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Serving under the World Bank's Director of Education until November 2011, Christine Horansky coordinated communications on global education policy issues. By sharing the institution's knowledge and expertise in education, her team works to advance the global agenda towards achieving learning for all. She has worked on education messaging and advocacy to help support major international efforts such as the Millennium Development Goals campaign for universal primary education and gender equality. A graduate of Harvard University, she holds a masters in International Education Policy and a bachelors in International Relations from Mount Holyoke College. She has studied international development with the School for International Training and conducted original field research on public discourse and social transformation in Cochabamba, Bolivia. Prior to joining the World Bank, she worked as Director of Communications for the United Nations Association's Young Professionals board in Boston. Her background includes work in international exchange, global citizenship, girls' education, women's affairs and leadership. She is a passionate supporter of the human side of development and believes investing in people is the most powerful thing you can do. In 2011, Chrissy was named a Young Global Shaper by the World Economic Forum.
Jishnu Das is a Senior Economist in the Development Research Group (Human Development and Public Services Team) at the World Bank and a Visiting Scholar at The Center for Policy Research, New Delhi. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in Economics in 2001. Since joining the World Bank, Jishnu has worked on issues related to the delivery of basic services, particularly health and education. His work draws upon data collected in Zambia (education), India (health and education), Pakistan (education) and Paraguay (health).
Jishnu blogs for "Is We Learning?"
Emiliana Vegas is Lead Economist at the Human Development Department of the World Bank, where she has been leading applied research on global education policy issues, specifically teacher policies, education finance systems, early childhood development policies, and system-wide quality assurance systems. During 2003-2008, Ms. Vegas worked in the Bank’s Latin America and Caribbean Region. In this capacity, she advised the Chilean and Uruguayan authorities on early childhood development policies and interventions to raise the quality of basic and secondary education. She is the author of several articles in peer-reviewed journals and institutional reports, many of them focusing on education quality, teacher labor markets and teacher incentives. Her recent book, The Promise of Early Childhood Development in Latin America and the Caribbean (2010, The World Bank Press, co-authored with Lucrecia Santibáñez), focuses on the status of early childhood development in that region and reviews the research evidence on the impact of policies and programs affecting early childhood development. Her previous books include Raising Student Learning in Latin America: The Challenge for the 21st Century (2007, The World Bank Press, co-authored with Jenny Petrow) and Incentives to Improve Teaching: Lessons from Latin America (2005, The World Bank Press, Editor). Ms. Vegas has a doctorate in education from Harvard University with a concentration in economics of education, a master’s degree in public policy studies from Duke University, and a bachelor’s degree in communications with a concentration in journalism from Andrés Bello Catholic University in Caracas, Venezuela.
Emiliana blogs for "Is We Learning?"
Nicole Goldstein worked at the World Bank on education policy, specifically focusing on teacher management systems until August 2011 . Her interests include delivering education in fragile states as well as enabling mechanisms of service delivery to be more inclusive. This was informed by research carried out for UNICEF in Orissa, India that looked at social exclusion of Scheduled Tribal populations through education. Ms Goldstein holds a Masters in Economics and Conflict Studies, from SAIS, Johns Hopkins University, a Masters in History from the University of Cambridge and a law degree.
Nicole blogs for "Is We Learning?"
