Robin Horn
Manager, The Education Sector, The World Bank, USA
Robin Horn is the Education Manager of the World Bank’s Human Development Network. He is responsible for the formulation of knowledge resources and education policy advice to help countries get better results from their education investments to build labor force competencies for economic competitiveness.
He leads the World Bank’s “Benchmarking Education Systems for Results” initiative, which is a comprehensive program of analytic tools and reports that provides countries with systematic, evidence-based policy guidance and implementation support related to increasing the efficiency and performance of their education systems.
From 2002 until 2006 he was Lead Education Specialist in the World Bankís Europe and Central Asia Region where he managed the World Bankís education program of research and project development for Turkey. Between 1992 and 2003 he was responsible for the Bankís education program for Brazil, as well for other countries in the Latin American and Caribbean Region. During that period, he lived in Brazil. Robin Hornís 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.