Jee-Peng Tan is a consultant to the World Bank’s Educational Global Practice, following her retirement from more than three decades of service in senior positions at the Bank, including as education advisor, working with colleagues and counterparts in government and international organizations on human capital challenges in emerging economies. She led the Policy and Sector Analysis Support Team in the Africa Region’s Human Development Department, whose work includes debt relief for education and health under the Highly Indebted Poor Countries Initiative and implementation of the then-nascent Education for All Fast Track Initiative. She managed the production of a wide array of analytical products, among them regional flagship reports and education country status reports, to shape policy dialogue and lending operations. She facilitated high-level exchange among African policy makers and their counterparts in China, India, Singapore, and Vietnam. She is the originator of the World Bank’s EdStats knowledge- and data-sharing platform and an author of some 60 published works, including books, among them Workforce Development in Emerging Economies and Tools for Education Policy Analysis. She holds a bachelor’s degree from the London School of Economics and a doctorate from Princeton University.