Guilherme Lichand
Guilherme Lichand, who is originally from Brazil, joins the GSE as an assistant professor who will be working with the GSE’s Lemann Center for Educational Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Brazil. His research focuses on sources of educational inequity in the global South, and potential solutions.
Prior to coming to the GSE, he was an assistant professor of child well-being and development at the University of Zurich. He also co-founded the Brazilian edtech platform Movva, designed to support vulnerable students in graduating from college.
Lichand earned a PhD in political economy and government from Harvard University, a master’s of science in economics from Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, and a bachelor’s degree in economics from Fundação Getulio Vargas.
“Stanford GSE is at the top of the world,” said Lichand, who started on Sept. 1. “I deeply admire the work of so many faculty in the school and am so looking forward to working together with them in the years to come. I’m also really excited about getting to know students, and learning from what they already have done and what they aspire to do next.”