Fernando Reimers

Who is Fernando Reimers?

Fernando M. Reimers is the Ford Foundation Professor of International Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He is also the Director of the International Education Policy Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Reimers is a fellow of the International Academy of Education and member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is also a member of the Middle East and North Africa Advisory Group of the World Economic Forum and a member of the United States National Commission for UNESCO. He serves on the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education.

He is currently serving on the Global Learning Leadership Council of the American Association of Colleges and Universities Project “General Education for a Global Century” focusing on some of the pressing issues related to global learning and undergraduate education. As co-chair of Harvard’s Advanced Leadership Initiative, he leads an Education Think Tank which convenes global education leaders to discuss solutions to aligning education systems with the development of 21st century skills.