People
RISE is a collaborative enterprise with a global team of people drawn from many different organisations, sectors, and regions. The detailed research and data collection in the RISE focus countries is undertaken by our Country Research Teams (CRTs). The RISE Intellectual Leadership Team (ILT) provides expertise in various aspects of education systems, development, measurement, and analysis to deliver thought leadership, research advice, and scholarly assessment of RISE research activities and outputs. The RISE Directorate, with team members from Oxford Policy Management, Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford, and the Center for Global Development lead, manage, and synthesise the research.
The Intellectual Leadership Team (ILT) is comprised of world-renowned scholars providing research advice and oversight. Click the box and scroll down to see a list of Intellectual Leadership Team members.
The Directorate leads, manages, and implements the research programme. Click the box and scroll down to see a list of Directorate team members.
Intellectual Leadership Team/RISE Directorate
Lant is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Global Development and professor of international development at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.
Intellectual Leadership Team
Barbara is a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Global Development and former lead education economist at the World Bank, where she specialised in Latin American education and rigorous evaluation of education programmes.
Country Research Team Tanzania
James is an associate professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy (Georgetown) and co-Director of the Initiative on Innovation Development and Evaluation (Gui2de).
Rukmini Banerji
Rukmini has been the intellectual driving force behind the Annual Status of Education Report (ASER – which also means “action…
Moussa P. Blimpo
Moussa is a young Togolese economist who has an active research agenda on the economics and local politics of education, with…
Barbara Bruns
Barbara is a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Global Development and former lead education economist at the World Bank, where…
Newman Burdett
Newman is an experienced international educational assessment expert working at the National Foundation for Educational…
Luis Crouch
Luis is the Chief Technical Officer at RTI’s International Development Group. He specialises in education policy,…
Paul Glewwe
Paul Glewwe is one of the most widely published and cited economists working on the determinants of student…
Kara Hanson
Kara brings to the team experience with research into systems issues in an entirely different domain. She is a leading…
Mark Moore
Mark is author of Creating Public Value: Strategic Management in Government, one of the most influential books ever written on…
Karthik Muralidharan
Karthik is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of California, San Diego, and Co-Chair of Education Research…
Lant Pritchett
Lant Pritchett is the RISE Research Director at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford and a senior fellow…