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Aurelio Nuño Mayer is a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University and the Former Minister of Public Education in Mexico (August 2015 to December 2017). Aurelio Nuño received a degree in political science and administration at the Universidad Iberoamericana, and he later earned a master's degree at University of Oxford (UK). He articulated one of the most comprehensive and ambitious education reforms in many decades in Mexico. The reform consisted of five structural changes: 1) a new national curriculum for the Twenty-First Century skills; 2) a new merit-based professional system for training, hiring and promoting teachers; 3) a new model of school organization; 4) a national strategy for inclusion and equity; and 5) a new model of governance within the education system. Currently, he is a visiting scholar at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and he is writing a book on the politics of education.