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Benchmarking Education Systems for Results

East Asia Regional Conference21-23 June 2010, Singapore

Partnered with the Korean Government, the Nanyang Technological University, the UK Department for International Development, the Education Program Development Fund, Russian Education Aid for Development, and UNESCO.

Speaker Biography

Andreas SchleicherHead of the Indicators and Analysis Division Directorate for EducationOECD

As Division Head, Andreas Schleicher’s responsibilities include directing the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) and the OECD Indicators of Education Systems programme (INES) and steering the development of new projects such as the OECD Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) and the OECD Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC). At the OECD, Andreas Schleicher has also held the posts of Deputy Head of the Statistics and Indicators Division in the former Directorate for Education, Employment, Labour and Social Affairs (1997-2002) and Project Manager in the OECD Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI) (1994-1996). Before joining the OECD, he served as Director for Analysis at the

International Association for Educational Achievement (IEA) within the Institute for Educational Research in the Netherlands (1993-1994) and International Co-ordinator for the IEA Reading Literacy Study, at the University of Hamburg, Germany (1989-1992). Originally a graduate in physics, he subsequently studied mathematics at Deakin University in Australia, where his master's thesis received the Bruce Choppin Award. In 2003, Andreas Schleicher was awarded the "Theodor Heuss" prize, named after the first president of the German Federal Republic of Germany, for "exemplary democratic engagement" in association with the public debate on PISA. He also holds an honorary professorship at the University of Heidelberg in Germany. In 2002, Andreas Schleicher was awarded the "educación y libertad en el ámbito educativo" prize by the Spanish national association of private schools. A German citizen, Andreas Schleicher is married, with three children. He speaks German, English, Italian, French and Spanish.




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Gwang-Jo KimDirectorUNESCO Office BangkokAsia and Pacific Regional Bureau for EducationBangkok, Thailand

Gwang-Jo Kim. Born in 1955 in the Republic of Korea, Mr. Kim holds a B.A. degree in Public Administration from Korea University, Seoul (1978), a Master’s degree (1984) and a Ph.D. (1994) in Education from Harvard University, U.S.A. Mr. Kim has worked in various capacities for the Government of the Republic of Korea. As Deputy Minister of Education and Human Resources, he initiated the “Global Human Resources Forum”, aimed at providing an international platform for sharing information, knowledge and best practices in human resources issues among leaders. He also worked in the Office of the President of the Republic of Korea, where he assisted former President Young Sam Kim in the fields of education and social policy. Mr. Kim also played a key role in an education reform initiative that aimed to restructure the entire Korean educational

system. During 2001-2004 Mr. Kim worked at the World Bank in Washington D.C. as a Senior Education Specialist, Mr. Kim acquired widespread international expertise, coordination, networking and overall programmatic management and delivery skills. He is a member of various professional associations on education policy, finance and economics, and has published works in education and ICT, and educational reform. Prior to joining UNESCO, Mr. Kim was Professor at the Graduate School of Education at Keimyung University in Daigu, Republic of Korea. Mr. Kim is currently the Director of UNESCO Office Bangkok/Asia and Pacific Regional Bureau for Education.




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Sunee KlaininPISA Thailand National Project ManagerBangkok, Thailand

Sunee Klainin is currently PISA Thailand National Project Manager. She has extensive experience in education. She was a science education specialist and curriculum developer at the Institute for the Promotion of Teaching Science and Technology (IPST). She was Deputy Director for Academic Affairs, Mahidol University International College, and Associate Professor, Centre for Language and Education Technology, at The Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok. She has publications in many international journals, mainly focusing on science education and gender issues in science learning. She has a Ph.D. (Science Education, Chemistry) from Monash University, Australia.




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Khattab AbulibdehSenior ResearcherNational Center for Human Resources DevelopmentJordan

Khattab Abulibdeh has a PhD. in Measurement and Evaluation from Jordan University in 1993. He works as a senior researcher at the National Center for Human Resources Development (NCHRD). Mr.Abulibdeh is the National Research Coordinator for Jordan in TIMSS 1999, TIMSS 2003, TIMSS 2007 and TIMSS 2011. He is also the National Project Manager for Jordan for PISA2006, PISA2009 and PISA 2012. Mr. Abulibdeh, with collaboration with his team at NCHRD, conducted the National Assessment for Knowledge Economy (NAfKE) in Jordan in two cycles 2006 and 2008. He wrote national reports for TIMSS, PISA and NAfKE. Mr. Abulibdeh participated in designing and conducting a series of research studies related to monitoring and evaluation of Educational Reform for Knowledge Economy (ERfKE) Project in Jordan.




