Events
Conferences
Throughout the 2025-26 academic year, under the leadership of Professor of Practice Emiliana Vegas, ELLA has brought together HGSE students and alumni, Harvard College students, and practitioners based in Venezuela and in the United States to co-create a strategy to build the foundations for an education system that provides every Venezuelan the opportunities to acquire the skills, competencies and dispositions to reach their full potential. This conference is part of the initiative "Education: A Key Pillar for Venezuela’s Transformation."
Beyond Oil: Education for Growth, Inclusion, and Human Flourishing in Venezuela
May 12, 2026
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All day
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Askwith Auditorium
Join us at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) for Beyond Oil: Education for Growth, Inclusion, and Human Flourishing in Venezuela, a one-day conference hosted by the Education Lab for Latin America (ELLA). On Tuesday, May 12, 2026, from 9:00...
Latam Education Talks
Every month, ELLA organizes for its students talks by education experts in Latin America.
Juan Saavedra - Improving Agency by Improving Mental Health for Adolescents in Colombia
March 11, 2026
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2:00PM - 3:00PM EDT
Our guest speaker was Juan E. Saavedra, Lecturer in Public Policy at HKS, a faculty affiliate at CID and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Dr. Saavedra currently teaches the economics sequence in the MPP core...
Juan Ariel Jiménez - Teacher policies: lessons from the Dominican Republic
February 18, 2026
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4:00PM - 5:00PM EST
Our guest speaker was Juan Ariel Jimenez, Professor at the Harvard Kennedy School. He is an economist with a master's degree in Public Administration in International Development (MPA/ID) from Harvard University and a master's degree in Infrastructure...
Susana Claro - School accountability and socio-emotional learning in Chile
November 18, 2025
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5:30PM - 6:30PM EST
Our guest speaker was Susana Claro, Chen Yidan Visiting Fellow, who will also be teaching the Fall 2 course "A811C5: Building Policy: Three Chilean Case Studies, from Nonprofits and Government, in Policy Development". Susana Claro is an associate...
Thiago Alves - Public school costs and teachers' working conditions in Brazil
November 5, 2025
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3:00AM - 4:00AM EST
Our guest speaker was Thiago Alves, visiting scholar at HGSE this year. Thiago is an adjunct professor of Public Administration at Federal University of Goias in Brazil. He teaches Education Finance, Public Policy and Educational Data Analysis courses on...
Alejandro Ganimian - How to Increase School Attendance at Scale? Descriptive, Correlational, and Experimental Evidence from Argentina
October 15, 2025
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3:00AM - 4:00AM EDT
Our guest speaker was Alejandro Ganimian, Visiting Associate Professor of Education at HGSE, who will also be teaching the course Economics of Education in Low- and Middle-Income Countries this coming spring. Prof. Ganimian is an Associate Professor of...