Marcelo Suárez-Orozco, Wasserman Dean of the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, has been appointed by Pope Francis to the executive committee of the Pontifical Academy of the Social Sciences for a five-year term.
Suárez-Orozco is an academician of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences and has been a regular speaker at the academy’s meetings and events. In 2017, he and the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies co-hosted a workshop on humanitarianism and mass migration with the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, and the Ross Institute of New York.
Suárez-Orozco is a trustee of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and a member of the governance board of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the co-founder of Re-imagining Migration and a co-founder and co-director of the Institute for Immigration, Globalization and Education at UCLA.
The Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences was established by Pope John Paul II in 1994 to promote the study and progress of the social sciences, primarily economics, sociology, law and political science, with the goal of providing the Catholic Church with perspectives to use in the development of its social doctrine the application of that doctrine in contemporary society.
