Vanessa Shadoian

Analyst

Vanessa coordinates the upcoming International Conference on “Learning in the 21st Century: Research, Innovation, and Policy” (link coming soon), which will aim to address a number of present and upcoming issues related to learning through discussion of the knowledge base on its various facets, including recent CERI analyses on: Alternative Models of Learning, Learning Sciences and Brain Research and New Millennium Learners.

She has also joined the Schooling for Tomorrow team: a major CERI project, developing and sharing futures thinking in education.

Prior to this, she was a researcher on CERI's external evaluation of the Youth Empowerment Partnership Programme (YEPP) which brought together public, private and independent sectors to improve outcomes for at-risk youth.

At the OECD, she previously worked on social innovation activities in the Local Economic and Employment Development programme. 

She has done research on public-private partnerships in youth employment initiatives in West Africa at the UN subregional office in Dakar. She has also worked on access to education issues at UNESCO headquarters.

Vanessa did her undergraduate studies in political economy and economic development at the State University of New York and Universíté de Paris IX-Dauphine. She completed her graduate studies at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and Sciences-Po Paris, where she focussed mainly on social policy and sociology of education.