Emma Cameron is part of the Early Childhood Development team at the World Bank, supporting global and country-level initiatives to promote and expand quality early childhood development. Her work focuses mainly on early childhood development, teacher professional development, and girls' education, and she has field experience in countries across Sub-Saharan Africa. She also has consulted with the Center for Global Development and the Education Commission.
Prior to joining the World Bank, she was a secondary teacher in Rwanda for two years as part of the Peace Corps and a primary teacher for two years in the US and Tanzania. Emma holds a Master’s in International Education Policy from Harvard Graduate School of Education and a Bachelor’s in Education and Cultural Anthropology with a focus on Sub-Saharan Africa from Middlebury College.