Aiken Chew

Aiken Chew works as the Senior Research Officer at the Population Council’s Guatemala office. He has collaborated with the Council since 2013 as a site coordinator for Abriendo Oportunidades in Chisec, Alta Verapaz until 2015. From 2017–2021, Chew served as a technical advisor on content for girl programming and community-based research to the mentors’ networks REDMI and Na’leb’ak.

Since 2022, Chew has been working on the education portfolio where he is currently understanding the learning recovery and learning loss after the COVID-19 pandemic with civil society organizations. He is also engaging with government institutions such as the Ministry of Alternative Education in Guatemala to seek new avenues of cooperation between girl programming and state education programs. Chew’s research on education at the Council seeks to dialogue with global initiatives such as Evidence for Gender and Education Resource (EGER) and to provide evidence for public policy decision-making at national level.

Chew holds a bachelors and licentiate degree in Anthropology by the Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, as well as a master’s degree in Local Comparative Development by the Erasmus Mundus Programme.  Other research interests have led Chew to study perceptions and behaviours related to consumption products that could prevent chronic diseases and its impact on public health.