Fernando M. Reimers focuses his research and teaching on innovative global education policies and programs that help students develop twenty first century skills. He is also interested in programs that support the development of global competency.

He teaches a graduate course that examines the core global education challenges and the role of policy analysis in addressing them, and a course that studies innovative education programs and the role of social entrepreneurs in generating and scaling up change. He also chairs an annual Think Tank that examines state of the art practices and programs to help students gain global competency.

He also teaches courses on education policy and educational innovation online through Harvard Extension School. He is a co-chair of Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative.

Current research includes studying the effectiveness of a program to promote youth entrepreneurship in the Middle East, the effectiveness of programs to develop education leadership to promote twenty first century skills in Brazil and a global initiative to study innovative programs to develop twenty first century skills.

Publications and more information about his academic work is available on Fernando Reimer's website.

He is a member of the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education, the Council of Foreign Relations, a Fellow of the International Academy of Education, as well as a member of the United States National Commission for UNESCO. 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. He serves on the board of several educational organizations and foundations.

Degrees

• Ed.D., Harvard University

• Reimers, F. (2012). “Innovative Universities” Revista. David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. Harvard University. Fall 2012. (2012)
• Reimers, F., N. Cooc and J. Hashmi. 2012. Adapting Innovations Across Borders to Close Equity Gaps in Education. In Hyman, J. (Ed). Increasing Equity in Education. Oxford University Press. (2012)
• Reimers, F. (2010) “Pathways for Change. Educational Innovation in Latin America” Americas Quarterly. Fall 2010. (2010)
• Reimers, F. (2010). Education au cosmopolitisme et à la paix. Raisons Educatives, Vol. 14. (2010)
• Reimers, F. and C. Chung. (2010) “Teaching Human Rights in times of Peace and Conflict”. Development. 53(4) (2010)
• Reimers, F. and S. Cardenas. Youth Civic Engagement in Mexico. In Torney-Purta, J. et al. (Editors). 2010. International Handbook of Youth Civic Engagement. John Wiley and Sons. (2010)
• Reimers, F. “Building Entrepreneurial Organizations to make learning in school relevant” Innovations 2010 vol 5, 2. 53-56. (2010)
• Reimers, F. Educating for Global Competency. In Cohen, J. and M. Malin (Editors). 2009. International Perspectives on the Goals of Universal Basic and Secondary Education Routlege Press. (2009)
• Reimers, F. “Enlightening Globalization. An Opportunity for Continuing Education” Continuing Higher Education Review.September 2009 (volume 73). (2009)
• Reimers, F. and F. Knaul. Mexico. In Epstein, Irving (Editor). 2008. The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Children's Issues Worldwide. (2008)
• Reimers, F. and J. Jacobs. 2008. Leer (Comprender y Aprender ) y Escribir para Comunicarse. Desafios y Oportunidades para los Sistemas Educativos. Madrid. Editorial Santillana. (2008)
• Reimers, F. and S. Cardenas “Who benefits from School Based Management in Mexico.” Prospects. March 2007. (2007)
• Reimers, F. “Civic education when democracy is in flux: The impact of empirical research on policy and practice in Latin America.” Citizenship and Teacher Education Vol 3, No. 2, December 2007. (2007)
• Reimers, F. “Citizenship, Identity and Education. Examining the Public Purposes of Schools in an Age of Globalization” Prospects. Vol. XXXVI, No 3. September 2006. (2006)
• Reimers, F. (Ed.) 2006. Aprender Mas y Mejor. Politicas, Programas y Oportunidades de Aprendizaje en Educacion Basica en Mexico. Fondo de Cultura Economica. México City. (2006)
• Reimers, F. and E. Villegas-Reimers. Educating democratic citizens in Latin America. In Kagan, J. and L. Harrington (Eds.) Essays in Cultural Change. Pp 95-114. Routledge. 2006. (2006)
• Reimers, F. Principally Women. Gender in the Politics of Mexican Education. In Randall, L. (ed.) The Changing Structure of Mexico. Pp. 278-294. M.E. Sharpe Publishers. 2006. (2006)
• Reimers, F. Social Progress in Latin America. Victor Bulmer-Thomas and John Coatsworth (Eds.). Cambridge Economic History of Latin America. Vol II. Pp. 427-480. Cambridge University Press. 2006. (2006)
• Reimers, F. “Teaching Quality Matters. Pedagogy and Literacy Instruction of Poor Students in Mexico” Harvard Education Review. 2006. (2006)
• “Principally Women,” in The Changing Structure of Mexico (ed. by L. Randall) (2005)
• Reimers, F. “War, Education and Peace” Prospects. Vol. XXXIII, no 1. March 2003. (2003)
• "The Social Context of Educational Evaluation in Latin America," in International Handbook of Educational Evaluation (ed. by D. Nevo and D. Stufflebeam) (2003)
• Reimers, F. Compensatory Education Policies and Programs in Latin America. In Guthrie, J. (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Education, Second Edition. Macmillan Publishers. (2002)
• Unequal Schools, Unequal Chances: The Challenges to Equal Opportunity in the Americas at the End of the XX Century, Spanish translation available (2000)
• "Educational Chances of the Poor at the End of the XX century," Prospects (1999)
• "Educational Opportunities for Low-Income Families in Latin America," Prospects (1999)
• "Education and Structural Adjustment: Unmet Needs and Missed Opportunities," in Education and Development: Tradition and Innovation (ed. by J. Lynch, C. Modgil, and S. Modgil) (1997)
• Informed Dialogue: Changing Education Policies Around the World, Spanish translation available (with N. McGinn) (1997)
• Reimers, F. "Changing schools through participatory knowledge management in El Salvador: Can education systems learn?" in Chapman, D., L. Mahlck and A. Smulders (Eds.) From planning to action: Government initiatives to improve school level practice. London: Elsevier. 1997. (1997)
• "Where are 60 Million Teachers? The Missing Voice in Educational Reforms Around the World," Prospects (with E. Villegas-Reimers) (1996)
• Hope or Despair? Primary Education in Pakistan (with D. Warwick) (1995)
• Education, Adjustment and Reconstruction: Options for Change, Spanish and French translations available (with L. Tiburcio) (1993)

