Marla Spivack is an Economist at the World Bank. She leads programs providing technical assistance to governments to improve foundational learning outcomes and using implementation science to improve scale-up of evidence-based programs. She also supports education projects in East Asia and the Pacific, and was a co-author of the World Bank’s flagship report, Choosing our Future: Education for Climate Action. Prior to joining the Bank, she led research synthesis and engagement for The Research on Improving Systems of Education Programme (RISE) and held an appointment as a Research Fellow with the Building State Capability Program at Harvard University. She has also worked on social protection, monitoring and evaluation, and microcredit programmes in India, Mexico, and Zambia. Marla holds a Master’s degree in Public Administration in International Development (MPA/ID) from the Harvard Kennedy School and a BA in Economics from Tufts University.