Global experience underpinning innovative economic approaches

My book, The Cost of Not Educating the World’s Poor (Routledge Press), reflects my career-long commitment to understanding how education and economics intersect in a linked global world. I have lived and worked extensively in several region of the world including my native North America, Micronesia, Korea, Jordan, Zimbabwe, and Zambia.

My expertise is in the Economics of Digital Learning, where I’ve had over four decades of academic and field experience. I’ve held professorships at top-tier research universities across the United States, Korea, and Africa. Consulting has taken me to more than 20 countries. The consulting has been for major international institutions such as the World Bank, United Nations, Harvard University, USAID, DFID, and both the Asian and African Development Banks, among many others.

I hold degrees in Anthropology (B.A.), Educational Research & Statistics (M.S.), Economics (M.S.), and a Ph.D. in International Development Education. This interdisciplinary foundation forms the basis innovating global learning approaches – in the classroom and within the burgeoning digital environment.