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Yeap Ban HarProfessorNational Institute of EducationNanyang Technological UniversitySingapore

Yeap Ban Har is presently involved in teacher training at the National Institute of Education at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore where he teaches mathematics education. His research interest includes mathematical problem solving and problem posing, early numeracy and teacher professional development. Ban Har is involved in teacher training in the region and has done them same elsewhere – mostly in the US and Chile. Ban Har holds a Ph.D. in mathematics education and Masters of Education and Masters of Arts in Southeast Asian Studies.




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Esther Sui-chu HoProfessorDept of Education Administration and PolicyDirector of HKPISA CentreThe Chinese University of Hong Kong

Esther Sui-chu Ho, BSc, DipEd, MA(Ed) (CUHK), PhD (UBC), is Professor, Department of Educational Administration and Policy, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Director of the Hong Kong Center for International Student Assessment. Project Manager of HKPISA-2000, 2003, 2006, 2009. Consultant of Macao-PISA2003 and China-PISA 2006 Trial and Shanghai-PISA 2009. Fulbright Scholar at Pennsylvania State University; Research Associate of the project Education and Development in South China. Teaching assistant and research assistant in the University of British Columbia, Canada. Teaching consultant of the World Bank in the District Primary Educational Program in India. Primary and Secondary School teacher in Hong Kong. Research interests: Parental Involvement, Home School Community Collaboration, International Assessment of Student Performance, School Effectiveness and

School Reform, Decentralization and School-based Management, Research Methodology in Education, Multilevel Analysis in Educational Research.




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Kai YuAssistant Dean of the Graduate School of EducationGeneral Office, the Graduate School of EducationShanghai Jiao Tong University

Kai Yu is Assistant Dean of the Graduate School of Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, where he also serves as the Executive Director of the Center for the Study of Graduate Education. His research focuses on higher education in China, graduate education, and higher education management. Kai Yu obtained his Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degree from University of Oxford in the field of educational studies. He holds Bachelor of Engineering degree (with First Class Honours) from Queen's University of Belfast where he studied Computer Science.




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Pham Xuan ThanhDeputy Director General, General Department of Education Testing and Accreditation (GDETA)Ministry of Education and Training (MOET)

Pham Xuan Thanh is Deputy Director General, General Department of Education Testing and Accreditation (GDETA), Ministry of Education and Training (MOET), Vietnam. He graduated in Mining engineering in 1984 from Donesk University of Technology, Ukraine and PhD in Mining engineering in 1988 from the same university. Back to Vietnam in 1988, he worked for the Department of Postgraduate training, MOET. After 10 year working here, he decided to go to study for the Master degree of Education (specialized in measurement and evaluation) in the University of Melbourne, Australia and graduated in 2000. Dr. Pham Xuan Thanh was appointed the head of division of education accreditation since 2002; then the head of division of education accreditation, GDETA; since 2007 he was appointed the Deputy Director, General of GDETA. He used to joint in SEAMEO Quality Assurance official

Group in 2002-2003 and had participated in development of Regional Framework for Higher education Quality Assurance for South East Asian countries. In his country, he has leaded the development of education accreditation procedure, development of institutional and programme accreditation standards, supervise accreditation process to all universities, colleges, professional secondary schools, primary, lower secondary and upper secondary schools in whole country. Dr. Pham Xuan Thanh is also interested in higher education performance indicators, performance indicators of general school, large scale evaluation, institutional and programme accreditation, university ranking. He developed initial and designed in early stage of development of Project “Development 5 quality assurance center in 5 universities and strengthening quality assurance capacities at the macro level. He involved in implementation of the higher education project No 1, 2; Primary Teacher Development Project and has involved in development of the higher education project No 3, School Quality assurance project, loaned by WB. He also involve in Lower Secondary Teacher education Project, Project of upper secondary and professional school teacher developments, loaned by ADB.




