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Dr. Richard DLC Gonzales is the Founding Chairman and Chief Executive Advisor and Lead Consultant for Education/Skills Development and Social Protection of the Inno-Change International Consultants, Inc. (IIC), an ISO 9001:2015 certified research, training, and consulting firm based in the Philippines.

Formerly, he was a Senior Education Specialist of the World Bank, Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region Education Global Practice. He was also an Associate Professor of Psychology at the De La Salle University, Manila

At present, he is a Staff Consultant of the Asian Development for Education/Skills Development and Social Protection. He is also an Professorial Lecturer at the University of Santo Tomas Graduate School and at the Cagayan State University-Carig Campus.

His areas of specializations/expertise are: Assessment of Learning, Curriculum Delivery, Education Systems, Teacher Professional Development, Human Resources Development and Capacity Building, Monitoring and Evaluation, Project Management/Leadership and Research Management, TVET/Skill Development and Social Protection.

His research interests are: teachers' assessment beliefs and practices, motivation and strategies in language learning, development of cognitive and non-cognitive measures, psychometrics and scaling techniques and program evaluation.

He holds a PhD major in Research and Evaluation, with cognates in Psychology and Industrial Relations from the University of the Philippines. He completed MSc in Educational Measurement and Evaluation fro De La Salle University and Diploma in Cognitive Psychology and School Education from Shizuoka University, Japan. Recently, he completed a Certificate course on Project Management from the University of California, Irvine, USA.

Dr. Gonzales is a Registered Psychometrician by the Professional Regulations Commission of the Philippines.