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Ricardo Sabates Aysa is Professor of Education and International Development at the University of Cambridge. He is a development economist with 15 years of experience working in areas of educational inequalities, mostly in the context of international development.

An academic since 2002, he started at the Institute of Education London as a research fellow (then senior research fellow) at the Centre for Research on the Wider Benefits of Learning. In 2008 he moved to the Department of Education, University of Sussex as a Senior Lecturer (later Reader) where he led the MA programme in Education and International Development (2010-2012). During 2012 to 2014 lived in Rwanda and continued to undertake research in educational inequalities for the Centre for International Education, University of Sussex.

In 2015, Dr Sabates Aysa was appointed Reader in Education at the University of Cambridge and appointed Professor of Education and International Development in 2020. He is an active member of the Research for Equitable Access and Learning (REAL) Centre, and has collaborated with numerous international agencies including OECD, UNICEF, UNESCO UIS, DFID and the World Bank.

He is currently Deputy Director of Research at the Faculty of Education.