Brune Louise Sabine Poirson, politician, was born in Washington DC (US) on 1st September, 1982. Originally from Vaucluse, she studied at Sciences Po Aix, then at the London School of Economics (UK), and then at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government (US). She began her career in England where she worked as a Project Manager for Nesta (the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts…
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Professor Tawana Kupe, Vice-Principal of the University of the Witwatersrand., He is responsible for the daily running of the University and the coordination of operations across all Executive portfolios. Professor Kupe served as the Executive Dean of the Wits Faculty of Humanities for six years (2007-2012) and was Head of the Wits School of Literature and Language Studies (2004 – 2006) and the founding Head of the Media Studies department in 2002. As Dean, he…
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Before joining Wits, Habib was Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the University of Johannesburg and, before that, he served as the Executive Director of the Democracy and Governance Programme of the Human Science Research Council. He also served as the founding director of the Centre for Civil Society, as a research professor in the School of Development Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, and…
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Shwetlena is a Senior Economist at the Education Global Practice of the World Bank. Her main research interests are in the areas of Economics of Education and Labor Markets. In education, her work focuses on impacting teacher and student effort, stimulating demand for services, performance-based financing for education, and the political economy of education reform. In Labor Markets she is…
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Emiliana is Chief of the Education Division at the Inter-American Development Bank. Formerly Lead Economist in the Human Development Department of The World Bank, she focuses on economics of education, education policy and development in Latin America and the Caribbean. Emiliana holds a PhD in Education from Harvard University, a M.A. in Public Policy from Duke University and a bachelor’s degree…
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Justin is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Global Development. Prior to joining CGD, he spent two years as an adviser to Tanzania's national statistics office and worked as a research officer at Oxford University's Centre for the Study of African Economies. He has also worked on a project with the Kenyan Ministry of Education to bring rigorous impact evaluation into the Ministry’s policymaking…
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Ezequiel is an Economist and the team leader for the SABER-Teachers program and Teach classroom observation tool within the Global Knowledge and Innovation Unit of the Education Global Practice. He works on measuring the quality of education service delivery and improving teachers’ classroom practices. In this capacity, he provides support to projects in Africa, Latin America, and South Asia.…
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Thomas is the faculty director of the Center for Education Policy Research, a university-wide research center that works with school districts and state agencies. Between 2009 and 2012, he directed the Measures of Effective Teaching project for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. His work has spanned both K-12 and higher education, covering topics such as the design of school accountability…
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David Evans is a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development, working on education, health, and social safety nets. Previously he was at the World Bank, where he co-authored the World Development Report 2018, Learning to Realize Education’s Promise, coordinated impact evaluation work for sub-Saharan Africa, and managed education projects in Brazil. Evans has evaluated education, early…
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Tara co-leads the World Bank’s Teachers Thematic Group. She was part of the core team of the World Development Report 2018, Learning to Realize Education’s Promise , and is currently leading South Asia’s regional flagship, Ready to Learn. Ready to Thrive . Tara also leads the World Bank’s longest-standing project in higher education, Technical Education Quality Improvement Project III (TEQIP III…
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