Research Officer

Paula Razquin received a Ph.D. in international comparative education from Stanford University and holds an M.A. in sociology and an M.A. in international educational administration and policy analysis from the same university. Before joining the GMR team in February 2006, she was a RAND/Spencer postdoctoral fellow in education policy where she worked on an impact evaluation of the two parental choice provisions of the U.S. No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act. She has acted as the director of the master’s program in social sciences in education and assistant professor in education in international and comparative perspective at the Stanford University School of Education, and has consulted for The World Bank, Research Triangle Institute, the Inter-American Development Bank, the Organization of American States, and federal, state and local government agencies. Dr. Razquin has written about teacher salary scales and job satisfaction, and education policy documents and reports for countries such as Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Nigeria, Mexico and Equatorial Guinea.

p.razquin(at)unesco.org