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Albert MotivansHead, Education Indicators and Data AnalysisUNESCO Institute for Statistics

Albert Motivans heads the Education Indicators and Data Analysis (EIDA) Division of the UNESCO Institute for Statistics where he oversees the global development, collection and analysis of cross-national education indicators for benchmarking education policy and monitoring progress towards the international development targets. He has written widely on global education trends and the use of indicators for policy analysis and regularly contributes to the Global Education Digest and EFA Global Monitoring Report. He has worked in the field of measurement and child welfare for more than 20 years with the U.S. Census Bureau, UNICEF and since 2001 with UNESCO.




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Gero FederkeilCHE Centre for Higher Education DevelopmentGermany

Gero Federkeil holds a degree in sociology from University of Bielefeld (Germany). After working for some years in empirical social research he joint the German National Science Council in 1993. Working there for seven years in university planning, evaluation and policy consulting. Since 2000 he is working for the Centre for Higher Education Development (CHE), an non-profit organisation dealing with higher education policy and consulting. His main field of work is university ranking. He has published on quality assurance, evaluation, benchmarking, performance indicators and rankings. Member of the CHERPA Network team working on the U-Multirank-project to develop a global multi-dimensional university ranking. Vice-Chair of IREG – International Observatory on Academic Ranking and Excellence (International Ranking Expert Group).




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Lester FlocktonEducational Assessment Research UnitUniversity of OtagoNew Zealand

Lester Flockton is a graduate of Dunedin Teachers College and the University of Otago. He has extensive experience in New Zealand’s school system as a teacher, principal, inspector of schools, Ministry of Education official, researcher, university teacher, educational thinker and leader. Throughout his career in education he has worked on many national curriculum committees and projects, including the revised New Zealand Curriculum (2007), led numerous professional development programs, made dozens of conference presentations, and held office in various professional organizations. He and his colleague Terry Crooks were the prime developers and co-directors of New Zealand’s National Education Monitoring Project, which is widely recognized nationally and internationally. Lester maintains a wide-ranging interest and

involvement in matters impacting on teaching and learning, curriculum and assessment, and the leadership, governance and management of schools. He examines the claims of research, policy and practice with a critical mind. Lester is a Senior Research Fellow and Emeritus Director of the Educational Assessment Research Unit at the University of Otago, and the National Education Monitoring Project. He has received a number of honours in recognition of his service to education in New Zealand.




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Fred BrookerSenior Education Adviser AusAID

Fred Brooker is an education specialist with over twenty five years of short- and long-term experience supporting education ministries in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Pacific. Some of the countries include Namibia, Mozambique, Ethiopia and Zambia. Fred has wide experience in international development spanning a range of disciplines from strategic planning, policy development, monitoring and evaluation, sector wide approaches (SWAps) and direct budget support to the aid effectiveness agenda. His specific areas of expertise in education include educational planning and management, education policy reform, teacher training, adult education and institutional development. Fred is currently working for AusAID as a Senior Education Adviser in Papua New Guinea.




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Michael M. AlbaAssociate Professor De La Salle UniversityManila, Philippines

Michael M. Alba is an associate professor of economics at De La Salle University, Manila. From 2001 to 2006, he was dean of the College of Business and Economics in the same university. His academic papers span a wide range of topics, such as hospital cost functions, gender and inter-industry wage differentials, overseas workers’ remittances, household consumption and saving, and economic growth. Mr. Alba was president of the Philippine Economic Society in 2007. He has a PhD from Stanford.




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Paitoon SinlaratProfessor of Higher Education, and Vice President for Research and Academic ServicesDhurakijPundit University Thailand

Paitoon Sinlarat, is Professor of Higher Education, and Vice President for Research and Academic Services, DhurakijPundit University, Thailand. He has received a B.Ed. and M.Ed. form Chulalongkorn University, and a Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh.




