Pablo Landoni Couture

Curriculum Vitae

Personal Data

Address:Av. 8 de Octubre 2738

Montevideo -URUGUAY CP 11600

Tel.:(598-2) 487.2717 ext. 338

Fax:(598-2) 487.2303

E.mail:

Citizenship: Uruguayan

Education

  • CornellUniversity - Ithaca, NY, USA
Master in Public Administration

Cornell Institute for Public Affairs (CIPA), August 1997 (GPA 4.02)

Concentration: Higher Education in Latin America.

Thesis:“Higher Education Reform in Uruguay: Efficiency, Equity and Quality as Policy Concerns”

Awards:

Full funding via Fulbright/LASPAU and Organization of American States (OAS) scholarships.

  • Universidad de la República – Montevideo, Uruguay

Law and SocialSciencesSchool

Lawyer, February, 1988

Law and Social Sciences Doctorate, May 1995

Positions Held

  • Vice Minister of Education and Culture – Montevideo, Uruguay

August 1992 - March 1995

  • Executive Director - National Information System – Ministry of Education and CultureMontevideo, Uruguay

August 1990 - August 1992

  • Director of Institutional Relations - Universitario Autónomo del Sur – Montevideo, Uruguay
October 1997 – August 1999
  • Director General of the Center for Graduate Studies - Universidad Católica del Uruguay – Montevideo, Uruguay

December 2003 – May 2005

  • Assistant to the Academic Vicerrector - Universidad Católica del Uruguay – Montevideo, Uruguay

September 1999 – to present

Organization and Board Memberships

  • Member of the Advisory Board for Private Higher Education - Ministry of Education and Culture – Montevideo, Uruguay
June 2005 – to present
  • Member of the ad hoc Accreditation Comisión for the Experimental Accreditation Mechanism of the MERCOSUR – Programs in Medicine Ministry of Education and Culture - Montevideo, Uruguay
June 2005 - Presente
  • Member of the Uruguayan Delegation to the Higher Education Commission of the MERCOSUR – Representing the Private Universities` Rectors Council – Montevideo, Uruguay

Several meetings from September 2000 to present.

  • President of the National Committee for the UNESCO - Ministry of Education and Culture Montevideo, Uruguay

August 1992 - March 1995

  • Student Representative – Central Board of Directors - Universidad de la RepúblicaMontevideo, Uruguay

September 1987 - February 1988

  • Student Representative – Law and Social Sciences School Board - Universidad de la RepúblicaMontevideo, Uruguay

March 1985 - September 1987

Research in Higher Education

  • Affiliated Scholar of the Program for Research on Private Higher Education (PROPHE) directed by Professor Daniel Levy - Department of Education Administration and Policy Studies - State University of New York at Albany

Albany, NewYork, USA

January 2003 – to present

  • “Fulbright New Century Scholar” in Higher Education – Distinguished Scholar Leader: Phillip Altbach (BostonCollege)

July 2005 – November 2006

  • Research Visit to University at Albany with the support of the Fulbright New Century Scholarship– PROPHE (Program for Research on Private Higher Education) Department of Education Administration and Policy Studies Director Daniel Levy – Guest faculty for the course “EAPS 752 PRIVATIZATION: Higher Education and Beyond” Spring 2006

Albany, NY, USA

January - March2006

InternationalOffices

  • President of the Inter-American Committee - Program “Common Market of Knowledge” (MERCOCYT) / OAS - WashingtonDC, USA

November 1993 - December 1994

Academic Positions

  • Researcher - Program of Studies in Higher Education (PRODES) Universidad Católica del Uruguay– Human Sciences School– Montevideo, Uruguay

October 2005 – to present

  • Professor of Public Policy and Thesis Advisor - Universidad Católica del Uruguay – Human Sciences School – Montevideo, Uruguay

July 2004 – to present

  • Professor of the Graduate Diploma in Human Rights and Political Participation (E-Learning) - Universidad Católica del Uruguay – Law School / Asociación de Universidad Jesuitas de América Latina (AUSJAL) Montevideo, Uruguay
Courses “State Reform and Political Reform” and “Human Rights, the State and Democracy”

March 2004 – to present

  • Professor of Political Science - Universidad Católica del Uruguay – Law School – Montevideo, Uruguay

July 2001 – July 2004

  • Coordinator of the Seminar "Quality Standards for Private Universities" – Universidad Católica del Uruguay - Consejo de Rectores de Universidades Privadas del Uruguay Montevideo, Uruguay

April – December 2002

  • Assistant Professor of Computers and Law - Universidad Católica del Uruguay – LawSchoolMontevideo, Uruguay

March 1992 – July 1995

  • Coordinator – Graduate Course Computer Science and Law - Universidad de la República/ UNISYS – Law SchoolMontevideo, Uruguay

March - November 1992

Project Experience

  • Consultant IESALC / UNESCO Program Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean Observatory – Study “Educación Superior Universitaria Privada en Uruguay” (Private Higher Education in Uruguay)

