Emanuela di Gropello manages the Gender Group where she facilitates the implementation of the new World Bank 2024-2030 Gender Strategy, leads the gender unit’s work program, and engages with stakeholders to expand engagements and partnerships toward gender equality.
Previously, Emanuela was the Practice Leader for Education in Latin America and the Caribbean, Manager for IEGHC Human Development & Corporate Evaluations, and Program Leader for Human Development in the Cameroon/Gabon/Angola/Equatorial Guinea/Sao Tome & Principe CMU and Mali/Niger/Chad/Guinea CMU of the Africa Region. She was also successively Economist, Senior Economist, and Lead Economist in Human Development Departments in the Latin America & Caribbean and the East Asia and Regions.
Emanuela brings a wealth of operational, analytical and policy experience in education and the broader human development sector, acquired on many different regional and country contexts. She has also published extensively on a variety of development topics, including economics of education, education governance and financing, skills and secondary education.
Emanuela holds a Doctorate in Economics from the University of Oxford where her research focused on an evaluation of the impact of education decentralization on education quality and equity.