Marcelo Suárez-Orozco

Marcelo Suárez-Orozco is a scholar best known for his empirical and conceptual research in the fields of psychological anthropology and cultural psychology with a focus on the study of mass migration, climate change, education, and globalization. Suárez-Orozco served as the inaugural UCLA Wasserman Dean at UCLA School of Education & Information Studies from 2012-2020.

A prolific author, Harvard University Press, Stanford University Press, University of California Press, Cambridge University Press, New York University Press, Columbia University Press, and others have published his award-winning books and edited volumes. His scholarly papers, in a range of disciplines and languages, appear in leading journals, including Harvard Educational Review, Harvard Business Review, Revue Française de Pédagogie (Paris), Cultuur en Migratie (Leuven), Temas: Cultura, Ideologia y Sociedad (Havana), Ethos, The Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Harvard Policy Review, and others. He regularly contributes to national and international media outlets, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Hill, U.S News and World Report, The Huffington Post, CNN, NPR, CNN Español, MSNBC, and others. In 2024, he co-authored the Planetary Call to Action for Climate Change Resilience, signed by His Holiness Pope Francis.

A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (currently serving on the Trust Board), the National Academy of Education, and former Trustee of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, the Chancellor is  a member of the Board of Advisors of the Thomas Mann House, Member of the Board of Directors, Massachusetts High Tech Council, Member of the Board of Director of the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate, Member of the Board of Directors of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation, Member of the Boston Private Industry Council, Member of Sustainable Development Solutions Network USA Leadership Council. Dr. Suárez-Orozco is the recipient of multiple awards and honors, including the Mexican Order of the Aztec Eagle. He served as Special Advisor Education to the Chief Prosecutor, The International Criminal Court, The Hague, The Netherlands.