Before her arrival in Chile, Ms. Uribe was advising the project management unit of the Ministry of Education in Surinam. She had recently participated in discussions on creating a post-conflict educational program in Colombia and served as an assessor and consultant for Global Partnership for Education. Shortly before, in 2016, Claudia Uribe worked as technical advisor for the National Institute for Educational Assessment of Mexico and consultant for the Government of the State of Puebla (Mexico).

Claudia Uribe has developed an extensive international career. Between 2003 and 2015, she served as Lead Education Specialist at the Inter-American Development Bank, where she spearheaded discussions on educational policies with governments and developed and supervised loan and technical cooperation programs in this area.

During this time, she worked extensively in Mexico and other Central American and Caribbean countries on programs to improve access to education and the quality of rural and indigenous education (Panama, Honduras, Mexico), to strengthen early childhood development (Nicaragua, Panama, Mexico) and to foster the inclusion of technology in educational programs (Colombia, Brazil). Ms. Uribe also worked on a program to develop flexible formats for secondary education (Honduras) and on school reform and youth training (Jamaica).

From 1997 to 2001, Ms. Uribe was consultant for the World Bank in Bangladesh and the United States, for the Harvard Institute for International Development and the Inter-American Development Bank (Washington), working with the educational ministries of Bangladesh and South American and Central American countries.

Ms. Uribe began her career in the field of education in 1979. As team member of the National Institute of Anthropology (Colombia), she helped indigenous communities in the Amazon jungle to establish community schools. From 1981 to 1985, she co-directed an NGO that works with women in flower plantations located in the suburbs of Bogotá (Colombia), helping them establish community day care centers and early childhood learning programs. During the first half of the 1990s, she served as researcher and advisor to the vice-minister of education and general director of the Ministry of Education of Colombia. In this latter position, she supervised the implementation of quality control standards and mechanisms for educational programs and for teacher and student assessment.

Claudia Uribe is Colombian, with a BA in Anthropology from Tulane University (New Orleans, USA, 1981), a master’s degree in Education (Human Development and International Education) from Harvard University (USA, 1993) and a Doctorate in Education (Administration, Planning and Social Policy) also from Harvard University (2003).