The High-Level Panel on the Teaching Profession aims to develop a series of recommendations, based on empirical evidence, on how to achieve the goal of ensuring that every student has a professionally trained and qualified teacher.
The event brings together 15 leading international figures from the education sector, including the ministers of education from Romania, Indonesia, South Africa, and Argentina, as well as representatives from teachers’ and students’ unions and prominent global education experts.
Established by Guterres with the support of the ILO-UNESCO Joint Secretariat, the High-Level Panel on the Teaching Profession was one of the outcomes of the 2022 United Nations Summit on Transforming Education.
By the end of November 2023, the group must submit a report, which will serve as a key input for preparing the Summit on the Future in 2024 and will help advance the follow-up to the Summit on the Transformation of Education.
By analyzing relevant research and studies, the High-Level Panel on the Teaching Profession will make recommendations to decision-makers.
With the aim of promoting better working conditions for teachers and educational staff, and helping to address the growing global shortage of teachers.
Denise Vaillant holds a PhD in Education from the Université du Québec à Montréal (Canada). She also holds a Master’s degree in Planning and Management and a Bachelor’s degree in Education from the University of Geneva (Switzerland). She has held various senior positions within Uruguay’s National Public Education Administration. She is a visiting professor at numerous Latin American and European universities; an advisor to several international organizations; and the author of numerous articles and books on the teaching profession, educational reforms, and educational innovation.
She is a member of the Honorary Committee of the National System of Researchers (SNI), and in 2019 she was promoted to Level III in the SNI’s Social Sciences division, becoming the only representative from the field of education at that level.
She currently serves as the academic director of theDoctor of Education program and as the editor of the journal Cuadernos de Investigación Educativa , and as dean of the Institute of Education at Universidad ORT Uruguay.