Speaker Biography

Manit BoonprasertInstructorRangsit UniversityThailand

Cert. in Higher Education Management, University of Oxford and Warwick, UK

Ed.D. (Language Communication), University of Pittsburgh, USA Dip. (TESL), Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand M.Ed. (Educational Administration), Chulalongkorn University,Thailand B.A.(English), Chulalongkorn University, Thailand B.Ed. (Secondary Education), Chulalongkorn University, Thailand




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Chris SakellariouAssociate ProfessorDivision of Economics, Humanities and Social Sciences NTU

Chris Sakellariou is an Associate Professor at the division of Economics, Humanities and Social Sciences, NTU. He specializes in Applied Labor Economics, Economics of Education and Applied Microeconomics. He conducts research and publishes mostly in the area of the Economics of Education and Economics of Gender. He has frequently acted as consultant and undertaken collaborative research with World Bank staff and has authored or co-authored several papers under the World Bank Policy Research Working Papers series.




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Tan Oon SengDean of Foundation Programmes Office National Institute of Education Nanyang Technological University

Professor Tan Oon Seng is a Dean at National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University. He is the Immediate Past President of the Educational Research Association of Singapore and President of the Asia-Pacific Educational Research Association (APERA). He is also the Vice-President (Asia & Pacific Rim) of the International Association for Cognitive Education and Psychology (IACEP) based in USA. He is also Editor-in-Chief of the scientific journal Educational Research for Policy & Practice (ERPP) published by Springer. Dr Tan is a well-known international speaker and has delivered numerous keynote addresses in USA, Australia and many parts of Asia (including Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, China, Brunei and Malaysia). Recently he was invited by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to give the EHR Distinguished Lecture at Washington, D.C. He also delivered presidential sessions at the American Educational Research Association Annual Meetings in 2007 and 2008.




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Naoki UmemiyaAssistant Director Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)

Dr. Naoki Umemiya is Assistant Director, Basic Education Division I and II, Human Development Department, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). He specializes in basic and higher education, especially school-based management, quality assurance, and inter-university exchanges and cooperation. From 2005 to 2009, he was stationed in Bangkok, Thailand, and served for the ASEAN University Network/Southeast Asian Engineering Education Development Network (AUN/SEED-Net) as a JICA expert. He holds an M.Ed. from Harvard Graduate School of Education and a Ph.D. from Tokyo Institute of Technology. Recent publications include Impacts of Inter-University Exchanges and Cooperation on Reforms of Doctoral Programs in Southeast Asia, Forum of International Development Studies (39), pp57-74, 2010 (co-author) and Possibilities and Limitations of Multilateral Network

Cooperation in Higher Education in a Knowledge-based Society, Technology and Development (21), pp.45-57, 2008 (co-author).




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Jimin ChoHead of Department of Planning & AnalysisDivision of College Scholastic Ability Test in KICE

Jimin Cho has BA in Education from Korea University (1988), MA in Educational Measurement and Evaluation from Michigan State University (1990), and Ph.D. in Educational Statistics and Research from Michigan State University (1999). She had been responsible for National Assessment of Educational Achievement in Korea. Also she worked for TIMSS project in USA and PISA project in Korea. Currently, she is in charge of planning and analysis for CSAT (College Scholastic Ability Test). Her major experience has been in developing the framework for test and especially scoring and reporting based on in-depth analyses of National-level tests in KICE.




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Taufik HanafiDirector for Education and Religious AffairsMinistry of National Development PlanningBappenas, Indonesia

Taufik Hanafi has a doctoral degree in Urban, Technological and Environmental Planning, from College of Architecture and Urban Planning-the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA, and a bachelor degree in Industrial Engineering from Bandung Institute of Technology, Bandung, Indonesia. Since joining Bappenas, he has been in various important posts in the areas of community health and nutrition. The current position is Director for Education and Religious Affairs, Bappenas (2005-present).




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Chuan-Leong LamAmbassador; Chairman of the Competition CommissionMinistry of Foreign AffairsSingapore

Mr Chuan-Leong Lam is an Ambassador at Large with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Chairman of the Competition Commission of Singapore. Mr Lam retired in 2006 after serving as the Permanent Secretary of the Ministries of Finance, the Environment, National Development, Trade and Industry, and Communications and Information. Prior to that, he was the Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister, Mr Lee Kuan Yew. He has served with the Ministry of Defence as a Deputy Secretary. He has served as Chairman of the Infocomm Development Authority and was also Chairman of the National Science and Technology Board, [now re-named as A*Star]. He was a Board member of the Monetary Authority of Singapore. Mr Lam's key interest is in general management and conomic policy issues. Besides macroeconomic policy, he was involved in micro-economic issues such as general competition, liberalisation and regulatory policies. Mr Lam graduated from the University of

Singapore with First Class Honours in Physics. He has an MBA from Harvard Business School.




