Clementina Acedo holds a Licenciatura en Sociologia (1982) from Universidad Católica Andrés Bello (Caracas, Venezuela), an MA in International Development Education (1984), an MA in Philosophy (1988) and a PhD in International Comparative Education (1997), all from Stanford University.
Since 2001, Ms Acedo has been a Professor and Co-Director of the Institute for International Studies in Education at the University of Pittsburgh, USA. Previously she worked as the National Director of a UNDP Social Development Programme in Venezuela, then as Researcher, International Consultant and Professor at a Research and Public Policy Institute (Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Administración-IESA) in Caracas and as Education Specialist at the World Bank. Ms Acedo was the Director of the IBE from 2007 to 2014.