July 2005 – March 2006

  • Coordinator “Program for Project Design, Administration and Evaluation” –

Universidad Católica del Uruguay / Centro Latinoamericano de Economía Humana (CLAEH) / Inter American Development Bank (IADB) – Montevideo, Uruguay February 2001 – December 2003

  • Director “Program: Fortalecimiento del Mercado de Capacitación en el Uruguay” for “Fortalecimiento Curricular y de Gestión de las Escuelas Profesionales Talleres Don Bosco” Inter American Development Bank (IADB) – Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF) / Talleres Don Bosco –- Montevideo, Uruguay

November 1997 – June 2000

  • Executive Director “Common Market of Knowledge/UNESCO: Program Design for Academic Mobility” UNESCO / Ministry of Education and Culture (Uruguay) - Montevideo (Uruguay)

March - November 1993

  • Coordinator “Enhancing the National Information System” Organization of American States (OAS) / National Information System (Ministry of Education and Culture -Uruguay) –Montevideo, Uruguay

August 1990 - August 1992

Publications

LANDONI, Pablo. (2005) “New Private-Public Dynamics: Graduate Education in Uruguay” In Altbach, P. and Levy, D. eds. Private Higher Education: a Global Revolution Boston and Albany: BostonCollege (CIHE) and PROPHE.

LANDONI, Pablo (2004) “Uruguay: Educational System Regulation” in Charles Glenn and Jan de Groof Balancing Freedom, Autonomy and Accountability in Education vol. 3 Wolf Legal Publishers, Nijmegen.

LANDONI, Pablo y Luján, Carlos (2003) “Planeación, Autoevaluación y Acreditación de Instituciones de Educación Superior.” (Planning, Evaluation and Accreditation of Higher Education Institutions) Universidad Católica del Uruguay - “Simposio Permanente sobre la Universidad”– UCU, Montevideo (mimeo)

LANDONI, Pablo (2002) “Transformaciones en la Administración de Justicia: Impactos de las Tecnologías de la Información” (Justice Administration Reform: Impacts of Information Technologies) XVIII Jornadas Iberoamericanas de Derecho Procesal Instituto Iberoamericano de Derecho Procesal / Instituto Uruguayo de Derecho Procesal, Montevideo

ROMERO, Carlos y Landoni, Pablo (2001) “Educación Superior Uruguaya: del Monopolio a la Consolidación del Sistema” (Uruguay´s Higher Education: from Monopoly to System Consolidation) En: Sergio Martinic y Marcela Pardo Economía Política de las Reformas Educativas en América Latina CIDE/PREAL, Santiago de Chile.

LANDONI, Pablo (2000) “La Administración Pública Interpelada: la Internet al Servicio de los Ciudadanos” (Public Administration Defied: Internet helping citizens) in Foro Internacional sobre Ética en Internet. ANTEL, Montevideo

LANDONI, Pablo (1992) “Sistemas de Información en el Area Jurídica: la Experiencia de PROIN” (Information System in the Field of Law: the Experience of PROIN) in Revista Jurídica del Centro de Estudiantes de Derecho -No. 6 – FCU, Montevideo

LANDONI, Pablo (1991) “Nuevas Tecnologías como Instrumentos para la Transformación de la Justicia” (New Technologies as Instruments of Justice Reform) in VI Congreso Nacional de Derecho Procesal Edit. Universidad, Montevideo

LANDONI, Pablo (1987) “Notas para una Política de Cursos para la Facultad de Derecho y Ciencias Sociales” (Notes for a course policy in Law School) En Revista Jurídica Estudiantil Año II No. 3, RJE Montevideo.

Accepted Papers in International Conferences

LANDONI, Pablo y Romero, Carlos (2005) “Accreditation and Private Higher Education Development: A comparison between Argentina, Chile and Uruguay” 2005 Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of Higher Education. Philadelphia, PA November 2005

LANDONI, Pablo y Roane, Warren (2005) “Accreditation as an Incentive for Internationalization: A South American Case Study”Conference - American Association for Higher Education – Atlanta, GA, March 2005

Lectures and Presentations (selected)

Panel Presentation: “Accreditation and Private Higher Education Development: A comparison between Argentina, Chile and Uruguay” Annual Conference of the “Association for the Study of Higher Education”

Philadelphia, PAUSA

November 2005

  • Presentation: “The Changing Public – Private Mix in Uruguay`s Higher Education System”Program for Research on Private Higher Education – Department of Education Administration and Policy Studies, State University of New York at Albany.

Albany, NY, USA

March 2005

  • Conference: “La Autonomía Universitaria: una Polémica y un Dilema” (University and Autonomy: A Debate, a Dilema) Conferences on “La Memoria Uruguaya – 2003 “La Reforma de Córdoba 85 Años después” Facultad de Ciencias Humanas – Universidad Católica del Uruguay

Montevideo, Uruguay

August 2003

  • Lecture: “Planeación, Autoevaluación y Acreditación de Instituciones de Educación Superior.” (Planning, Evaluation and Accreditation of Higher Ed. Institutions)

Seminar “Simposio Permanente sobre la Universidad”Universidad Católica del Uruguay – Montevideo, Uruguay

April 2003

  • Presentation: “Higher Education in Uruguay”
“Privatization and Privatization: Private Higher Education in India and Uruguay”

Program for Research on Private Higher Education – Department of Education Administration and Policy Studies, State University of New York at Albany.

