Elizabeth Ninan (Dulvy) is a senior education specialist in the World Bank’s Education Global Practice and has 20 years of experience working on issues related to human development in several countries, particularly in Africa. She has led World Bank projects, studies, and policy dialogue in basic education, secondary education, and skills development in India, Rwanda, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sudan, and Uganda. Before joining the World Bank, she was co-director of the Joint Economics AIDS and Poverty Programme in South Africa, which sought to build the capacity of historically disadvantaged individuals and higher education institutions to deliver high-quality research for policy makers in health and social development. She holds a master’s degree in development planning from Wits University in Johannesburg and dual master’s degrees in public policy and quantitative methods from Columbia University.