• Advisory Board, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Academy of Sciences (2006-present)
• Advisory Board, Primary Source (2006-present)
• Board of Scholars, Facing History and Ourselves (2006-present)
• Member, Council on Foreign Relations (2006-present)
• Chair, Mexico Studies Committee, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University (2004-present)
• Editorial Board, Fundamentals of Educational Planning, International Institute for Educational Planning, UNESCO,(Paris, France) (2004-present)
• Advisory Board, World Computer Exchange (2002-present)
• Faculty Associate, Center for International Development, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University (2002-present)
• College of Fellows, International Bureau of Education, UNESCO (Geneva) (1999-present)
• Executive Committee, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University (1998-present)
• Member, Advisory Board for the Inter-American Program on Education for Democratic Values and Practices, Organization of American States (2006-2010)
• Member, National Academy of Sciences, Panel Review of Title VI and Fulbright-Hays International Education Program (2006-2010)
• Cochair, Global Education Advisory Board, Massachusetts Department of Education (2005-2010)
• Advisory Board of Room to Read (2009-)
• Board of Overseers of the Boston Museum of Science (2009-)
• World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Education (2009-)
• Fellow, International Academy of Education (2007-)
• Advisory Board of the Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education at the National Academy of Sciences (2006-)
• Advisory Board of the Federal Institute for the Evaluation of the Quality of Education in Mexico (2006-)
• Advisory Board for the Inter-American Program on Education for Democratic Values and Practices at the Organization of American States (2005-)
• Council of Foreign Relations (2005-)
• Fellow of the International Academy of Education (2005-)

• Global Education
  
• Education Leadership
  
• Twenty First Century Skills
  
• Educational Innovation
  
• Education Policy
  
• Comparative Education
  

• Preparing High Quality Education Leaders for the Improvement of Education Quality in Brazil, Universidad Federal de Juiz de Fora, (2008-2011)
  The project we are proposing, to be developed as a collaboration between Harvard University and the Universidad Federal de Juiz de Fora, fills these gaps. This is a research-based project to develop a high quality program of school leadership. By school leadership we refer to the role played by school principals in sustaining school based instructional improvement as well as to the role played by school supervisors and their teams at the regional level who work with principals. The project generates a scientific knowledge base on the practice of leadership as it relates to school effectiveness, it will also study the responses of principals and school teams to various approaches of instructional improvement. Using a variety of research methodologies, including large scale sample surveys, case studies and quasi experimental research, the project fills a significant knowledge gap on what principals know and do and how it relates to instructional improvement. This knowledge, and state of the art international research based knowledge on instructional leadership, provides the intellectual foundation for the design of a two year professional masters program to prepare a new cadre of school leaders. The impact of this program is rigorously evaluated using social science methods.

• A-132   Educational Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship in Comparative Perspective (Spring 2013)
• A-801   Education Policy Analysis and Research in Comparative Perspective (Fall 2012)
• A-802   Intensive Preparation for the Study of International Education (Noncredit Course) (Summer 2012)
• A-802   Intensive Preparation for the Study of International Education (Noncredit Course) (Summer 2013)

• At-Risk Youth
• Curriculum Development
• Educational Equity
• International Education
• Leadership
• Minorities
• Policy Analysis and Evaluation
• Politics of School Structure and Governance
• Poverty and Children
• Principalship
• Reform Issues
• Teachers and Teachers' Unions

Reimers writes an article for Ed. magazine on the anniversary of the the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

An announcement on Fernando Reimers being elected as an overseer to the Boston Museum of Science.