Marina Bassi is a Senior Economist in the Education Global Practice of the World Bank for East and Southern Africa at the World, where her work focuses in the Eastern and Southern countries of the Africa region. Before joining the World Bank in 2017, she worked at the Inter-American Development Bank in operational and analytical work on education for Latin American and the Caribbean. She has published in journals and books on areas including teaching practices, gender gaps in education, skills and impact evaluation of education programs. She co-authored the book “Disconnected: Education, Skills and Employment in Latin America”. She holds a PhD. in Economics from the University of California at Los Angeles.