Independent Consultant and Lecturer, currently focused on Innovative Finance for Education (IFE) and on the International Architecture for Education.

Chair, International Advisory Committee, NORRAG TRANSFORM Leave No One Behind Innovative Finance for Education project.

Visiting Special Professor of International Education Policy, Nottingham University, UK. Former visiting professor teaching about IFE at Kobe and Hiroshima universities (Japan) and Central European University (Hungary).

IFE publications for The Leading Group on Innovative Finance in Development, Open Society Foundation, The Education Commission, and NORRAG.

Senior Fellow at Results for Development (R4D) and Senior Research Fellow at the International Institute for Impact Evaluation (3ie).

Formerly founding Managing Director for Global Education at R4D; Assistant Director-General for Education at UNESCO; Director of the independent Global Education Monitoring Report at UNESCO; Sector Manager for Human Development, West and Central Africa, The World Bank.

BA Oxford; MA, PhD, School for Advanced International Studies, The Johns Hopkins University.