Manuel Palácios:
- President of the Anísio Teixeira National Institute for Educational Studies and Research (Inep) | 2023
- Founder and member of the FLIP+ Steering Committee | 2018–2023
- Researcher at the Center for Public Policy and Educational Evaluation at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (CAEd/UFJF) | 2001–2023
- Professor in the School of Education and the Professional Graduate Program in Management and Evaluation of Public Education at UFJF | 1991–2023
- Secretary of Basic Education at the Ministry of Education (SEB/MEC) | 2015–2016
- Vice Rector for Planning and Management at UFJF | 2007–2008
- Director of Higher Education Policy, Director of Higher Education Development, and Acting Secretary of the Secretariat of Higher Education (Sesu/MEC) | 2004–2007
- Dean of the School of Education at UFJF | 1998–2002
- Coordinator of CAEd/UFJF | 2001
Education:
- Ph.D. in Social Sciences from the University Research Institute of Rio de Janeiro (Iuperj) | 1997
- Bachelor’s degree in Communications Engineering from the Military Institute of Engineering (IME) | 1978