Javier Ergueta

Background

About Javier Ergueta

Javier is an international educator, entrepreneur, developer of critical thinking methodologies and climate activist. With a Bachelor's degree from Harvard College in Government and Philosophy, a diploma from the Johns Hopkins University Bologna Center, and an MBA from Stanford University, he developed a first career in international business. He was a consultant for McKinsey and Company and the Boston Consulting Group. He was then International Product Manager, Latin American Marketing Manager, and Senior Manager of Corporate Development and Strategic Investments for Apple Computer, based first in Cupertino and then in Paris, France. He subsequently founded and managed a Paris-based educational new media company, Hérisson, Fox & Co, and did educational strategy consulting for clients including Oracle's and Cisco's educational divisions in California. In 2001 he became a full-time teacher, and taught International Baccalaureate History, Global Politics, and Theory of Knowledge at Wilmington Friends School, one of the ten oldest schools in the USA, from 2002 to 2022. During 2018-19, he visited IB schools in eight European countries and Ghana, exploring best practices in integrating TOK into the school curriculum. Javier was selected as the 2018 History Teacher of the Year for Delaware by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. He was also chosen as one of Delaware's Top Teachers of 2022 by Delaware Today. In 2023, Javier moved long-term to Berlin, Germany, where he looks forward to continuing the climate activism that provided a focus for his personal and extra-curricular work in recent years.