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Marco Antonio Fernandez Martinez

Fellow Public Policy Fellow

    Term

    June 1, 2015 — July 31, 2015

    Professional affiliation

    Research Professor, Escuela de Gobierno y Politica Pública

    Wilson Center Projects

    “The Challenges of Curbing Corruption: Structural Reforms and Good Governance in Mexico”

    Full Biography

    Marco Antonio Fernández is a research professor in the School of Government at Tec de Monterrey and a researcher associate at Mexico Evalúa. He specializes in political economy, particularly on education policy, decentralization, clientelism, transparency, corruption and the challenges of good governance. He received his B.A. in Political Science at ITAM, Mexico. He has a M.A. and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Duke University. He was fellow at the Center for U.S. – Mexican Studies from 2010 to 2011. He has worked as a consultant for different international organizations, including the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, the OECD and the Economic Social Council from United Nations. He has worked as an adviser in the Mexican Congress and Senate, as well as has served as senior adviser for the Office of the President and for the Education Minister in Mexico. He is currently working on different research projects, including (1) the politics of education reform in Mexico, (2) the challenges of fiscal transparency in emerging economies and its role to curb the abuse of public budgets, and (3) an analysis of the institutions in charge of fighting corruption in Mexico.

    Major Publications

     

    "Los desafíos de la implementación de la reforma educativa y la perspectiva estatal” in Las reformas y los estados México D.F. Ed. IMCO 2014

     

     

    "El censo educativo: radiografía del dispendio presupuestal”. Mexico City: México Evalúa 2014

     

     

    "Managing the politics of education reform" in Great Teachers: How to Raise Student Learning in Latin America and Caribbean World Bank 2014