Albany, NY, USA

January 2003

  • Lecture: “Evaluación y Acreditación en el MERCOSUR: Desafío para la Cooperación Académica” (Evaluation and Accreditation in the MERCOSUR: Challenges for Academic Cooperation)

Seminar: “II Jornadas del Cono Sur y IV Jornadas Rioplatenses de Profesores de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales” – Universidad Católica del Uruguay

Montevideo, Uruguay

July 2002

  • Lecture: “Administración Pública e Internet: Desafío para Mentes Abiertas” (Public Administration and Internet: Challenge for Open Minds)

Seminar: “E-government: Internet al Servicio de la Ciudadanía”– El Derecho Digital Uruguayo

Montevideo, Uruguay

December 2000

  • Lecture: “Educación Superior Uruguaya: del Monopolio a la Consolidación del Sistema” (Uruguay´s Higher Education: from Monopoly to System Consolidation) with Carlos Romero.

International Seminar: “Reformas Educativas y Política en América Latina”) - PREAL (Programa de Promoción de la Reforma Educativa en América Latina y el Caribe) and CIDE (Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo de la Educación)

Santiagode Chile, Chile

January 2000

  • Lecture: “La Educación Superior en el Uruguay: Un Sistema en Transformación” (Higher Education In Uruguay: A System Under Reform)

Universidad de Montevideo – Specialization Course for University ProfessorsMontevideo, Uruguay

May 1998

Participation in International Conferences (selected)

  • Orientation Seminar: “Fulbright New Century Scholar” in Higher Education – Center forInternational Higher Education – School of Education (BostonCollege)

Boston, MAUSA

October 2005

  • Fulbright Seminar “Quality and Equity in Education”
LASPAU (Academic and Professional Programs for the Americas) – Harvard Campus, Cambridge, Massachusets, USA

March 2005 – selected as a Fulbright alumnae

  • “World Conference on the Right to and Rights in Education”

European Association for Education, Law and Policy.

Amsterdam, Tilburg, The Hague, Netherlands

November 2004

  • First Joint Meeting to the Higher Education Commission of the MERCOSUR and the National Accreditation Agencies

Representing the PrivateUniversities` Rectors Council and member of the Uruguayan delegation

Buenos Aires, Argentina

April 2001
  • XXXIII Meeting of the Regional Steering Committee of Education in MERCOSUR – Brasilia (Brasil)

Representing the PrivateUniversities` Rectors Council and member of the Uruguayan delegation

Brasilia, Brazil

September 2000

  • “Reformas Educativas y Política en América Latina”(Educational Reforms and Policy in Latin America)

Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo de la Educación (CIDE) y Programa de Promoción de la Reforma Educativa en América Latina y el Caribe (PREAL). Santiagode Chile, Chile

January, 2000

  • “Latin America and the Caribbean at the Threshold of the New Millennium: the Vision of the Next Generation”

Inter American Development Bank (IADB) and UNESCO

Paris, France

March 1999

  • Symposium: “Higher Education in Latin America: The Challenges of the Market and Institutional Reform”

LASPAU (Academic and Professional Programs for the Americas) / The HarvardGraduateSchool of Education / The Harvard Institute for International Development

Cambridge, Massachusets, USA

November 1996

  • 1996 Fulbright Foreign Student Seminar: “1996 Elections: A Defining Moment for the National Agenda”

United States Information Agency / Fulbright Program

Washington DC (USA)

March 1996

“A UNESCO for the 21st. Century” Interregional Conference

President of the Uruguayan delegation

Lisbon, Portugal.

July 1994.

Preliminary Scientific Conference of the 4th. Latin-American Summit Conference of Heads of States and Heads of Government.

Cartagena de Indias, Colombia

June 1994.

2nd. World Conference of Young Leaders.

Jeanne Sauvé Foundation

Montreal, Canada.

May 1994.

VII Latin-American Conference of Ministers of Youth.

President of the Uruguayan delegation

Punta del Este, Uruguay

April 1994.

First Seminar on Academic-Scientific Cooperation in the MERCOSUR.

Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul.

Porto Alegre, Brazil

November 1993.

X Regional Conference of National Committees of the UNESCO.

President of the Uruguayan delegation

La Habana, Cuba.

July 1993.

“Seventh. Meeting of the Regional Coordinating Committee of the Educational MERCOSUR”

President of the Uruguayan delegation

Asunción, Paraguay

June 1993.

XXIV Meeting of the Interamerican Council for Education, Science and Culture. (CIECC-OAS)

Acting President of the Meeting

Punta del Este, Uruguay

March 1993

II Latin-American Conference of Ministers of Education. Organization of Ibero-American States (OEI)

President of the Uruguayan delegation

Bogotá, Colombia.

November 1992.

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