Bea Ani-Asamoah is a Senior Education Specialist at the What Works Hub for Global Education. She works with governments and partners to strengthen how evidence is generated and used to inform policy, guide practice, and support large-scale implementation. She leads research calls, supports policy-aligned synthesis, and helps design hands-on technical assistance approaches that enable systems to adopt, adapt, and scale effective practices.
Bea’s career has focused on helping education systems embed and institutionalise approaches that work. She previously established and led Laterite’s West Africa office, coordinating multi-country research portfolios and system-strengthening initiatives, including research within Rwanda’s national-level Leaders in Teaching programme.
She also co-led the national scale-up of Zambia’s Teaching at the Right Level ‘Catch Up’ programme with VVOB, strengthening ministry capacity to deliver and sustain the model. Earlier, with Worldreader, she supported governments and partners to integrate digital reading into public schools and libraries, developing a district-wide in-school delivery model in Ghana. Most recently, she advised on implementation research funds at Brink Innovation.
Bea has worked across ten countries and brings an approach grounded in system scaling and evidence-informed, context-responsive practice. She holds an MPhil in Education (Globalisation and International Development) from the University of Cambridge, as well as a BS from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a BA from Mount Holyoke College.
