Mabel Martinez is an experienced Consultant with the World Bank Group's Education Global Practice, specializing in research for education-related products, corporate and progress reports, and country engagement products. She currently supports project reporting for the Building Resilient Education Systems and Skills for the Digital Economy program, as well as the Foundational Learning Compact umbrella trust fund.
She has co-authored several reports on education initiatives and the distributional and social impacts of education policy reform, including Teachers’ Digital Skills & Digital Competency Frameworks for Teaching and Learning Knowledge Pack, Practical Knowledge Tools to Build Resilient Education Systems, Foundational Learning Compact Umbrella Trust Fund Progress Report: October 2022 - September 2023, Foundational Learning Compact Umbrella Trust Fund Progress Report: January 2021 - September 2022, SABER Annual Report 2020 (Retrospective Review): Transforming Education Systems – Accelerating Foundational Learning for Everyone, Education Systems in Action: Transforming Data into Education Policy Implementation – SABER Annual Report 2019, and Innovations and Good Practices in Poverty and Social Impact Analysis: Multi-Donor Trust-Fund 2010-2016, among others.
Prior to joining the World Bank Group, Mabel consulted for the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) for five years, providing economic and operational research for corporate reports, country strategies, briefs, and programming and portfolio review documents. She contributed to missions in Argentina and Bolivia. Additionally, she worked for three years in the Dominican Republic as an Associate Researcher for the NGO Economic Research Center for the Caribbean (Centro de Investigación Económica para el Caribe, CIECA) and in the private sector.
Mabel holds a master's degree in Economics with a concentration in Development Finance and Banking from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and American University, where she was an OAS and Japan-IDB scholar. She earned her bachelor's degree in Economics from the Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic.