Mercedes Miguel is the Minister of Education of Buenos Aires City Government in Argentina. She also served as Undersecretary for Innovation and Education Quality at the National Ministry of Education of Argentina (2015-2019). Currently, she also serves on Nord Anglia Education's Advisory Board and has been also working at Argentina's River Plate Football Club's school, where she has led the design of a new educational model targeted at the club’s high-performance athletes (River DAR).

She studied Journalism in the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina and took education courses in Harvard University, Singularity University, Schumacher College and recently at Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design. She also studied Education Information at the National University of Lanús in Argentina, and received a scholarship for New Technologies and Learning in Chile, the Dominican Republic and Costa Rica.

Before taking on her role as Secretary, she was a teacher and since 2010 served in public administration as General Director of Education Planning and Innovation in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires. In this position, she led the Teachers’ School creating a new vision based on innovative practices. Furthermore, she led the creation of the first Curriculum for Secondary Level School; she also oversaw the City’s Teacher Training School, introducing innovation in teaching practices, and policies focused on the student learning outcomes.

At the Secretariat of Innovation, she created the National School of Government for Education Policies to leave human capacity at provincial level, led the transformation of digital education, teacher training, the implementation of new framework for Secondary level schools, and the National Plan ‘Learning Mathematics’, towards improving Maths at National level.

She represented Argentina at the OECD Education Committee and was also a member of the Steering Committee at UNESCO 2030 for two periods. Furthermore, she was designated Chair of the Education Working Group during the Argentine Presidency for the G20 during 2018 leading both national and international agendas.