Elizabeth Ninan Dulvy manages Education and Skills Policy & Regulations at the World Bank Group, where she co-leads the Bank's global policy and analytical work on education and skills. She has spent more than 25 years in human development, much of it in Africa, leading operations, studies and policy dialogue across basic education, secondary education and skills development. Her work has ranged from designing lending programmes to advising governments on the financing and institutional reforms that make education systems deliver. Before joining the World Bank, she was co-Director of a South African think tank that built the capacity of historically disadvantaged researchers and higher education institutions to produce high-quality evidence for policymakers in health and social development. She holds a master's in development planning from the University of the Witwatersrand and a dual master's in public policy and quantitative techniques from Columbia University.