Andreas Schleicher - Head of the Indicators and Analysis Division (Directorate for Education)

 

Mail address: 2, rue André Pascal, 75775 Paris Cedex 16, France
Office address : Level 22, Tour Europe, La Défense, Paris
Phone : +33 1 4524 9366
Email : Andreas.Schleicher@OECD.org

 

As Division Head, Andreas Schleicher’s responsibilities include directing the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) and the OECD Indicators of Education Systems programme (INES) and steering the development of new projects such as the OECD Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) and the OECD Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC).

 

At the OECD, Andreas Schleicher has also held the posts of Deputy Head of the Statistics and Indicators Division in the former Directorate for Education, Employment, Labour and Social Affairs (1997-2002) and Project Manager in the OECD Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI) (1994-1996). Before joining the OECD, he served as Director for Analysis at the International Association for Educational Achievement (IEA) within the Institute for Educational Research in the Netherlands (1993-1994) and International Co-ordinator for the IEA Reading Literacy Study, at the University of Hamburg, Germany (1989-1992). Originally a graduate in physics, he subsequently studied mathematics at Deakin University in Australia, where his master's thesis received the Bruce Choppin Award.

 

In 2003, Andreas Schleicher was awarded the "Theodor Heuss" prize, named after the first president of the German Federal Republic of Germany, for "exemplary democratic engagement" in association with the public debate on PISA. He also holds an honorary professorship at the University of Heidelberg in Germany. In 2002, Andreas Schleicher was awarded the "educación y libertad en el ámbito educativo" prize by the Spanish national association of private schools.

 

A German citizen, Andreas Schleicher is married, with three children. He speaks German, English, Italian, French and Spanish.

 

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