Alberto Rodriguez, a Colombian national, joined the World Bank in 1997. He is a Lead Education Specialist working with the Europe and Central Asia Region.
He has worked on system-wide educational reform issues with particular emphasis on their effects on schools.He has led the policy dialogue and has been Project Manager for World Bank education activities in Brazil, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Trinidad and Tobago, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, and Bolivia, and has consulted in the past in the United States, Ecuador, England, Canada, Singapore, and Argentina, among others. His interests and experience are in educational administration and management, specifically in issues such as financing of education systems, decentralization, school-based strategic development, and secondary education- both general and vocational/technical. Prior to joining the World Bank, Dr. Rodriguez was a school teacher and administrator for 7 years, was an administrator in a private Bank in Bogotá- Colombia for 2 years, worked at the High/Scope Educational Research Foundation as Fellow and as Director of the Adolescent Division, and was the Technical Director (functions of Vice-Minister) of the Ministry of Education in Colombia. Over his career, Dr. Rodriguez has published numerous articles. His publications include “Knowledge and Innovation for Competitiveness in Brazil” (2007); “The Challenge of School Autonomy: Supporting Principals”(2003), and a Chapter in Sage’s recently published Handbook of Applied Developmental Science called “Positive Youth Development in the Context of National Development: The Emerging Youth Agenda in the Dominican Republic”(2003).
Other publications include “Educação Secundaria no Brasil: Chegou a Hora”(2000), “Los Insumos Escolares en la Educación Secundaria y su Efecto Sobre el Rendimiento Académico de los Estudiantes” (1998) and “The Effects of Institutional Factors on School Engagement among Students in Middle-level Schools” (1996). Dr. Rodriguez holds a BS in Industrial Engineering, a MA in Educational Administration, a Master in Public Administration, and a Ph.D. in Educational Policy and Administration from the University of Michigan. |
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