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Biography
Guilherme is proudly Brazilian. His research focuses on the sources of educational inequities in the global South and on solutions with the potential to overturn them. He is co-director at the Stanford Lemann Center and a faculty affiliate at the Stanford King Center on Global Development and at the Stanford Center on Early Childhood. He holds a PhD in Political Economy and Government from Harvard University. He was previously the UNICEF Professor of Child Well-being and Development at the University of Zurich. Guilherme is also a co-founder of Brazilian EdTech Movva, a student success management system supporting vulnerable students graduate college. He was acknowledged by the Schwab Foundation as top-10 Brazilian social entrepreneur in 2020 (post-Covid legacy) and by MIT Technology Review as the top under-35 Brazilian innovator in 2014. His research has been published in numerous scientific journals, including the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) and Nature Human Behavior, and campaigns featuring his work won multiple awards, including two lions at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity.
Other titles
Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Education
Program affiliations
DAPS
SHIPS (PhD)
SHIPS (PhD): Global and Comparative Education
(MA) GCE/IEPA
Research interests
Achievement | Adolescence | Assessment, Testing and Measurement | Child Development | Data Sciences | Early Childhood | Economics and Education | Educational Policy | Elementary Education | Equity in Education | Gender Issues | International and Comparative Education | Learning Differences | Literacy and Language | Math Education | Motivation | Parents and Family Issues | Poverty and Inequality | Research Methods | School Reform | Social and Emotional Learning | Special Education | Teachers and Teaching | Technology and Education
Recent publications
Kumar, A., Bloomfield, J., Balsa, A., Do (Heather), H., Cid, A., Lichand, G., & Wolf, S. (2025). Sociodemographic predictors of depression among economically vulnerable mothers in urban Uruguay. JOURNAL OF AFFECTIVE DISORDERS REPORTS, 21.
Lichand, G., & Wolf, S. (2025). Measuring Child Labor: The Who's, the Where's, the When's, and the Why's. PloS One, 20(6), e0322987.
Lichand, G., Ash, E., Arold, B., Gudino, J., Doria, C. A., Trindade, A., … Yeager, D. (2024). Measuring student mindsets at scale in resource-constrained settings: A toolkit with an application to Brazil during the pandemic. Journal of Research on Adolescence : the Official Journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence.
