Miguel Angel Escotet Explained

Miguel Ángel Escotet
Native Name:Miguel Ángel Escotet
Birth Place:León, Spain
Occupation:Psychologist and University Professor
Alma Mater:University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Thesis Title:The measurement of student problems: a cross-cultural study in five nations
Thesis Url:https://encore.unl.edu/iii/encore/record/C__Rb2583435?lang=eng
Thesis Year:1972
Discipline:Psychology
Sub Discipline:Research Methodology
Workplaces:University of Texas at Brownsville
Florida International University

Miguel Angel Escotet is a social scientist, education administrator and author, emeritus professor at the University of Texas at Brownsville, of which he was dean of the College of Education.[1] [2] He was also secretary general of Organización de Estados Iberoamericanos and professor at Florida International University. He is since 2014 director general of corporate social responsibility of Abanca. He is also president of Fundación Galicia Obra Social, Afundación, and president of IESIDE, Afundacion's business school.[3]

Early life and education

Escotet was born in León, Spain and spent his childhood and teenage years in Gijón.[4] He started studies of engineering at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, which he continued at Universidad del Zulia in Venezuela, before graduating in clinical psychology from Universidad Javeriana in Colombia. In the United States, he obtained an M.A. in psychology and higher education management from the University of Texas at Austin and a Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska, specializing in comparative education and cross-cultural psychology.[5]

Academic and professional career

After earning his PhD in 1972, Escotet became associate professor of psychology at Fort Lewis College, which he left in 1974 to become director general and undersecretary at the ministry of education of Venezuela. He left this position in 1976 to become a founder of Universidad Nacional Abierta, Venezuela's open university, in which he was the provost until 1979, while he also was a professor at Universidad Simón Bolívar. In 1981 he joined Florida International University, where he stayed as professor of research and director of a research center until 1983. He left FIU to become secretary general of Organización de Estados Iberoamericanos in Madrid, a position he held for four years (1983-1987).[6] Between 1987 and 1991 Escotet was rector of Universidad Iberoamericana de Posgrado in Salamanca, after which he became special advisor in higher education and research to the secretary general of UNESCO in Paris.[7] In 1993, Escotet returned to Florida International University, where he was director of the International Institute of Development Education and was appointed Frost professor in 2001.[8] He left FIU in 2004 to become dean of graduate studies at Universidad de Deusto, a private Jesuit university in Spain for four years.[9] Escotet also held the UNESCO Mobile Chair in University History and Future created in 1997 at United Nations University and Universidad de Palermo.[10] In 2008, Escotet joined the University of Texas at Brownsville, where he was dean of the College of Education and from which he retired as emeritus professor in 2014.[11]

Miguel A. Escotet served as a member of UNESCO's advisory committee for higher education in Latin America and the Caribbean for fifteen years. He was also a consultant to the World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, United Nations Development Program, OECD, European Union, Organization of American States, USAID, UNESCO, as well as many academic institutions in different countries. He was also member of the boards of different academic and professional organizations, and member of the editorial boards of international academic journals and book series.[12]

Awards and distinctions

Escotet received an honorary doctorate from Universidade Federal do Maranhao in Brazil and a number of other awards and international distinctions for his scientific contribution in Europe, the United States and Latin America.[13] He is a Life Status Member of the American Psychological Association (APA).

Selected works

Escotet is the author of a large number of publications, which have focused mostly on higher education reforms and innovation in Latin America and Europe, and on the development of research methodology in cross-cultural psychology and transnational studies.[14]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: College of Education . https://archive.today/20121215045940/http://coe.utb.edu/ . dead . 15 December 2012 . The University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College . 30 September 2019.
  2. News: Miguel Ángel Escotet, primer español nombrado catedrático emérito por la Universidad de Texas . 29 September 2019 . El Correo Gallego . 22 August 2014.
  3. Web site: Miguel Ángel Escotet . IESIDE . 30 September 2019.
  4. Web site: Brief Biography . M.A. Escotet . 3 October 2019.
  5. Web site: Miguel Ángel Escotet . Afundación . 3 October 2019.
  6. News: Sanmartín . Olga R. . Un español elegido nuevo secretario general de la Organización de Estados Iberoamericanos . 4 October 2019 . El Mundo . 26 April 2018.
  7. Web site: Miguel Angel Escotet . LinkedIn . 4 October 2019.
  8. Web site: Escotet named Frost Professor in College of Education . https://web.archive.org/web/20060813144927/http://news.fiu.edu/fiunewsletter/sept2001/escotet.htm . dead . 13 August 2006 . FIU newsletter . 4 October 2019.
  9. Web site: Miguel Angel Escotet . LinkedIn . 4 October 2019.
  10. Web site: UNESCO-UNU Mobile Chair in University History and Future (10) . UNESCO . 4 October 2019.
  11. Web site: Miguel Angel Escotet . LinkedIn . 4 October 2019.
  12. Web site: Brief Biography . M.A. Escotet . 4 October 2019.
  13. Web site: Honors & Awards . M.A. Escotet . 4 October 2019.
  14. Web site: Miguel Ángel Escotet . Dialnet . 4 October 2019.

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