Allison Anderson

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Nonresident Fellow, Global Economy and Development, Center for Universal Education
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Allison Anderson is a nonresident fellow with the Center for Universal Education. Formerly the director of the Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE), she focuses on how quality education can help mitigate the impact of disasters and climate change, promote conflict resolution, and build individual and societal resilience.
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202.797.6105 — Brookings Office of Communications

Resources

Expertise

  • Climate change adaptation and mitigation through education
  • disaster risk reduction and prevention education
  • strengthening individual and system resilience to mitigate the impact of future hazards, including conflict
  • education in emergencies through to recovery
  • humanitarian assistance
  • adolescent and youth protection, development and participation.

Experience

Current Positions

  • Adjunct professor at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), teaching a yearly course on Critical Challenges and Opportunities in Education in Emergencies through to Recovery
  • Consultant for Unbound Philanthropy, supporting education in emergencies grantees and representing the foundation within the International Education Funders’ Group.

Past Positions

  • From 2010-2011, worked as an international education consultant with UNESCO to develop their climate change education for sustainable development strategy

Education

  • Master’s Degree in International Relations, Graduate Institute of International Studies / l'Institut universitaire de hautes études internationales, Geneva, Switzerland (1995-1997)
  •  Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science, Yale University (1991-1995)

Language Fluency

  • French

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