OREALC/UNESCO Santiago is the Regional Bureau for Education in Latin America and the Caribbean. It was established in 1963 with the purpose of supporting Member States improve their education systems, in the firm conviction that education is a life-long human right.
Our mission
To lead, monitor and provide technical support to the countries of the region through each of its lines of action to advance the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goal 4 - Education 2030, with the involvement of other UNESCO offices and institutes, and with the participation of strategic partners.
Strategic functions
- Lead policy dialogue among educational authorities in the region and other relevant key stakeholders, in order to establish agendas and priorities for the advancement and monitoring of the Education 2030 Agenda.
- Lead and nurture high-level technical dialogue on education in the region.
- Provide specialized and contextualized technical collaboration for capacity building, and for the development of policies aimed at fulfilling the commitments adopted within the framework of the Education 2030 Agenda.
- Develop standards, issue recommendations and guidelines, and promote compliance with the agreements signed by Member States under the framework of international conventions on the right to education.
- Position and incorporate education as a cross-cutting issue in intersectoral and inter-agency initiatives, under the framework of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
- Follow up and report on progress in the implementation of the Education 2030 Agenda, through the monitoring of educational indicators in the region and the comparative evaluation of learning achievements.
Representation
Representation
Ms. Claudia Uribe Salazar
Director of Regional Bureau and Representative in Chile
+56 (2) 2472 46 00
Questions, Public information and the Press
Questions, Public information and the Press
Ms. Carolina Jerez Henríquez
Journalist. Knowledge Management.
+56 (2) 2472 46 07
MOBILE: +56992890175
Mr. Sergio Pinto
Consultant. Communications & Culture. Knowledge Management.
Mr. Valtencir M. Mendes
Senior Education Programme Specialist. Chief of Education.
Ms. Mary Guinn Delaney
UNESCO Regional Advisor, Education for Health and Well-Being for Latin America and the Caribbean. Head of Education Transformative Section
Mr. Alejandro Vera Mohorade
Education Programme Specialist. Chief of Education Monitoring and Planning Unit
Ms. Carolina Belalcázar
Chief of Unit on Quality and Lifelong Learning
Mr. Ramón Iriarte
Education Programme Specialist. Unit on Quality and Lifelong Learning
Mr. Carlos Henríquez Calderón
Adviser to the director. General coordinator, Latin American Laboratory for Assessment of the Quality of Education (LLECE)
Mr. Nicolás del Valle
Associate programme coordinator. Culture, Science and Communication & Information Sector. Transformative Education Section
Mr. Francisco Gatica
Educational Research Specialist. Latin American Laboratory for Assessment of the Quality of Education (LLECE)
Mr. Carlos Cayumán
Specialist in Educational Measurement and Assessment. Latin American Laboratory for Assessment of the Quality of Education (LLECE)
Ms. Florencia Saffirio
Regional strategy for UNESCO's response to the situation of people on the move in Latin America and the Caribbean 2019-2021. Transformative Education Section
Ms. Ximena Rubio Vargas
Assistant researcher. Unit on Quality and Lifelong Learning
Mr. Cristián Bravo
Associate programme coordinator. Education for Sustainable Development and Citizenship Education. Transformative Education Section
Mr. Diego Paz
Consultant. Regional strategy for UNESCO's response to the situation of people on the move in Latin America and the Caribbean 2022-2025 and education for health and well-being
Mr. Maximiliano Tham
Associate programme coordinator. Education Monitoring and Planning Unit.
Mr. Ernesto Yañez
Consultant. Regional Monitoring Framework for students in a situation of mobility
Mr. Nicolás Rojas Inostroza
Assistant Specialist of the Education and Culture program
Ms. Denise Salvadores
Programme Assistant. Latin American Laboratory for Assessment of the Quality of Education (LLECE)