Fernando M. Reimers is the Ford Foundation Professor of the Practice of International Education and Director of the Global Education Innovation Initiative and of the International Education Policy Masters Program at Harvard University. When he is not researching and writing about how to educate children and youth in the twenty first century, or teaching and advising his graduate students, he writes 'The Adventures of Filomena' a series of books to encourage intergenerational conversations about living well of which this book is the first.