Programme Specialist of the Capacity Building and Policy Dialogue Programme, International Bureau of Education (IBE/UNESCO, Geneva) from January 2006 onwards. The current main tasks are to: (a) support regions and countries in the processes of curriculum change and management through the elaboration for example of learning tools, the implementation of capacity-development workshops and providing technical advise; (b) coordinate UNESCO worldwide Community of Practice (COP) in Curriculum Development (more than 1.400 educators from near 132 countries) where the issues of curriculum change can be jointly discussed and implemented within the framework of EFA goals and (c) support the implementation of follow-up activities of the 48th session of the International Conference on Education (ICE 2008) on inclusive education and curriculum.

Sociologist, title obtained in 12/1987, field of study sociology, major subject social policies and education, Public University of Uruguay (UDELAR) and Master in Educational Research, obtained in 7/1993, field of study educational research, major subject educational policies, IRDC (Canada) – CIEP (Uruguay).

Opertti coordinated several education programmes in Uruguay at the Ministerial level. His main publication refers to issues of social policies, poverty, childhood, educational policies and planning, and curriculum design and development.