Muriel Poisson is the acting Team Leader for IIEP’s new team on Knowledge Management and Mobilization (KMM).

She is also the task manager of the Institute’s programme on Ethics and Corruption in Education. In this capacity, she has coordinated research projects on a variety of topics including open school data, open government in education, and teacher codes of conduct. She trained more than 2,600 people on how on how to design and implement diagnostic tools aimed at assessing distorted practices in the use of education resources; and on how to design and implement strategies to improve transparency and accountability in education. She provides technical assistance to national teams in charge developing an integrity risk assessment, a public expenditure tracking survey, or a teacher code of conduct. She is also managing ETICO, a dynamic clearinghouse for all information and activities related to transparency and accountability issues in education.

Prior to this, she was involved in the preparation of studies on non-formal education in Asia, and on education in cities. She participated in the organization of meetings on curriculum change for the International Bureau of Education (IBE) in Geneva. She was also involved in activities led by UNESCO within the framework of the Dakar follow-up as assistant of the Assistant Director-General for Education. Finally, she was the team leader a.i. of IIEP’s Research and Development team from 2014 to the beginning of 2017.

Muriel has authored and co-authored a number of articles and books including: ‘Corrupt Schools, Corrupt Universities: What Can Be Done?’ (UNESCO Publishing) and 'Open School Data: What Planners Need to Know'.