Let's Change the World: How to Work within International Development Organizations to Make a Difference - Hardcover

Vegas, Emiliana

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1538190281 ISBN 13: 9781538190289

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2024

Synopsis

So many people receive a great education and try to affect change. Yet they often find the field difficult to understand, hard to get into, and even harder to navigate to truly make a difference. Enter Let’s Change the World, an informative guide to building and navigating a career in international development for current and aspiring changemakers.

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About the Author

Emiliana Vegas (EdD) has been highly recognized for her career working to inform education policy in the so-called Global South, particularly in Latin America and the Caribbean. She has been a leading economist at the World Bank, before joining the Inter-American Bank as the division chief of education and, more recently, serving as co-director of the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution. Vegas has served on numerous leading international education boards, including currently on the Governing Board for UNESCO International Institute for Education Planning and the Board of Directors for the Jacobs Foundation in Switzerland. In addition, she has served on numerous high-impact global councils and programs, including the World Economic Forum's Global Future Council on Education and Skills, the WISE Prize, the Future Global Leaders Fellowship, and Teach for All’s Global Advisory Council. Since 2019, Vegas has also served as a member of the Global Advisory Council for the Organization of Ibero-American States. She is currently a professor of practice at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and lives in Cambridge Massachusetts.

Edition details

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1538190281
• ISBN 13: 9781538190289
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 248