Dr Luis Benveniste

Dr Luis Benveniste is the Global Director for Education at the World Bank. Previously, he was the Human Development Regional Director for Latin American and the Caribbean at the World Bank. He was a co-author of the World Development Report 2012: Gender Equality and Development. His research interests focus on education finance, gender, student assessment practices and teacher policies. He has authored several publications and books on topics such as finance in education, assessment, globalisation and social change and accountability and organisation of public and private schools in the united States. He has worked on a wide variety of World Bank-financed education projects in Africa, East Asia and Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean. He received a BA Magna Cum Laude in Psychology from Harvard University and a PhD in International Comparative Education from Stanford University.