Susan Caceres, Senior Education Specialist, has worked in the field of education for 25 years in various capacities (teacher, Director, technical assistance provider, researcher, and evaluator). She created and monitored numerous early intervention and learning programs, including those for young children with disabilities. She holds a PhD in Education from George Washington University.
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Jeff Tanner, Team Leader for impact evaluations at the World Bank’s Independent Evaluation Group, has worked on issues of early childhood development at the World Bank, the MCC and RAND for over a decade, beginning with the World Development Report 2006 on Equity where he wrote the chapter recommending ECD as a rare intervention that encourages both economic growth and shared prosperity. He has…
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Since joining the World Bank in 2005, Sophie worked in the AFR, EAP and MENA regions, as well as in the Children and Youth Unit of the Human Development Network, and she recently returned to Washington after spending three years in the Mozambique country office. Over time, her work focused on analyzing the opportunities and challenges that low-income children and families face across regions;…
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Susan Walker is Professor of Nutrition and Director of the Tropical Medicine Research Institute at The University of the West Indies (UWI), Jamaica. She heads the Child Development Research Group at UWI whose work in developing low cost approaches to promote children’s development and the rigorous evaluations have been critical in driving global attention to the importance of early stimulation…
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Kofi Marfo, is Professor and Founding Director of the Institute for Human Development at Aga Khan University (South-Central Asia, East Africa, and UK). He was the Founding Director of the Center for Research on Children’s Development and Learning at the University of South Florida, where he was Professor of Educational Psychology (and Special Education) from 1992-2014. His current scholarly…
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Born in 1972, he currently lives in Istanbul and is married with two children. Previously, he spent 13 years working in Hong Kong (1995-2007). In February 2015, he was appointed as CEO of Arçelik A.Ş, a subsidiary of Koc Holding. Prior to that role, he was Assistant General Manager in charge of sales for Europe, Americas, and the Asia-Pacific. He started his career at Koc Holding, Turkey’s…
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Born on 11th of August 1975. Doctor of Economics at the University of Sussex. Graduated from the Faculty of Economics, University of Warsaw. In 1998 and 2007, Mateusz Szczurek completed econometrics courses at the International Center for Money and Banking Studies in Geneva and London. In 1994-1997 he participated in a joint programme of the University of Warsaw and Columbia University in the…
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Ms. Townsend is a Peruvian TV news reporter and presenter with a long track record as a local and international journalist. She holds a Law degree and an Associate of Arts degree from the Universidad Católica del Perú (1994-2000). She started her career writing for local news magazine, Caretas, and working as a news presenter for Chanel 2 in Peru. Her international status came in the late 90s…
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Patricia Majluf is the Vice President of Oceana in Peru, the largest international NGO fully dedicated to protecting the global oceans. For the last three decades she has almost singly led marine conservation efforts in Peru, successfully promoting the establishment of marine protected areas and developing public awareness of the large-scale ecosystemic and socio-economic impacts of the massive…
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Dr. Gerardine Mukeshimana is the Minister of Agriculture and Animal Resources for the Republic of Rwanda. As a minister she is responsible for oversight of all agricultural and livestock-related activities in the country, including new policy formulation, oversight of implementation of existing policies, and work with other ministries and development partners on issues that affect the…
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