Dr. Maria Ron-Balsera finished her PhD in Education from Bielefeld University (Germany) in 2014, with a Marie Curie Fellowship. She also holds an MSc in Human Rights from the London School of Economics and an LLM in Human Rights from Universidad Carlos III in Madrid.  She has done research at the Institute of Education (UCL) as a visiting research associate, and at UC Berkeley through a research exchange program.

Maria is currently working as the Tax and Education Alliance Coordinator. A transnational partnership that brings together ActionAid, Education International, Global Campaign for Education, Tax Justice Network and the Global Alliance for Tax Justice. She has coordinated other multi-country projects in ActionAid, working in areas of education financing and privatization.

Maria is also an associate lecturer at the University of London, and has experience as a consultant, researcher and as a teacher. She has also written several publications including articles in high impact academic journals.