Ms. Carina Omoeva (Moderator)

Masters Student at Harvard Graduate School of Education

Ms. Omoeva is currently at the Ed.M. program in International Education Policy at HGSE. Previously she worked at the US Agency for International Development, as the Project Management Specialist for the Basic Education Program in Central Asia.

Dr. Ina V.S. Mullis

TIMSS and PIRLS International Study Center, Boston College

Co-Director of IEA’s TIMSS & PIRLS International Study Center at Boston College, Ina V.S. Mullis has extensive management and technical experience in conducting large-scale international and national assessments. She co-directed all four cycles of TIMSS in 1995, 1999, 2003, and 2007 and both PIRLS assessments cycles in 2001 and 2006. She is a Professor in the Lynch School of Education in the Department of Educational Research, Measurement, and Evaluation. Prior to joining Boston College in 1994, Mullis was Project Director of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) at Educational Testing Service and she serves on the NAEP Validation Studies Panel. The contributing author of more than 60 reports and articles about assessment, she received a Ph. D. in educational research from the University of Colorado.

Dr. Michael O. Martin

TIMSS and PIRLS International Study Center, Boston College

Michael O. (“Mick”) Martin, Co-Director of the TIMSS and PIRLS International Study Center at Boston College, has been with the TIMSS and PIRLS projects since their inception. He co-directed all four cycles of TIMSS (the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study) in 1995, 1999, 2003, and 2007 and both cycles of PIRLS (the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study) in 2001 and 2006. An internationally recognized expert in assessment methods, he has been a Research Professor at Boston College since 1994 and a member of IEA’s Technical Advisory Committee since 1992. Before joining Boston College, he was a Research Fellow at the Educational Research Center at St. Patrick’s College, Dublin, where he directed Ireland’s national surveys of student achievement and served as Ireland’s national project representative for four major international student surveys. Martin received a M.Sc. degree in computer applications from Trinity College, Dublin and a Ph.D. in psychology from University College, Dublin.

Dr. Luis Crouch

Research Triangle Institute

Luis Crouch, PhD is an economist with more than 20 years of experience in social and economic development, is a vice president in RTI's International Development Group (IDG). He supervises IDG programs in education, public finance and economic development, and information and communications technology. His areas of specialization include social sector finance, policy reform, and the political economy of social sector development, with a particular focus on education. Prior to his current post at RTI, Dr. Crouch held the position of Lead Education Economist at the World Bank, where he worked on developing ideas for accountability relations between citizens, parents, policy makers, bureaucracy, and schools; effectiveness of education spending by developing countries, including ranking of country effectiveness and analysis for reasons behind total education productivity. He has experience in more than fifteen countries in all areas of the developing world, with a special focus on Latin America, South Africa, and Southeast Asia.

Dr. Haiyan Hua

Harvard Graduate School of Education; International Business Manager WIDE Project

Haiyan Hua is a senior associate of the International Education Group at Harvard Graduate School of Education. For 18 years, he has been working as an education policy advisor to governments in Africa, Latin America, Asia, and Central and Eastern Europe. His professional interest and expertise has been in educational policy research and analysis; Monitoring and Evalution, Education Management Information Systems; and large quantitative research design, analysis, and management. He served as the research director of the Girls' and Women's Education Policy Research Activities Project, a five-year longitudinal study carried out in Nepal, Bolivia, and Honduras that examined the impact of basic education programs on women's social and economic well-being. Hua is principal investigator of education policy development capacity projects in Latvia and Lithuania. For the past 15 years, he has taught education planning, policy research and analysis, design of Monitoring and Evaluation System, and Management Information System at international executive education seminars, which draw educators, policy makers, analysts, and donor representatives from around the world.

Dr. Robin Horn

The World Bank

Robin Horn is Education Sector Manager for the Human Development Network of the World Bank. From 2002 until 2006 he was Lead Education Specialist in the World Bank?s Europe and Central Asia Region where he had lead responsibility for the World Bank?s education program of analytic work and lending for Turkey. Between 1992 and 2003 he was responsible for the Bank?s education program for Brazil, as well for other countries in the Latin American and Caribbean Region. During that period, he lived in Brazil. Robin Horn?s work with the Bank has involved collaboration with national governments, state governments, civil society organizations, and academics in the US and across the world. His education sector research, programs, and projects have focused on education quality, learning outcomes, management, and finance for basic, secondary, and tertiary education systems. Before joining the World Bank, Dr. Horn worked as an education economist in the United States Agency for International Development and as a researcher with the private sector providing analysis and support to the U.S. Federal Government. Dr. Horn has a PhD. in Economics of Education from Columbia University in New York City.

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