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Stephen P. Heyneman served the World Bank for 22 years. Between 1976 and 1984 he helped research education quality and design policies to support educational effectiveness. Between 1984 and 1989 he was in charge of external training for senior officials world wide in education policy. And between 1989 and 1998, he was responsible for education policy and lending strategy, first for the Middle East and North Africa and later for the 27 countries of Europe and Central Asia. In 1998 he was appointed Vice President in charge of international operations of an education consultant firm in Alexandria, Virginia. In September, 2000 he was appointed Professor of International Education Policy at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. He received his BA in Political Science from the University of California at Berkeley, his MA in African Area Studies form UCLA in 1965, and his PhD in Comparative Education from the University of Chicago in 1976.

Advisor Council of Chief State School Officers, House Select Committees on Time and Learning and on Hunger, American Education Finance Association, Association of American Publishers, Cambridge University Examination Syndicate, Education Testing Service, American Association of School Administrators, American Federation of Teachers, Fulbright and Muskie Fellowship Boards, Education International. University of Pittsburgh, Aarhus University, Department for Finance and International Development (DfID), UK. Humanities and Social Science Communications, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
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Countries of Professional Experience

USA, U.K., Norway, Sweden, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Japan, Portugal, Finland, Australia, People’s Republic of China, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Pakistan, Brazil, Chile, Bolivia, Guatemala, El Salvador, Malawi, Tanzania, Somalia, Nicaragua, Ethiopia, Swaziland, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Uganda, Kenya, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Zambia, Hungary, Russian Federation, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Romania, Iran, Egypt, Tunisia, Slovakia, Croatia, Sri Lanka, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Kyrgyzstan, Bulgaria, Serbia, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Georgia, Armenia, Moldova, Slovenia, Republic of Korea, Denmark, Ghana, Netherlands, Portugal, Macedonia, Jamaica, Myanmar, Bangladesh.

Visiting Lecturer

University of Maastricht (Netherlands), Aarhus (Denmark), Kobe, Tokyo, Osaka, Hiroshima, Waseda, Nagoya (Japan), Seoul National University, Korea University, Kenyatta University (Kenya), Universities of Lisbon, Porto, Minho, Aveiro, and Catholic University (Portugal), University of London, University of South Carolina, Lehigh, Columbia University Teachers College, Harvard, Florida State University, Pennsylvania State University, State University of New York (Albany).

Professional Clients

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, UNESCO, World Bank, International Finance Corporation, Educational Testing Service, U.S. Department of Education, Center for British Teachers, USAID, Academy for Education Development,

Carana Corporation, The British Broadcasting Corporation, Economic Policy Institute (Washington D.C.), The Soros Foundation (Latvia, Kyrgyzstan, Hungary, Croatia), Center for Strategic Planning (Kazakhstan), National Bureau of Asian Research, U.S. Department of State, International Bureau of Education, American Enterprise Institute, Center for Education Policy, UNESCO Institute for Statistics, Education Development Center, The Mitchell Group, Egyptian National Council on Economic Competitiveness, African Public Health Research Council. Education International. Aarhus University, George W. Bush Institute, United Nations University/WIDER, Transparency International, Center for International Mobility (Finland), Academic Cooperation Association (Belgium). Institute for Global Engagement (Washington DC), University of Kwa-Zulu Natal, University of Notre Dame, Results-4-Development, Berkeley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs (Georgetown University), BRAC.

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