Santiago Cueto Caballero
Santiago Cueto holds a degree in Educational Psychology from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru and a PhD in the same field from Indiana University in the United States. He has been a Visiting Researcher at the University of California at Davis and the University of Oxford. He is currently a Senior Researcher at GRADE, where he coordinates the Peru component of the international study Young Lives/Niños del Milenio. He is also a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the Catholic University in Peru.
He has been a member of the National Council for Education, Technical Board of the National Institute for Educational Assessment (INEE) in Mexico, President of the Peruvian Educational Research Society and Executive Secretary of the Educational Research Fund of the Inter-American Dialogue (Latin American Education Reform Program). He has worked as a consultant to international organizations such as the Inter-American Development Bank, the World Bank and UNESCO.
His main areas of interest are education and human development, particularly within a poverty context. He has published articles in various academic journals as well as books and has also served as Editor for scientific articles at The Lancet, the International Journal of Educational Development, the Catholic University’s Psychology Journal, World Development, Children and Society, among others.
In 2003, at the Global Development Network’s (GDN) Annual Conference, one of his works received the prize for best research project in the Education, Knowledge and Technology category. This study was later published as GRADE Research Paper 43. In 2010, he received the National Award in Psychology by the Professional Board of Psychologists in Peru (Colegio Nacional de Psicólogos). In 2016, he was appointed as distinguished alumni from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. In 2018, he received the Magisterial Palms in the degree of Amauta by the Ministry of Education of Peru.
