Gustavo Faúndez

Gustavo Faúndez is a doctoral student at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, specializing in Education Policy and Program Evaluation. He studies students’ transitions from high school to higher education and the workforce, with a focus on affirmative action, admissions criteria, role models, and determinants of career choice.

Before beginning his doctoral studies, Gustavo worked at the Chilean Ministry of Education, where he helped design and implement nationwide higher education admissions reforms, including new admissions tests, scoring methodologies, and equity initiatives. He also co-founded Sembrando un Sueño, a nonprofit organization that has supported students from dozens of public schools in pursuing higher education.

Most recently, Gustavo was a research fellow at the Harvard Project on Workforce and a research intern at UNESCO’s International Institute for Educational Planning. He holds a Master of Public Policy from Harvard Kennedy School and degrees in economics from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.