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Euston QuahHead of Economics and Acting Chair School of Humanities and Social Sciences Nanyang Technological UniversitySingapore

Professor Euston Quah is Head of Economics and Acting Chair of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Prior to this, he was Vice-Dean, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the National University of Singapore; Deputy Director of the Public Policy Programme (now called the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy); Founding Director of the Singapore Centre for Applied and Policy Economics (SCAPE); and headed the economics department at the National University of Singapore. He is a prolific writer with more than 60 peer reviewed publications in well-known international journals and some 5 books including Cost-Benefit Analysis (5th edition with E.J. Mishan; Routledge, UK); Siting Environmentally Unwanted Facilities (with KC Tan; Edward Elgar, UK) and published a textbook, Principles of Economics, (Thomson, USA) with Gregory Mankiw (former Chairman of US Council of Economic Advisors and Harvard Professor. He is an advisor to the government on the environment as well as contributed to cost-benefit studies on key public projects. In 2009 - 2010, he served as a Member for the Singapore Government’s Economic Strategies Sub-Committee on Energy and Environment. Professor Quah is Editor of the Singapore Economic Review.




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Chew Soon BengProfessor of Economics and Industrial RelationsNanyang Technological University Singapore

Chew Soon Beng is Professor of Economics and Industrial Relations at Nanyang Technological University. He is author/co-author of The Singapore Worker: A Profile (Oxford University Press), Workers’ Perceptions of Wage Determination in Singapore (Times Academic Press), Small Firms in Singapore (Oxford University Press), Trade Unionism in Singapore (McGraw Hill), Employment-Driven Industrial Relations Regimes (Avebury), Values and Lifestyles of Young Singaporeans (Prentice-Hall) and a recipient of the Singapore National Book Prize.




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Ho Kong WengAssistant Professor Nanyang Technological University Singapore

Dr Ho obtained his PhD from the University of Chicago. He has been teaching HE405 Growth Theory and Empirics and HE192 Economic Theory next semester. He is supervising 1 graduate student, and 2 undergraduates in their final-year projects. He had mentored JC/IP students under the Nanyang Research Program (NRP). One project of NRP 2007 won a Merit Award. Three projects of NRP 2008 mentored by Dr Ho won gold awards. One project of NRP 2009 won a Gold Award. Dr Ho had published in the areas of social mobility, international outsourcing, wage inequality, technopreneurship, and unemployment, including both theoretical investigations and empirical studies using Singapore data. His current research topics include intergenerational transmission of religious human capital, economic growth of a small open economy in a world of ideas, trade and indeterminacy, non-monotonic

relationship between human capital and unemployment, and happiness studies.




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Emmanuel JimenezSector DirectorEast Asia and the Pacific Region, Human Development World Bank

Emmanuel Jimenez, from the Philippines, has held a variety of positions as an economist and manager in the policy, research and operational units of the World Bank. He is currently Sector Director, Human Development, in the World Bank’s East Asia Region, where he is responsible for managing operational staff working on education and health issues. Prior to this position, he held a similar position in the Bank’s South Asia Region. In 2005-06, he also led the team that prepared the World Development Report 2007: Development and the Next Generation. Before 2000, he served for many years in the Bank’s Development Economics Staff, where he managed staff and also engaged in research on a variety of issues, including education and health finance, the private provision of social services, the economics of transfer programs and urban development. Before joining the World Bank,

Mr. Jimenez was on the faculty of the economics department at the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada.




