Improving Governance, Delivering Better Education · 2017-12-18 · Delivering Better Education Thursday 10 April–Friday 11 April 2014 Irma Clots-Figueras Irma Clots- ... the role

Improving Governance, Delivering Better Education

Blavatnik School of Government, University of OxfordThursday 10 April–Friday 11 April 2014

Speaker and Chair Biographies


Thursday 10 April–Friday 11 April 2014

Irma Clots-Figueras

Irma Clots-Figueras is

currently an associate professor at the Department of Economics

in Universidad Carlos III de Madrid,

Spain, where she has been affiliated since 2006. She is also a Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn and Member of Insights on Immigration and Development (INSIDE), Barcelona. Holding a PhD in Economics from the London School of Economics, she now researches and teaches within the areas of development economics, political economy, labour economics and public economics.

Barbara Bruns

Barbara Bruns is lead economist

responsible for education in the Latin America and the Caribbean

Region of the World Bank. She

is lead author of a new book on teacher quality in Latin America, Great Teachers: How to raise student learning in Latin America and the Caribbean (June 2014). She is also currently co-managing impact evaluations of teacher “pay for performance” programmes in Brazil and alternatively certified teachers in Chile (Ensena Chile). Barbara is lead author of the book Achieving World Class Education in Brazil: the Next Agenda, with David Evans and Javier Luque (2011), published in Portuguese in 2012. She also co-authored Making Schools Work: New Evidence on Accountability Reforms (with Deon Filmer and Harry Patrinos, 2011).

Before joining the World Bank’s Latin America region in 2009, Barbara was the first manager of the $14 million Strategic Impact Evaluation Fund (SIEF) at the World Bank, co-authored the World Bank/IMF MDG Global Monitoring Reports of 2005, 2006 and 2007, served on the Education Task force appointed by the UN Secretary General in 2003, co-authored the book A Chance for Every Child: Achieving Universal Primary Education by 2015, and headed the Secretariat of the global Education for All Fast Track Initiative (EFA FTI) from 2002 to 2004.

Prior to joining the World Bank, Barbara was a staff economist on the US Senate Banking Committee and legislative assistant to Senator Adlai Stevenson III. She holds degrees from the London School of Economics and the University of Chicago.

Simon Burgess

Simon Burgess is a Professor of

Economics in the Department of Economics, University of Bristol. He is

the Director of The Centre for

Market and Public Organisation, CMPO, and also the Director of The Centre for Understanding Behaviour Change, CUBeC . He is also a Visiting Professor at LSE through CASE, and a Research Fellow at Centre for Economic Policy Research and Institute for the Study of Labor.

Simon is a labour economist. His current research interests are in the economics of education, including market-based education reforms such as school performance tables, school accountability, choice and competition, admissions and unequal access to high-performing schools. He also works on ethnic segregation in schools, and the educational performance of minority students. Previously, Simon has worked on the analysis of poverty and household income dynamics, incentives in organisations, and employment and unemployment dynamics, and a few other topics.



Philip Davies

Philip Davies is Head of the London

office of 3ie, the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation.

He has responsibilities

for 3ie’s Systematic Reviews programme, and he represents 3ie in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.

From 2000 to 2007 Philip was a senior civil servant in the UK Cabinet Office and HM Treasury, responsible for policy evaluation and analysis. Before joining the Cabinet Office he was a University Lecturer in Social and Political Science at the University of Oxford, and he has held academic positions at the University of Aberdeen and the University of California, San Diego.

Philip Davies has substantive expertise in health and healthcare, education, social welfare, crime and justice, and international development. He has taught courses on policy evaluation, evidence-based policy making, and the analysis and use of evidence across the UK and in the USA, Canada, and various countries of Europe, Africa and Australasia.

Ricardo Estrada

Ricardo Estrada is a doctoral

candidate at the Paris School of Economics and a graduate from the Master

of Public Policy programme at

the University of Chicago. He is interested in topics within applied microeconomics mostly related to education, labour and development economics. His research agenda is focused in educational choices and the production and benefits of school quality. He is the author of the book Professionals on Tenterhooks about the labor market for college graduates in Mexico.

Rachel Hinton

Rachel Hinton is a social

anthropologist with particular expertise in the field of refugees and

education. She currently works

for the Department for International Development as a social development adviser and manager of the Education Research Team. She is responsible for commissioning research that will inform education programming in developing countries. She has held the position of honorary research fellow at Edinburgh University where her teaching included courses on refugees and migration, development and education, and childhood studies.

Rachel has conducted research in Nepal, India, China and Ghana and provided social development advice to inter-governmental (e.g. UNHCR, ILO) and non-governmental (e.g. ActionAid, Plan and Oxfam) agencies. Until 2010, she was the senior education adviser for the DFID Ghana office. She led the production of DFID’s Girls’ Education Policy for the 2005 MDG target. Since joining DFID, she has worked in Albania, Bosnia, Ghana, India, and Nepal, contributing to public expenditure reviews, country assessments, policy analyses, and evaluations of policies and programs. She has published on topics such as: girls’ education; education and poverty; and is the co-author of the book Inclusive Aid that examines power and relationships in the new aid environment. Rachel Hinton has a PhD in Social Anthropology from Cambridge University.



