Lead, Global Solutions Group on Tertiary Education and Lead Education Specialist for India;

Francisco Marmolejo is the Global Lead of Tertiary Education at the World Bank Group, where he also serves as Lead Education Specialist of India. In his capacity as the World Bank’s most senior official in tertiary education, he serves as the institutional focal point on the topic of tertiary education (also known as higher education in several countries), and provides advice and support to country-level related projects that the Bank has in more than 60 countries. Previously, he served as founding Executive Director of the Consortium for North American Higher Education Collaboration (CONAHEC), a network of more than 160 higher education institutions primarily from Canada, the U.S. and Mexico, based at the University of Arizona (UA) in USA, where he also worked as Assistant Vice President and Affiliated Researcher at the Center for the Study of Higher Education. He regularly speaks and writes on a wide range of tertiary education issues. His international education experience has taken him to more than 70 countries around the world, where he has worked with universities, governments and international associations over more than 30 years.