Rebecca Trupin is Senior Policy Manager at the What Works Hub for Global Education. Her interests focus on how public sector capacity to achieve important societal aspirations can be nurtured and built, and the organisational practices and systems that can foster this growth. At the What Works Hub for Global Education, she is helping to build out the team’s policy engagement and government support function, with a focus on using evidence for bold, large-scale education reform.
Previously, Rebecca was an embedded consultant to the departments of health, social welfare, and community development in the Northeast Indian state of Meghalaya, working closely with government officials to design and implement multiple state-wide, innovative service delivery programmes, across primary healthcare, early childhood development, nutrition, and youth development. She has also worked on organisational development in East Africa and the United States, working with organisations ranging from coffee cooperatives, community-based conservation groups, a children’s hospital, and a consortium of funders addressing adolescent sexual health. Rebecca has over 8 years of experience in facilitation of evidence-based strategic planning and learning exchanges for private sector, public sector, and cross-sector initiatives.
She holds a BA in Political Science from Yale University, and a Masters in Public Administration in International Development (MPAID) from Harvard Kennedy School of Government.