Eduardo Velez Bustillo

Background

About Eduardo Velez Bustillo

Eduardo Velez has a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Illinois. His field of study was Applied Social Statistics. His areas of interest include Sociology of Social and Economic Development, Economics of Education, and Analysis and Evaluation of Development Programs. Dr. Velez had a long trajectory at the World Bank in Washington D.C, Mexico City and in Beijing. He was Education Sector Manager for East Asia and the Pacific, and Education Sector Manager for Latin American and the Caribbean; Sector Coordinator (Human Development) for the China program; Sector Leader (Human and Social Development for Colombia, Mexico and Venezuela); and Human Development Cluster Leader for Uganda and Tanzania. He also served as Principal Education Specialist for Eastern and Southern Africa. Before joining the World Bank, Dr. Velez was Adjunct Director at Instituto Ser de Investigación in Bogotá, Colombia, his country of origin. Dr. Velez has also held an academic career. He has been a Visiting Professor at the following institutions: Peking University, Fudan University and Beijing Normal University in China; Georgetown University, Brown University and the University of Connecticut in USA; and Universidad Nacional, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Universidad Pedagógica Nacional, and at the Universidad de los Andes, all in Bogotá, Colombia. Currently he is a Visiting Professor at Kobe University in Kobe. He has also done consulting for several institutions including, the IDRC, CAF, Varkey Foundation, Copenhagen Consensus Center, Inter-American Dialogue, World Bank, and FHI 360. Dr. Velez has written extensively on the subjects of Economics, Education, Development and Sociology (has published eleven books and more than 100 articles in professional journals or as chapters in books, and research reports).