About Santiago Cueto

Santiago Cueto has a degree in Educational Psychology from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru and a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from the University of Indiana, United States. He has been a visiting scholar at the University of California at Davis and at the University of Oxford. He is currently the Principal Investigator of GRADE, from where he is the representative for Peru of the international study Young Children of the Millennium . He is also a senior professor in the Department of Psychology at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. He was a member of the National Council of Education (CNE), of the Technical Council of the National Institute for the Evaluation of Education (INEE) of Mexico, President of the Peruvian Educational Research Society (SIEP) and Executive Secretary of the Research Fund for Education. of the Program for the Promotion of Educational Reform in Latin America and the Caribbean (Inter-American Dialogue). He has been a consultant to international organizations such as the Inter-American Development Bank, the World Bank and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). His main areas of interest are education and human development, particularly in contexts of poverty. He has published his articles in several academic journals and books and has been a reviewer of scientific articles in The Lancet, International Journal of Educational Development, Journal of Psychology of the Catholic University, World Development and Children and Society, among others. In 2003, at the annual conference of the Global Development Network (GDN), one of his papers was awarded the medal for best research in the Education, Knowledge and Technology category. In 2010, he received the National Prize for Psychology from the National College of Psychologists of Peru. In 2016, he was named a distinguished alumnus of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. In 2018, he was decorated by the Ministry of Education with the Palmas Magisteriales in the degree of Amauta.