Dr. Luis Benveniste is the Global Director for Education at the аIJʿª½±.
Previously, he was the Human Development Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean at the аIJʿª½±. He was a co-author of the .
Dr. Benveniste?s research interests focus on education finance, gender, student assessment practices and teacher policies. Other publications include ¡°Financing Education at the Bottom of the Pyramid,¡± with Samer al Samarrai, in D. Wagner, N. Castillo & S. Grant Lewis (eds.), Learning, Marginalization and Improving the Quality of Education in Low-Income Countries (2022); Teaching in Cambodia (2008), with J. Marshall and M. Araujo; "The political structuration of assessment: Negotiating State power and legitimacy," in A.H. Halsey, P. Brown, H. Lauder & J. Dillabough (eds.), Education: Globalisation and Social Change (2006) and All Else Equal (2003), with M. Carnoy and R. Rothstein, a book on accountability and the organization of public and private schools in the United States.
Dr. Benveniste has worked on a wide variety of аIJʿª½±-financed education projects in Africa, East Asia and Pacific, and Latin America and the Caribbean. He received a B.A. Magna Cum Laude in Psychology from Harvard University and a Ph.D. in International Comparative Education from Stanford University.
