Fitxa persona

Mauro Mediavilla is an Associate Professor in the Department of Applied Economics at the University of Valencia. He is also a research associate at the Barcelona Institute of Economics (IEB), the European Foundation for Society and Education, and the Public Economic Evaluation Research Group (EVALPUB). He holds a PhD in Economics (2011) and was awarded the José Luis Moreno Becerra Prize for the best doctoral thesis in the field of Economics of Education (2013).

He currently serves as the vice-president of the Association for the Economics of Education (AEDE). His main research interests focus on the determinants of academic achievement and the evaluation of public policies in education.

In 2025, he has served as a consultant for UNESCO (PEER - Spain). He has also acted as a consultant for the UNESCO Institute for Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean, and as an advisor to the Prometheus Program of the Government of Ecuador (2014–2015), as well as to the Spending Review project (European Commission) for Spain, conducted by the Independent Authority for Fiscal Responsibility (AIReF) (2018–2019).

Additionally, he was a member of the expert committee for the scholarship system review in Spain, advising the Save the Children Foundation. He has undertaken research stays at several prestigious universities and research centres in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Denmark, Hong Kong, Ecuador, Latvia, Serbia, and Romania.

Since 2005, he has participated continuously in numerous competitive research projects at both the national and regional levels. He has authored over 70 publications, including articles in indexed journals, books, and book chapters.