BA (Hons) in Economics, McGill University, Montreal, Canada; PhD in Economics, Brown University, US. Formerly, with Faculty, Economics Department, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada. Various positions with World Bank, including: Development Economics, managed staff and research including education and health finance, private provision of social services, economics of transfer programmes and urban development; 2002, Sector Director, Human Development, East Asia Region, responsible for managing operational staff working on education and health issues; member, formally and informally, teams preparing World Development Reports; 2012-14, Director, Public Sector Evaluations, Independent Evaluation Group; since 2015 Executive Director, International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie)