Beatriz Pont

Senior Analyst
Directorate for Education and Skills, OECD

Dr. Beatriz Pont is a Senior Analyst on Education Policy in the OECD Education Directorate. At the OECD since 1999, she has focused on education policy issues, except for a year that she spent in the Secretary General’s cabinet studying political economy of reform across OECD countries. She has managed and contributed to a range of education policy comparative reviews in the area of school improvement, school leadership, equity, adult learning and adult skills, among others (Equity and Quality in Education: Supporting Disadvantaged Students and Schools (2012); Improving Lower Secondary Education in Norway (2011); Improving Schools in Mexico (2010); Improving School Leadership (2008); Promoting Adult learning (2008)). Previously Beatriz was a researcher on education, training and active labour market policies at the Economic and Social Council of the Government of Spain and worked for Andersen Consulting in Barcelona. Beatriz has a B.A. in Political Science from Pitzer College, Claremont, California, holds a M.Sc. in International Affairs from Columbia University, and was a research fellow at the Institute of Social Science in Tokyo University.

Publications:

ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Beatriz_Pont 

Pont, B., Nusche, D. & Moorman, H. (2021). Improving school leadership. Case studies on system leadership. Policy and practice. Vol.1, 2

Gouëdard, P., Pont, B., Hyttinen, S. & Huang, P. (2020). Curriculum reform: A literature review to support effective implementation. doi: 10.1787/efe8a48c-en