Rebecca Winthrop
Directs Brookings' Center for Universal Education; co-author of The Disengaged Teen.
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- Rebecca Winthrop is an American expert on global education.
- She is a senior fellow and director of the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution, which she joined in June 2009, and lectures at Georgetown University.
- Before Brookings she led education work for the International Rescue Committee in more than 20 conflict-affected countries.
- Her latest book, written with the journalist Jenny Anderson, is The Disengaged Teen.
Key facts
- Current role
- Senior fellow and director, Center for Universal Education, Brookings Institution; leads the Brookings Global Task Force on AI in Education2
- Education
- BA, Swarthmore College (1996); MA, Columbia SIPA (2001); PhD, Teachers College, Columbia University (2008)2
- International Rescue Committee
- Senior technical adviser for education from 2001 to 2009, covering education programmes in more than 20 crisis-affected countries1
- Brookings
- Joined in June 2009; director of the Center for Universal Education from 20192
- Books
- What Works in Girls' Education (2015, with Gene Sperling); Leapfrogging Inequality (2018); The Disengaged Teen (with Jenny Anderson)1
- Other roles
- Chaired the Technical Advisory Group of the UN Secretary-General's Global Education First Initiative, appointed in 20121
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