Aaron Benavot

Aaron Benavot is Professor of Global Education Policy in the School of Education at the University at Albany-SUNY with interests in comparative education research and international education policies (www.albany.edu/epl/). He recently worked as a Fulbright Specialist in Viet Nam (2018) and a High-Level Expert at the East China Normal University in Shanghai, PRC (2019-2020). During 2014-2017 Aaron served as Director of the Global Education Monitoring Report, an independent, evidence-based annual report published by UNESCO, which analyzes progress towards international education targets in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. (sustainabledevelopment.un.org/post2015/transformingourworld) 

Aaron's scholarship explores education issues from comparative, global and critical perspectives. Specifically, he has examined the historical expansion of primary education; the prolongation of compulsory schooling; the globalization of curricular policies; the diversification of secondary education; school differences in curricular implementation; the changing status of vocational education; the spread of national learning assessments and the emergence of global learning metrics; the conceptualization of adult literacy; the monitoring of adult education and lifelong learning; teacher enactment of mathematics curricula; the role of structured democratic voice in educational accountability; and the mainstreaming of education for global citizenship and sustainable development in policies and curricula. Aaron has co-authored or co-edited six books: School Knowledge for the Masses (with Meyer and Kamens); Law and the Shaping of Public Education (Tyack and James); Global Educational Expansion (Resnik and Corrales); School Knowledge in Comparative and Historical Perspective (Braslavsky); PISA, Power, and Policy (with H-D Meyer). He is a co-convener of NISSEM (nissem.org), which recently published a special volume entitled: NISSEM Global Briefs: Educating for the social, the emotional and the sustainable.
 
Aaron previously taught at the University of Georgia and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and has been a visiting professor at universities in Argentina, Japan, Germany, Italy, Malta, France and China. He has given talks and keynote presentations in more than 40 countries worldwide. He has been a consortium and lead partner in, and evaluator of, EU-sponsored socio-economic research. In 2007 he was elected to the CIES Board of Directors and later served as CER Co-Editor and CIES Secretary. He currently serves on the advisory or editorial boards of a dozen education and social science journals.
Phone: +1-518-442-5299
Address: Aaron Benavot
Dept of Educational Policy and Leadership/ School of Education
University at Albany, State University of New York
1400 Washington Avenue
Albany, New York
12222 USA