Rebecca Winthrop
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Rebecca Winthrop | |
|---|---|
| Education | Swarthmore College (BA) Columbia University (MA, PhD) |
| Occupation | Professor |
| Employer | Brookings Institution |
Rebecca Winthrop is an American expert on global education.[1] She is currently the director of the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University's Walsh School of Foreign Service.[2][3]
Winthrop served as a technical adviser and education expert at the International Rescue Committee from 2001 to 2009, overseeing education programs in twenty crisis-affected countries. In 2009, President Obama invited her to serve as an advisor to The White House Council on Women and Girls, and in 2012, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appointed her chair of the Global Education First Initiative's Technical Advisory Group formed to raise the political profile of global education.
Winthrop is a contributor to several periodicals and an author of books examining topics related to global education, humanitarian aid, sustainable development, and global citizenship, especially in India and Africa.[4][5][6][7][8] Her most recent book is The Disengaged Teen: Helping Kids Learn Better, Feel Better, and Live Better (Penguin, 2024).[9][10]
Winthrop obtained a BA from Swarthmore College in 1996, an MA from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University in 2001, and a PhD. in 2008 from Teachers College, Columbia University.[11][12]
Career
From 2001 to 2009, Winthrop served as a senior technical advisor for education at the International Rescue Committee in New York. As the concurrent chair of the Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies, Winthrop developed an agenda designed to ensure education is not left off the global agenda,[13] and was involved in implementing the first global standards for education in emergencies used in over one hundred countries.[14] In 2009, Winthrop joined the Brookings Institution as a senior fellow.[15]
At Brookings, Winthrop worked with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's Office of Global Women's Issues to design a girls’ education collaborative focused on next generation gender equality.[16][17] She also worked with President Obama's Office of Women and Girls’ and with the Office of the First Lady on the global girls’ education initiative.[18][19] In 2014, Winthrop convened with UNESCO Institute of Statistics a global task force with participation from over one hundred countries to develop a shared agenda around prioritizing and measuring learning outcomes.[20] The report contributed to the development of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.[21] In 2019, Winthrop was appointed director of the Center for Universal Education.[2]
