CHAIR
Elizabeth King
Director of Education, World Bank
Ms. King is Director of Education in the Human Development Network
of the World Bank. She is the Bank's senior spokesperson for global
policy and strategic education issues in developing countries. Until
January 2009, she was a manager in the Bank's research department,
heading the team that focuses on human development issues. She has
published on topics such as household investments in human capital;
the linkages between education, poverty and economic development;
gender issues in development, especially women's education;
education finance, and the impact of decentralization reforms. Since
joining the Bank, she has contributed to public expenditure reviews,
country economic assessments, policy analyses of the human
development sectors, and impact evaluations of policies and
programs. She was the Lead Economist for the World Bank's human
development department for East Asian countries for three years, and
served as co-author of three World Development Reports.
AUTHOR
Harry Anthony Patrinos
Lead Education Economist, World Bank
Mr. Patrinos is Lead Education Economist at the World Bank. He
specializes in all areas of education, especially school-based
management, demand-side financing, and public-private partnerships.
He managed education lending operations and analytical work programs
in Argentina, Colombia and Mexico, as well as a regional research
project on the socioeconomic status of Latin America?s Indigenous
Peoples, published as Indigenous Peoples, Poverty and Human
Development in Latin America (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006). He is one
of the main authors of the report, Lifelong Learning in the Global
Knowledge Economy (World Bank, 2003). Mr. Patrinos has many
publications in the academic and policy literature, with more than
40 journal articles. He is co-author of the books: Policy Analysis
of Child Labor: A Comparative Study, Decentralization of Education:
Demand-Side Financing, and Indigenous People and Poverty in Latin
America: An Empirical Analysis with George Psacharopoulos.
DISCUSSANTS
Paul Peterson
Professor of Government, Harvard University
Mr. Peterson is the Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government and
Director of the Program on Education Policy and Governance at
Harvard University, a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at
Stanford University, and Editor-In-Chief of Education Next, a
journal of opinion and research on education policy. Mr. Peterson
is the author or editor of over one hundred articles and
thirty-five-plus books, including his most recent title School
Choice International: Exploring Public-Private Partnerships (MIT,
2009). He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
and the National Academy of Education. Mr. Peterson is a member of
the independent review panel advising the Department of Education?s
evaluation of the No Child Left Behind law. The Editorial Projects
in Education Research Center reported that Peterson?s studies on
school choice and vouchers were among the country?s most influential
studies of education policy.
Neil McIntosh
Chief Executive, CfBT Education Trust
Mr. McIntosh is the Chief Executive of CfBT, Britain?s largest
educational charity. Since he became Chief Executive in the early
1990s, CfBT has been transformed from a £7.4 million p.a. manager of
English Language programs to become the world's leading not for
profit international education consultancy with a turnover of £100
million p.a. In his role, Mr. McIntosh is a leading contributor to
the debate about diversification and public/private partnerships in
the provision of education. Prior to joining CfBT, Mr. McIntosh was
Director of Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO). Before this, he was
Director of Shelter, Britain?s pre-eminent charity for homeless
people. He created, and was the first Chairman, of Homeless
International, a specialist NGO, which initiates and finances
innovative settlement projects and encourages inter agency
cooperation in the South. Mr. McIntosh is the Chairman of the UK
Freedom of Information Campaign. He has written extensively on
industrial relations, community development, and economics of
housing.
About the Publication
The provision of schooling is largely provided and financed by
governments. However, due to unmet demand for education coupled with
shrinking government budgets, the public sector in several parts of
the world is developing innovative partnerships with the private
sector. Private education encompasses a wide range of providers
including for-profit schools (that operate as enterprises),
religious schools, non-profit schools run by NGOs, publicly funded
schools operated by private boards, and community owned schools. In
other words, there is a market for education.
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