About Raúl Valdés-Cotera

Raúl Valdés-Cotera is Team Leader at the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning and manager of the UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities. For more than fifteen years, he has been working in international organisations in the field of public policies, lifelong learning and adult education. He has led various research and advocacy projects such as the Regional Report of Adult Education in Latin America (2007), the Conceptual Evolution and Policy Developments in Lifelong Learning (2011), the Glossary for Adult Education (2013), Unlocking the Potential of Urban Communities (2015 & 2017) and the Handbook for Lifelong Learning (2020). Before joining UIL in 2008, he was Deputy Director of the Center for Regional Cooperation for Adult Education in Latin America and the Caribbean (CREFAL). Previously, he worked as an assistant professor in the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education. Raúl holds a doctorate in Education from the Ibero-American University.