Person:
Darvas, Peter
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Fields of Specialization
Education,
Tertiary education,
Skills and workforce development,
Fragile states,
Gender,
Sub-Saharan Africa,
Liberia,
Ghana,
Eastern Europe,
Central Asia
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Departments
Global Practice on Education, The World Bank
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Last updated
January 31, 2023
Biography
Peter Darvas works as a senior economist at the World Bank at the Education Global Practice where he led projects and analyses on education, competitiveness, skills, technology development and gender empowerment in Sub-Saharan Africa and in Europe and Central Asia. Before the World Bank, he worked as the Director of International Higher Education Support Program (HESP) of the Open Society Foundations (OSF). Before OSF, he worked as Senior Advisor to the Minister of Culture and Education in Hungary. He had a visiting fellowship in 1995 at the Intitut fur die Wissenschaften vom Menschen in Vienna, Austria. He was a Jean Monnet Fellow, European University Institute, Florence, Italy in 1994. In 1992, he held a National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship. He has a doctorate of economics from the Budapest University of Economics.