Paul Moch Islas is CEO & Co-Founder of Camino21 an education and technology company that works alongside HigherEd educators in LATAM to transform their teaching to ensure that students develop 21st Century Skills. Paul also teaches the courses of “Education Policy” and “Innovation in Education Policy” at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM). He graduated of International Education Policy at the Harvard Graduate School of Education where he also worked as research assistant of the Harvard Ministerial Leadership Program and the Language for Learning Research Group. He was also Prof. Fernando Reimers’ Teaching Fellow for his international comparative courses on Educational Innovation and International Education Policy.
He previously served as Deputy Director at Mexico’s National Institute for Adult Education (INEA) where he was in charge of establishing and managing strategic alliances and the coordination “Community Plazas in the Exterior Program” (PCE) which offers free basic education for over 23,000 Mexicans and Latinx in the USA, among other responsibilities.
He majored in Political Science at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) where he was also President of the Student Council. He has experience in non-profit organizations such as the Mariano Otero Conference (CoMO), the Mexican Council on Foreign Relations (COMEXI), the Friedrich Ebert Foundation (FES), and the Ethos Foundations, where he was communications coordinator for the Arena Electoral project, which was recognized as “Best Advocacy Campaign in Latin America” by the 2012 Global Go To Think Tanks Report of the University of Pennsylvania.
He has worked as consultant for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), and as adviser to Mexico’s Minister of Communications. Additionally, he has collaborated as political analyst for newspapers such as Animal Politico and Excelsior, and radio programs at RMX Radio, W Radio, and Coca.fm