This post is also available in: Español

Santiago Cueto is the executive director and principal investigator at Grupo de Análisis para el Desarrollo (GRADE), and is a professor in the Department of Psychology at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. He was a member of the National Council of Education (CNE), of the Technical Council of the National Institute for the Evaluation of Education (INEE) of Mexico, president of the Peruvian Educational Research Society (SIEP), and executive secretary of the Research Fund for Education of the Program for the Promotion of Educational Reform in Latin America and the Caribbean (Inter-American Dialogue). He has been a consultant to international organizations such as the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), the World Bank, and the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

At the 2003 Global Development Network (GDN) annual conference he was awarded the medal for best research in the Education, Knowledge, and Technology category. In 2010, he received the National Prize for Psychology from the National College of Psychologists of Peru. In 2016, he was named a distinguished alumnus of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. In 2018, he was decorated by the Ministry of Education with the Palmas Magisteriales in the degree of Amauta.

Cueto is an educational psychologist from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and a doctor in educational psychology from the University of Indiana, United States. He has been a visiting scholar at the University of California at Davis and at Oxford University.

Cueto was an event speaker at the Dialogue.