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Jennifer Opare-Kumi
Sierra Leone, Ghana, Cross-country
Jennifer Opare-Kumi is an applied social scientist and education policy expert with over 15 years of experience across four continents. She currently serves as a Senior Policy and Research Lead with the What Works Hub for Global Education at the Blav...
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Swathi Attavar
Swathi Attavar is a Senior Policy Specialist at the What Works Hub for Global Education. Her work focuses on deepening policy engagement with governments, via education labs and other mechanisms to promote utilisation of evidence in decision making. ...
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Yi Yang
Yi Yang is the Project Officer (Communications and Events) at the What Works Hub for Global Education, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford. Prior to joining Oxford, Yi had a five-year work experience at UNESCO’s International Burea...
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Calum Miller
Calum Miller is a Senior Fellow of Practice in Public Management. Calum was previously the Chief Operating Officer of the School and has been the Co-Director of Research on Improving Systems of Education (RISE), a multi-country, seven-year research p...
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Kathy Hall
Kathy Hall is Chief Operating Officer. Kathy works closely with the Dean and senior faculty to set the School’s strategic direction. She leads the School’s professional staff in implementing the strategy and in supporting the teaching, research, ...
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Stefan Dercon
Stefan Dercon is Professor of Economic Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government and the Economics Department, and a Fellow of Jesus College. He is also Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies. He combines his academic career wit...
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Noam Angrist
Noam Angrist is the Academic Director of the What Works Hub for Global Education. His interests focus on bridging the gap between evidence on ‘what works’ to enable young people to thrive and translation into scaled intervention and polic...
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Jessica Nicklin
South Africa
Jessica is a pre-doctoral research fellow in economics and public policy for the What Works Hub for Global Education Outcomes Fund Study Team. Prior to this role, Jessica worked as a research assistant for Dr Kate Orkin, where she assisted in advisin...
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Michelle Kaffenberger
Michelle Kaffenberger is the Director of Evidence Translation for the What Works Hub for Global Education, University of Oxford, and a Senior Fellow with the McCourt School of Public Policy, Georgetown University. Michelle conducts research and leads...
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Sharnic Djaker
Sharnic Djaker is a Research Scientist at the What Works Hub for Global Education at the Blavatnik School of Government and an Associate Member of St Antony’s College. His research centers on persuasion and information design, exploring how careful...
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