William Jack

Billy Jack is an Associate

Professor in the Economics Department at Georgetown University,

and co-founder and co-

director of gui2de, the Georgetown University Initiative on Innovation, Development and Evaluation, which conducts empirical field-based research to assess the impact and effectiveness of development interventions. Major research themes include governance and accountability, the promotion of agency in the delivery of health, education, and other public services, the role of mobile technology in development, and financial development and integration. Previously he held positions on the Joint Committee on Taxation of the US Congress, the IMF, the Australian National University, and the University of Sydney. He holds a BSc in mathematics and physics from the University of Western Australia, and an MPhil and DPhil in Economics from the University of Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.

Robin Horn

Robin Horn joined London-based

CIFF in March 2013, where he is now the Director for Education. His

responsibilities include strategy

formulation, policy, programme development, and implementation support. Prior to this position, from 2006 to 2012, Robin was Manager for the World Bank’s Education Sector. In that capacity he led the department responsible for carrying out the Bank’s efforts in education strategy, policy analysis, and programme development to help countries increase the performance of their education systems. One of his main contributions was the conceptualization, formulation, and launch of the Systems Approach for Better Education Results (SABER) initiative - a comprehensive package of metrics and diagnostic tools that provides countries with systematic policy analysis and guidance.

From 2002 until 2006, Robin was Lead Education Specialist in the World Bank’s Europe and Central Asia Region, where he led the World Bank’s education programme for Turkey. Before that, between 1992 and 2002, he was responsible for the Bank’s education programmes in Brazil. Robin’s policy work and projects have focused on education quality, learning outcomes, system management, and finance for basic, secondary, and tertiary education systems. Before joining the Bank, Robin was an education economist for the Africa Bureau of USAID and, previous to that, was a research associate in a private consulting firm providing analysis and support to the US Government. Robin has a PhD in Economics of Education from Columbia University.

Elise Huillery

Elise Huillery is Assistant

Professor at the Department of Economics at Sciences Po, and affiliated

to the Jameel Abdul Latif Poverty

Action Lab. She holds a PhD in Economics from the Paris School of Economics, an MA in Management from HEC and an MA in Philosophy from the University of Paris-Sorbonne. Her research focuses on development economics and economic history. She is doing research on colonial history and the historical determinants of development and inequalities in West Africa. She is also conducting field experiments in health, education and micro-entrepreneurship in several countries (Niger, Morocco, Cameroon, DRC, Bulgaria and France) in order to examine the issues faced by poor people related to accumulation of human capital.



Victor Lavy

Victor Lavy is Chaired Professor

of Economics at Warwick University and William Haber Professor of

Economics at the Hebrew University

of Jerusalem. He is also a research associate at NBER, CEPR, IZA and BREAD. His research focuses on issues in labour economics, economics of education and development economics. He is the author of numerous articles in scholarly journals on these topics. His recent research has focused on the determinants of school quality and students achievements, on the effect of incentives in schools and education systems and on long-term effects at adulthood of various early childhood and schooling interventions.

Clare Leaver

Clare Leaver is Associate

Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of

Government and a Fellow of

University College. Clare completed her PhD studies at the University of Bristol, and remains an associate member of Bristol’s Centre for Public and Market Organisation. She is a research affiliate at CEPR and director of the Service Delivery Programme at the Oxford Institute for Global Economic Development. Much of Clare’s research focuses on careers and incentives within the public sector. In previous research, she has studied Public Utility Commissioners in the United States, and the Senior Judiciary in England and Wales. In current work, she is examining the effectiveness of alternative approaches to incentivising public service delivery in Central East Africa.

Kenneth Leonard

Kenneth Leonard is an Associate

Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at

the University of Maryland,

specialising in the delivery of health services to rural populations in Africa. He has lived and worked in several African countries, including Cameroun, Ethiopia, Gabon, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi and Liberia. His work has highlighted the important roles played by both traditional healers and non-governmental organizations in the delivery of healthcare. Recent work focuses on the supply of healthcare services in Tanzania and examines the behaviour of households in response to the quality of care that is available to them. His experimental trials with doctors in Tanzania show the important role of intrinsic motivation in including performance of doctors.



Derek Neal

Derek Neal is a Professor in the

Department of Economics and the Committee on Education at the University of

Chicago. Derek’s current research

focuses on the design of incentive systems for educators. His work explores the design flaws in current performance pay and accountability systems and also highlights the advantages of providing incentives through contests between schools. Derek is also exploring the causes and consequences of the prison boom in the United States. He is particularly focused on why prison populations grew so rapidly during recent decades and how the changes in policy that drove this growth affect inequality in the United States. Further, Derek is examining the links between home and school experiences of youth and future outcomes in the criminal justice system. He is a recent past President of the Midwest Economics Association, a Fellow of the Society of Labor Economists, an editor of the Journal of Political Economy, and the former Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Labor Economics.

Karthik Muralidharan

Karthik Muralidharan is an Assistant

Professor of Economics at the University of California, San Diego where he

has been on the faculty since 2008.

