Barbara Bruns is a Non-Resident Fellow at the Center for Global Development and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University, after a thirty-year career at the World Bank as an education economist specializing in Latin America. Her books include Great Teachers: How to raise student learning in Latin America and the Caribbean, with Javier Luque (2015), Achieving World Class Education in Brazil: the Next Agenda (2012), with David Evans and Javier Luque, and Making Schools Work: New Evidence on Accountability Reforms, with Deon Filmer and Harry Patrinos (2011). Her research focuses on the politics of education reform and classroom observation of teachers to understand how policy reforms and programs affect teacher practice. She has been a member of the RISE program Intellectual Leadership team and GAML, the UNESCO Global alliance for measurement of learning.
