Lyli Gastañadui holds a PhD in Educational Administration from the University of Texas at Austin (2013), United States. She was a fellow of the Ford Foundation International Fellowship Program (2008–2011) in recognition of her commitment and contribution to the quality of Peruvian education during the period 1998–2007. She earned a Bachelor’s degree in Education and a Master´s degree in Educational Psychology from the National University of Trujillo (2003), and a law degree from Universidad Privada Antenor Orrego (Trujillo, 2019). Currently, she is pursuing a Master´s degree in Quality Evaluation and Certification Processes in Hihger Education at UNIR.

Dr. Gastañadui has extensive experience in the field of teacher training, international education and academic mobility; she is also an external evaluator in university accreditation processes certified by the National System of Evaluation, Accreditation and Certification of Educational Quality (SINEACE, Presidential Resolution No. 000099-2021 SINEACE/P, PERU); and peer review team member of EQUAA (Education Quality and Accreditation Agency) and the International Agency for Quality Education (AICE, CACECA, Mexico). She attended the 2024 Nuremberg Moot Court, organized by the International Nuremberg Principles Academy and the University Erlangen-Nuremberg (ICLU, Germany), to explore international opportunities for future student mobility in the legal field.

Currently, she works as a university graduate professor at Cesar Vallejo University and as an invited professor at the National University of Trujillo Graduate School. She is serving as a Judge at the International Greenwich Olympiad (IGO, 2025), contributing her expertise to the evaluation of innovative research and projects globally. She will be presenting a paper at the Middle States Commission on Higher Education Annual Conference (MSCHE, 2025), focusing on the myths surrounding university accreditation processes in Latin America. Her work aims to shed light on the complexities and misconceptions of accreditation systems in the region, fostering a deeper understanding of quality assurance in higher education.