Born and raised in India, he earned an AB in economics (summa cum laude) from Harvard, an M.Phil in economics from Cambridge (UK), and a PhD in economics from Harvard. He is a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), a Junior Affiliate at the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD), a Member of the Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) network, an Affiliate at the Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA), and a Research Affiliate with Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA). Recent honours include a National Academy of Education/Spencer Post-Doctoral Fellowship and designation as a Distinguished Young Affiliate of the Economics of Education Program at CESifo, Munich.

Professor Muralidharan’s primary research interests include development, public, and labour economics. Specific topics of interest include education, health, and social protection; measuring quality of public service delivery; programme evaluation; and improving the effectiveness of public spending (with a focus on developing countries). Courses taught include undergraduate and graduate classes in development economics, programme evaluation, and the economics of education.

Daniel Rogger

Daniel Rogger is a PhD student at

the Economics Department of University College London, a PhD scholar at

the Institute for Fiscal Studies, and

a 2012 junior fellow of the Royal Economic Society. He worked for the Federal Government of Nigeria from 2005 to 2011 where he began as an Overseas Development Institute fellow. He has also worked for the Department for International Development, UK, and the National Institute for Economic and Social Research. His research interests include development, public and organisational economics.



Pauline Rose

Pauline Rose is a development

economist who has focussed on a wide range of issues relevant to education

systems. She has recently taken up

the post of Professor of International Education at the University of Cambridge, having previously played a lead research role in five Education for All Global Monitoring reports, three as senior policy analyst, and two as director. She directed reports on youth and skills, and teaching and learning, bringing together a wide range of research on issues of pertinence to relevance and quality of education systems. Pauline is also actively engaged in policy debates setting the post-2015 education agenda. She has worked on large collaborative research programmes with teams in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia related to education governance, financing and inequality, adopting mixed methods approaches, and is author of numerous academic publications on different aspects of educational policy and practice.

Pieter Serneels

Pieter Serneels is Reader in

Economics at the University of East Anglia. His research is on

applied micro, behavioural and

labour economics in low income countries, with a focus on service delivery, poverty, employment and health.

Pieter is also a Research Associate at the Centre for the Study of African Economies, and the Department of International Development, both at the University of Oxford, a Full Member of the European Development Network (EUDN), and of Experiments in Governance and Politics (EGAP), and Research Fellow of the Institute of Labor (IZA). He is executive committee member co-directing the Centre for Behavioural and Experimental Social Sciences (CBESS) at the University of East Anglia. Pieter has worked at the Universities of Oxford and Copenhagen, The World Bank and the International Labour Organization. He has published in peer-reviewed journals and books, and has given advice to governments in developing countries.

Justin Sandefur

Justin Sandefur is a research fellow

at the Center for Global Development. His research focuses on the

interface of law and development

in sub-Saharan Africa. From 2008 to 2010, he served as an adviser to the Tanzanian government to set up the country’s National Panel Survey to monitor poverty dynamics and agricultural production. He has also worked on a project with the Kenyan Ministry of Education to bring rigorous impact evaluation into the Ministry’s policymaking process by scaling up proven small-scale reforms.

His recent papers concentrate on education in Kenya, and his research includes the examinations through randomized controlled trials of new approaches to conflict resolution in Liberia, efforts to curb police extortion and abuse in Sierra Leone, and an initiative to expand land titling in urban slums in Tanzania.



Kevin Watkins

Kevin Watkins is Executive

Director of the Overseas Development Institute. He is a non-resident

senior fellow at the Brookings

Institution and a senior visiting research fellow at the Global Economic Governance Programme at Oxford University. Previously, he was the director and lead author of UNESCO’s Education for All Global Monitoring Report (2007 to 2010) and the UNDP Human Development Report, where he led the research on reports covering global poverty and inequality, the global water crisis, and climate change.

Prior to working with the United Nations, Kevin worked for thirteen years with Oxfam, where he authored major reports on African debt, international trade and Oxfam’s Education Report.

Kevin holds a BA in Politics and Social Science from Durham University and a doctorate from Oxford University. His research interests include poverty and inequality, education, approaches to equity in public spending and inclusive economic growth.

Waly Wane

Waly Wane is a senior economist

in the World Bank’s Africa Region Human Development Division based

in Nairobi. Prior to that he was the

poverty economist for Tanzania and Uganda based in Dares Salaam, and an economist in the World Bank’s research group. Service Delivery is among his main areas of interest and research. He has led several public expenditure tracking surveys (PETS) in Africa and East Asia, and was a member of the original team that designed and piloted the SDI indicators in Tanzania and Senegal. Waly also led the recent Uganda SDI, and is currently implementing SDI is Tanzania and Senegal. He has published in peer-reviewed journals such as the Journal of Public Economics, Social Science and Medicine, Journal of African Economies. Waly has also been a prolific blogger on Tanzania. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Toulouse.

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Improving Governance, Delivering Better Education · 2017-12-18 · Delivering Better Education Thursday 10 April–Friday 11 April 2014 Irma Clots-Figueras Irma Clots- ... the role