Anne M. Finucane is vice chairman at Bank of America and a member of the company’s executive management team. She is responsible for the strategic positioning of Bank of America and leads the company’s environmental, social and governance (ESG) efforts. As part of this, she focuses on the company's outreach to shareholders on social and governance issues, implementing innovative ways to deploy…
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Ogundeyi is passionate about using technology to uplift Africa. A serial technology entrepreneur and Founder of Fashpa.com, an ecommerce platform for African Fashion. The platform connects global buyers to small and medium sized fashion brands and artisans across Africa. She is widely recognised as the pioneer of fashion online retail in Nigeria and is one of the Luminaries Shaping Africa’s…
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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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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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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 is co-lead of the Teachers Thematic Group for the World Bank. He is a co-author of the World Bank’s World Development Report 2018, “ Learning to Realize Education’s Promise .” He studies education, health, and social protection issues. He has designed and implemented impact evaluations in education, early child development, agriculture, health, and social protection, in Brazil, the Gambia,…
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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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