This virtual event, convened by the World Bank, launched the Quality Early Learning: Nurturing Children’s Potential volume to highlight the importance of investing in quality early childhood education (ECE).
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Melissa Kelly is part of the Early Childhood Development team at the World Bank, where she leads the Early Years Fellowship. She brings fifteen years of experience in design and delivery of ECD and education programming across diverse contexts. Melissa has led operational work on early childhood in Guatemala, Honduras, Haiti, Ethiopia, Malawi, Mozambique, Uganda, Zambia, Pakistan and Indonesia in…
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Gary Barker, PhD, is a leading global voice in engaging men and boys in advancing gender equality and positive masculinities. He is the CEO and co-founder of Promundo-US, which has worked more than 10 years in nearly 40 countries. He is also co-founder of Instituto Promundo in Brazil, which began work on healthy masculinities and male allyship more than 20 years ago. Gary is co-founder of…
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Ms. Mbodji has served as the Secretary General of the Ministry of National Education since January 2018. She reports to the Minister of Education, whom she assists in the execution of government policy and in the administration of the department. She has over 30 years of experience in the education sector. She serves as Program Coordinator for the implementation of the WAEMU public financial…
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Norbert Schady, a German national, is Chief Economist for Human Development in the World Bank Group. Previously, he was Principal Economic Advisor, Social Sector, at the Inter-American Bank (2010-2021), Senior Economist in the Development Research Group (2003-2010), Economist in the Poverty Group of the Latin America region of the World Bank (2000-2003), and a Young Professional at the World Bank…
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Professor of Globalization and Education at NYU Steinhardt and a University Professor at NYU, Co-Director of the Global TIES for Children center Remarks Hirokazu Yoshikawa is the Courtney Sale Ross Professor of Globalization and Education at NYU Steinhardt and a University Professor at NYU, and Co-Director (with J. Lawrence Aber) of the Global TIES for Children center at NYU. He is a community…
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Ben Piper leads Global Education at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation based in Ethiopia. In this role he supports grantees focused on improving foundational literacy and numeracy in low- and middle-income countries. He was previously senior director, Africa Education, for RTI International, where he provided support to large-scale education projects across Sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle…
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In this newly established role as Chief Impact Officer in the LEGO Foundation, Sarah provides leadership to the development and implementation of the LEGO Foundation’s portfolio of initiatives to systemically reach children and further the LEGO Foundation’s social impact of inspiring and equipping the world to embrace learning through play. Sarah joined the LEGO Foundation in 2017 as Head of…
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Magdalena Bendini is a senior economist in the Latin and Central America Region of the Education Global Practice at the World Bank. In this role, she leads large-scale early childhood projects with the governments of El Salvador and Honduras. She has been studying and working on issues related to human development and poverty for the past 15 years at the World Bank, the Organisation for Economic…
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