Mourad Ezzine is the Education Sector Manager, Human Development Department in the Middle East and North Africa Region of the World Bank. He joined the World Bank in 1992 and worked extensively on human development issues and the linkages between education and economic development, in North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East. Before joining the Bank, he was Director of Planning and Information Systems in the Tunisian Ministry of Education and held management-level positions in a Tunisian private development bank. Mr. Ezzine holds a post-graduate degree in economics and statistics from the Ecole Nationale des Statistiques et de l’Administration Economique in Paris, a Master’s degree in development economics from the Sorbonne University in Paris, and a Maîtrise in Mathematics from the University of Sciences of Tunis.