Andreas Schleicher

Andreas Schleicher is director for education and skills and special advisor on education policy to the secretary-general at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). In addition to policy and country reviews, the work of the directorate includes the Programme for International Student Assessment, the OECD Survey of Adult Skills, the OECD Teaching and Learning International Survey, and the development and analysis of benchmarks on the performance of education systems. Before joining the OECD, Schleicher was director for analysis at the International Association for Educational Achievement.