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Jamil SalmiLead Education SpecialistHuman Development NetworkWorld Bank

Jamil Salmi, a Moroccan education economist, is the World Bank’s tertiary education coordinator. He is the principal author of the Bank’s Tertiary Education Strategy entitled “Constructing Knowledge Societies: New Challenges for Tertiary Education”. In the past seventeen years, Mr. Salmi has provided policy and technical advice on tertiary education reform to the governments of more than 60 countries in Europe, Asia, Africa, and South America. Mr. Salmi is a member of the Governing Board of the International Institute for Educational Planning, the International Rankings Expert Group, the International Advisory Network of the UK Leadership Foundation for Higher Education, and the Editorial Committee of OECD’s Journal of Higher Education Management and Policy. Mr. Salmi’s latest book, published in February 2009, addresses the “Challenge of Establishing World-Class Universities”.




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Robin HornEducation Sector ManagerHuman Development NetworkWorld Bank

Robin Horn is the Education Sector Manager of the World Bank's Human Development Network. He is responsible for leading the work program charged with developing the concepts and strategies for education sector policy at the World Bank and for supporting country programs and professional development in the areas of “Quality Learning for All” – Addressing Opportunities for All Students to Learn,” “Skills and Knowledge for Competitiveness and Growth” - Building Competencies for Lifelong Learning, Employment, Productivity, and Innovation-Led Growth, and “Education Systems for Results” - Generating Evidence, Tools, and System Governance to Achieve Better Results. From 2002 until 2006 he was Lead Education Specialist in the World Bank’s Europe and Central Asia Region where he had lead responsibility for the World Bank’s education program of analytic work and

lending for Turkey. Between 1992 and 2003 he was responsible for the Bank’s education program for Brazil, as well for other countries in the Latin American and Caribbean Region. During that period, he lived in Brazil. Robin Horn’s work with the Bank has involved collaboration with national governments, state governments, civil society organizations, and academics in the US and across the world. His education sector research, programs, and projects have focused on education quality, learning outcomes, management, and finance for basic, secondary, and tertiary education systems. Before joining the World Bank, Dr. Horn worked as an education economist in the United States Agency for International Development and as a researcher with the private sector providing analysis and support to the U.S. Federal Government. Dr. Horn has a Ph.D. in Economics of Education from Columbia University in New York City.




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Marguerite ClarkeSenior Education SpecialistHuman Development NetworkWorld Bank

Marguerite Clarke is a Senior Education Specialist in the Human Development Network at the World Bank. Previously, she held academic appointments at universities in Australia and the U.S. She also worked as a classroom teacher in the Chinese, Irish, Japanese and U.S. education systems. Marguerite’s work focuses on equity and quality issues in education, particularly in relation to the development and use of assessment and accountability systems. She leads the Bank’s work on learning assessment and is a member of the READ Technical Group. In addition to assisting individual countries, such as India, Jordan, Kosovo and Mongolia, to improve their student assessments, her recent projects include developing tools for evaluating the quality of assessment systems and overseeing the production of a book series on how to carry out a national assessment of educational achievement. She has a

Doctorate in educational research, measurement and evaluation; a Bachelor’s degree in primary education; and a Master’s degree in bilingual and multicultural education. The recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship and other awards, Dr. Clarke has published extensively on university rankings; the impact of testing on teaching and learning; and the use of tests for promotion, graduation and university admission decisions. She is on the editorial board of the journal, Theory into Practice.




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Emiliana VegasSenior Education EconomistHuman Development NetworkWorld Bank

Emiliana Vegas is a Venezuelan national and has a doctorate in education from Harvard University with a concentration in economics of education. Prior to going to Harvard, Emiliana worked in Research Triangle Institute’s Center for International Development. She has a master’s degree in public policy studies from Duke University and a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Andrés Bello Catholic University in Caracas, Venezuela. She joined the Bank as a Young Professional in 2000, worked in LAC during 2003-2008, and joined HDNED in 2008. She is the author of several articles in peer-reviewed journals and institutional reports, many of them focusing on education quality, teacher labor markets and teacher incentives. Her most recent book (co-authored with Lucrecia Santibáñez) focuses on Early Childhood Development in Latin America and the Caribbean (2010, The World Bank

Press). She co-authored (with Jenny Petrow) Raising Student Learning in Latin America: The Challenge for the 21st Century (2007, The World Bank Press) and edited Incentives to Improve Teaching: Lessons from Latin America (2005, The World Bank Press).




