British Academy Global Professor, UCL
Francesca Borgonovi is a British Academy Global Professor. She is on extended leave from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development where she is a Senior Policy Analyst. At the OECD she has been responsible for analytical and developmental work in the OECD-led international assessments (PISA and PIAAC) and the Education for Inclusive Societies project.
Francesca is also an Adjunct Professor at the Paris School of International Affairs at Sciences Po and has held research positions in the Department of Social Policy and the Centre for the Analysis of Social Exclusion at the London School of Economics and Political Science and the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. She is currently working on the following research project funded by the British Academy: ‘Digital technologies in education. Measurement and consequences’.
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