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Simon Field has worked since 2001 in the Directorate for Education, OECD on issues including vocational education and training, equity in education, and human capital. His previous career in the UK civil service included a period heading the division for higher education, evaluation and international issues in the Department for Education and Skills. While in the Home Office he was responsible for creating and leading an Economics Unit, bringing the tools of economic analysis to bear on criminal justice issues. He holds a Ph.D. in philosophy and social policy from the University of Cambridge and an M.Sc. in Economics from Birkbeck College London. He was born and brought up in Belfast and holds joint British/Irish citizenship.
Kathrin Hoeckel is a policy analyst in the OECD Directorate for Education. She is responsible for country reviews of Australia, Austria, Germany, the UK (England and Wales) and Switzerland and for analytical work on costs and benefits in VET. Prior to this activity, Kathrin worked on the issue of school leadership (Improving School Leadership, 2008) and took part in writing the final comparative report and disseminating the findings of a thematic review on adult learning (Promoting Adult Learning, 2005) at the OECD. Before joining the OECD, she worked in the field of development cooperation, inspecting and evaluating development projects of local NGOs in Morocco (including on special education and vocational education and training) and carried out a research project with field visits on post-war reconstruction and state-building in Lebanon. Kathrin holds a M.Sc. in history and political science from Munich University (Germany) and a Master’s degree in public administration from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Kathrin is of German nationality.
Viktoria Kis is a policy analyst at the OECD Directorate for Education, where she works on 'Learning for Jobs' - the OECD programme of work on Vocational Education and Training. She is responsible for country reviews of Belgium (Flanders), Hungary, Ireland, Mexico and the United States (Texas) and for analytical work on the quality of VET. Prior to this project, she worked on the Thematic Review of Tertiary Education and is the author of “Quality Assurance in Tertiary Education: Current Practices in OECD Countries and a Literature Review on Potential Effects”. Before joining the OECD as a consultant to the World Bank she worked on the evaluation of a school grant programme in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia. She also co-ordinated a meeting of the “Global Learning Network of Producer’ Organisations” at Rimisp – Latin American Centre for Rural Development in Chile. She holds a Master’s degree in International Affairs from Sciences Po Paris and an M.Sc. in Educational Research Methodology from the University of Oxford. She is a Hungarian and Vietnamese national.
Malgorzata Kuczera is a policy analyst in the OECD Directorate for Education where she works on 'Learning for Jobs' - the OECD programme of work on Vocational Education and Training. She is responsible for country reviews of the Czech Republic Korea, Norway, the United States (South Carolina) and Sweden and for analysis of the comparative characteristics of VET systems, and has presented the results of this work in many international contexts. Prior to this activity, she co-authored the OECD review of equity in education ‘No More Failures. Ten steps to Equity in Education’. She has an M.Sc. in political science from Jagellonian University, Poland, and a Master’s degree in International Administration from the University Paris I, Sorbonne-Panthéon. She is from Poland.
Jennifer Gouby has been working as an assistant in the OECD Directorate for Education since 2003. Firstly for the Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI) and since February 2008 for the Education and Training Policy Division where she works as an assistant for 'Learning for Jobs' - the OECD programme of work on Vocational Education and Training. Jennifer is of British nationality.
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