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Juliana Guaqueta Education EconomistHuman Development NetworkThe World Bank

Juliana Guaqueta is an Education Economist with HDNED. Her fields of interest include the role of public-private partnerships in basic education, program evaluation and the relationship between education policy and student learning. She conducts research on public-private partnerships in education with a focus on contracting; analyzes the growth and impact of philanthropic activities, international and domestic partnerships in education; evaluates PPPs around the world; and manages ongoing impact evaluations in Africa and Asia. She received a Master's degree in International Education Policy from Harvard University in 2007. After graduation she advised a private foundation in Colombia on the design of educational interventions and on the development of a social philanthropy strategy within a public-private partnership framework. Prior to attending Harvard, she worked (2004-2006)

at Creative Associates International, Inc. on the Basic Education and Policy Support Project, to assist developing and newly developed nations to improve quality, access, management and effectiveness of their educational systems. She has a Bachelor's Degree in Finances and International Relations from Externado de Colombia University in Bogota, Colombia and certificates from American University in Washington DC.




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Eduardo Velez BustilloSector ManagerEducation, East Asia and the PacificWorld Bank

Eduardo Velez has a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Illinois. His field of study was Applied Social Statistics. His areas of interest include Sociology of Social and Economic Development, Sociology of Education, and Analysis and Evaluation of Development Programs. Dr. Velez has had a long trajectory at the World Bank in Washington D.C., Mexico City and in Beijing. He is currently Education Sector Manager for East Asia and the Pacific, and has been Education Sector Manager for Latin American and the Caribbean, Sector Coordinator (Human Development) for the China program, Sector Leader (Human and Social Development for Colombia, Mexico and Venezuela), and Human Development Cluster Leader for Uganda and Tanzania. He also served as Principal Education Specialist for Eastern and Southern Africa. Before joining the World Bank, Dr. Velez was Adjunct Director at Instituto Ser de

Investigación in Bogotá, Colombia, his country of origin. Dr. Velez has also held an academic career. He has been a Visiting Professor at the following places: Universidad Nacional, Bogotá; Brown University; University of Connecticut; Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá; Universidad Pedagógica Nacional, Bogotá; and at the Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá. Dr. Velez has written extensively on the subject of Economics, Education, Development and Sociology (has published nine books and more than 90 articles in professional journals or as chapters in books, and research reports).




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Emilio Ernesto Porta PallaisSenior Education SpecialistHuman Development NetworkThe World Bank

Emilio Porta has been the EdStats Leader in the Human Development Network of the World Bank since 2007. During this time he has revamped the EdStats site increasing users by 500% and provided cross support in the areas of learning outcomes and budgeting by results. From 2005 until 2007 he was Education Finance, Planning and Budgeting Advisor in Guatemala where he coordinated a broad spectrum of research on education policy issues and advised the Ministry of Education in its implementation of a results-based budget. Between 2000 and 2005 he was Advisor to the Minister of Education, Nicaragua and Director General in the Ministry of Education. His work consisted of planning, implementing, and evaluating educational policies, donor coordination, and the development of the education statistical system. He led the implementation of the Nicaraguan 2002-2005 Sector Wide

Approach obtaining more than 100 million dollars in cooperation and led the implementation of the first national student assessment. He has also conducted research projects funded by the World Bank, IDB, UNESCO and USAID in the educational planning, EMIS, areas of learning outcomes, school based management among others.




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Roberta Malee BassettTertiary Education SpecialistHuman Development NetworkWorld Bank

Roberta Malee Bassett is a tertiary education specialist working with the Education team in the World Bank's Human Development Network. Ms.Bassett has contributed to projects on university rankings and world-class universities, as well as on country reports for Malaysia, Ukraine, Russia, and Thailand. Her current work focuses on two activities: equity in tertiary education, and benchmarking of tertiary education systems. Before joining the Bank, Ms. Bassett held the post of Lecturer in Higher Education Management and Policy at the Centre for Higher Education Management and Policy, the University of Southampton (UK). She received her PhD. in (international) higher education from Boston College (BC) in 2005, and her dissertation research concerned international trade policies and their implications for American higher education. While serving as a research

