Nationality: Venezuelan
Functional degree: Full Professor
Center for Development Studies (CENDES), Universidad Central de Venezuela (UCV):
http://www.cendes-ucv.edu.ve/

Consultant
Higher Education Institut for Latin América and Caribbean (UNESCO/IESALC):
UNESCO/IESALC: http://www.iesalc.unesco.org.ve/

LANGUAGES
Spanish, French, English, some Portuguese

RESEARCH FOCUS
Comparative Higher Education in Latin America

CURRENT PROJECT
Latin American University Thinking

EDUCATION

Undergraduate:
• Psychology, Catholic University Andrés Bello, Caracas, 1970.

Graduate:
• Master in Developing Planning, Center for Development Studies, UCV, Cara¬cas, 1972
• Master in International Comparative Education, SIDEC, Stanford Univer¬sity, USA, 1975
• Doctorate in Educational Social Sciences, Univer¬sité René Des¬cartes, Paris V, France, 1984

MAIN PROFESIONAL ACTIVITIES

• 1984-1991: Researcher and Project Coordinator at UNESCO, Regional Center for Higher Education in Latin America (CRESALC-UNESCO)

• Since 1991: Researcher and Professor at the Center for Development Studies, Universidad Central de Venezuela.

Other Professional Activities 

 •  In Charge of the UNESCO Chair on Academic Thinking in Latin America.

• Director of the Center for Development Studies (CENDES), Universidad Central de Venezuela (2003-2006).

• Coordinator of the Doctorate Program in Development Studies, CENDES/Universidad Central de Venezuela (1994)

• Consultant at Unesco, World Bank, and OECD

• Visiting Scholar at Stanford University, USA; and at University of Kassel, Germany; and COLUMBUS, Paris.

• Professor in Postgraduate Programs in different Latin America countries: Universidad de Los Andes, Bogota; Universidad de Brasilia, Brazil; IGLU-Caribbean (Cuba, República Dominicana); Universidad de Comague, Universidad Nacional del Sur and Universidad de Tucumán, in Argentina; Universidad de Cuernavaca, México.

• Lectures in: Germany, France, South Africa, Spain, Mexico, Nicaragua, Puerto Rico, Colombia, Argentina, Dominican Republic, Bolivia, and Uruguay.

• Professor at the UNESCO Chair on Comparative Higher Education in Latin America

EVALUATION ACTIVITIES

• Evaluator of IESALC/UNESCO in Caracas (1994)

• Evaluator of FLACSO (Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences), Office in México, Cuba and Dominican Republic, 2000

• Member of the OECD International Experts Group, for the Thematic Review on Higher Education in México, 2006.

EDITORIAL RESPONSABILITIES

Director of the following magazines:

• (1996-2000) Director of the Review Cuadernos del CENDES, Universidad Central de Venezuela.

• (1984-1991): Editor-in-Chief of the UNESCO/CRESALC Review Higher Education and Society; and The Bulletin of Analytical Abstracts on Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean (the last one in three languages: Spanish, French and English).

Member of Editorial Councils in the following magazines and networks:

• Since 1994: Revista Pensamiento Universitario (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina)

• Since 1998: RISEU, Red de Investigadores en Educación Superior (México).
• Since 2000: Revista CIPEDES (Interdisciplinary Center for Higher Education Studies, Brazil).
• Since 2000: Revista Evaluacao, Brazil.
• 2004: Revista de Educación Superior, ANUIES, México.
• 1997-2000: Revista Perfiles Educativos (UNAM-México).

REWARDS AND OTHER DISTINTIONS

• National Reward in Social Sciences 2004, Ministry of Sciences and Technology, Venezuela

• Research Trajectory in Social Sciences Reward, (Francisco de Venanzy Reward) Universidad Central de Venezuela, 1996

• Best Publish Book in CENDES, 1996

• First place in the Research Stimulus Program in CENDES, UCV, 1997.

• Scholarships awarded: CENDES (1970-71); CONICIT (1973); OEA (1974); CDCH/UCV (1980-83)

CONGRESS, SEMINARS AND OTHER ACADEMIC EVENTS

More than 90 papers presented in Congress, Conferences and other events, especially in Latin America countries.

PUBLICATIONS

Books

1. Editor of Pensadores y Forjadores de la Universidad Latinoamericana (Thinkers and Makers of Latin America University), Edit. Unesco-Iesalc, Cendes, Bid & Co., Caracas, 2008. See contents

2. Tensiones y Transiciones. Educación superior latinoamericana en los albores del tercer milenio, (Tensions and Transitions. Latin America Higher Education in the Beginning of the Third Millennium), Edit Nueva Sociedad, Caracas (Two editions 2002 and 2005). See contents

3. (Coord.) El difícil equilibrio: la educación superior entre bien público y comercio de servicios. Implicaciones del GATS (The Difficult Equilibrium: Higher Education as a Public Good and Trade Services. Implications of GATS), Columbus, Paris (Three editions: Peru, 2002; Spain, 2004; Venezuela, 2005). See contents

4. Comparative Higher Education in Latin America. Quantitative View, UNESCO-IESALC, 2000, Caracas. Access to contents

5. Situación y principales dinámicas de transformación de la educación superior en América Latina. CRESALC/UNESCO, Caracas, (Situation and Main Transformations of Higher Education in Latin America. (Three editions: 1996; 1997 and 1998). Access to contents

6. Conocimiento, educación superior y sociedad en América Latina, Editorial Nueva Sociedad, Caracas, 1996 (Knowledge, Higher Education, and Society in Latin America). Access to contents

7. Producción y transferencia de paradigmas de investigación socioeducativa. El caso de América Latina, Edit. Tropykos, Caracas. (Production and Transfer of theories. The case of Latin America) (1ª. edic. 1987; 2a. Edit. 1995). Access to contents

Articles and chapters of books  See List