Rebecca Winthrop

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Director, Center for Universal Education | Senior Fellow, Global Economy and Development
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Dr. Winthrop works to promote access to quality education for young people in developing countries. She advises governments, foundations, and corporations on education and development issues, and provides guidance to a number of important education policy actors, including the UN and World Bank. | View Full Bio

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202.797.6105 — Brookings Office of Communications

Resources

Expertise

  • International education
  • humanitarian assistance
  • forced migration
  • children's well-being
  • post-conflict reconstruction
  • education in emergencies and state fragility

Experience

Past Positions

  • Head of education for the International Rescue Committee
  • Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies Steering Group, Minimum Standards Working Group, and Working Group on Education and Fragility
  • United Nations Humanitarian Aid Reform – Education Advisory Committee
  • United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Safe Schools Advisory Committee
  • Lecturer at Columbia University and University of Ulster

Education

  • PhD, Columbia University, Teachers College, 2008
  • MA, Columbia University, School of International and Public Affairs, 2001
  • BA, Swarthmore College, 1996

Language Fluency

  • English
  • Spanish

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"There are a crop of people at the bottom of the barrel still that are not being affected by the progress that’s being made [in the goal of universal access to primary education for all children]."

Source: New York Times

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