assistant in BC's Center for International Higher Education, Ms. Bassett was the Managing Editor for two educational journals--Educational Policy (2004-2005) and The Review of Higher Education (2000-2004). In earlier academic administration work, Ms. Bassett served as Assistant Dean and Director of Summer Session at Stanford University (1995-2000). Ms. Bassett received her BA in Political Science from Columbia University and her MA in Social Sciences in Educational Practice: Higher Education Administration from Stanford University. She is the author several journal articles as well as the book "The WTO and the university: Globalization, GATS, and American higher education" (Routledge 2006) and the co-editor (with Alma Maldonado-Maldonado) of "International organizations and higher education policy: Thinking globally, acting locally?" (Routledge, 2009).




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Kevin MacdonaldEconomistHuman Development NetworkWorld Bank

Kevin Macdonald is an economist with the Human Development Network's Education Sector at the World Bank. His current work focuses on econometric analyses of international student assessment data, the development of indicators for effective education systems in East Asia, and capacity building on analytical skills in the Middle East. His recent work also includes analyzing household survey data to measure MDG progress for indigenous peoples and members of different religions. He has a master's degree in economics from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.




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Harry Anthony PatrinosLead Education EconomistHuman Development NetworkThe World Bank

Harry Anthony Patrinos is Lead Education Economist at the World Bank. He leads the Benchmarking Education Systems for Results work program. He specializes in all areas of education, especially school-based management, demand-side financing and public-private partnerships. He has published more than 40 journal articles, and co-authored several books, including: The Role and Impact of Public-Private Partnerships in Education (World Bank 2009), Indigenous Peoples, Poverty and Human Development in Latin America (Palgrave 2006), Policy Analysis of Child Labor: A Comparative Study (St. Martin's, 1999), Decentralization of Education: Demand-Side Financing (World Bank, 1997), and Indigenous People and Poverty in Latin America: An Empirical Analysis with George Psacharopoulos (World Bank/Ashgate, 1994). He manages the Economics of Education Thematic Group. Dr. Patrinos

previously worked as an economist at the Economic Council of Canada. He has a Ph.D. from the University of Sussex.




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Jee Peng TanEducation AdvisorHuman Development NetworkThe World Bank

Jee Peng Tan is currently Education Advisor in the Human Development Network of the World Bank where she leads the Network’s program on skills development and technical and vocational education and training. Between 2005 and 2009 she served as Education Advisor in the Africa Region’s Human Development Department where she provided leadership on the Department’s analytical and policy work on education in Africa, mentored junior staff, and represented the Department on matters pertaining to education in Africa. A staff member of the World Bank since 1981, Ms. Tan has worked as an economist in several regions of the institution, including South Asia, East Asia and the Middle East and North Africa; taught courses on policy analysis in education; pioneered the use of Quality Enhancement Reviews to improve the quality of World Bank operations in education; and

created the EdStats website as a knowledge sharing platform, and served as a core member of the team for the 1993 World Development Report on Investing in Health. Ms. Tan has a B.Sc. in economics from the London School of Economics, and a Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University.




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Sungmin ParkSenior Education Specialist Human Development NetworkThe World Bank

Sungmin Park joined the Education team, Human Development Network from the Korean government in March 2010. As a Senior Education Specialist, Sungmin specializes in the areas of higher education and vocational education. In this role, he is involved in a variety of education projects such as higher education, skills development and Benchmarking Education System for Results. Additionally, he develops collaborative projects between Korea and World Bank in field of Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) in education and Global HR Forum in Seoul.

Prior to joining the World Bank, Sungmin worked for over 19 years at the Ministry of Education in Korea which was recently renamed to Ministry of Education, Science & Technology. He has worked in a various fields of educational policy. He worked as assistant director of teacher policy division and international cooperation division and he was director of HRD policy division in 2007. He also worked in the Office of the President as assistant secretary to the president for education from 2008 to 2010. He graduated from the University of Iowa in 2004 with a Ph.D. in educational administration and also holds a M.A in public policy from Yonsei University (1997) and a B.A.degree from Korea University (1991).




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siteresources.worldbank.orgsiteresources.worldbank.org/.../speaker_bios3.docx · Web viewHe is a member of various professional associations on education policy, finance and economics,