The Project

Harnessing Global Data for Young Children brings together researchers, policymakers & implementers to leverage the power of global data to advance young children’s learning & development.

The Project is funded by the UK Research and Innovations’ Economic and Social Research Council through their Global Grand Challenges Research Fund and is led by the Universities of Oxford and the Witwatersrand.

Meet the team

CORE INVESTIGATORS

Prof Linda Richter

University of
Witwatersrand

Prof Alan Stein

University of
Oxford

Dr Abbie Raikes

University of
Nebraska

Bernadette Daelmans MD

WHO

Dr Chunling Lu

Harvard Medical
School

Dr Dana Mccoy

Harvard

Elizabeth Lule

ECDAN

Dr Florencia Lopez Boo

Inter-American
Development Bank

Gunther Fink

Swiss Tropical and Public
Health Institute

Dr Hirokazu Yoshikawa

New York
University

Prof. Jere Behrman

University of
Pennsylvania

Prof. Nirmala Rao

University of
Hong Kong

Dr Pia Britto

UNICEF

Prof Sandy Fredman

University of
Oxford

Amanda Devercelli

The World bank

COLLABORATORS

Caroline Cohrssen

University of
Hong Kong

Claudia Cappa

UNICEF

Erinna Dia

UNICEF

Chemba Raghavan

UNICEF

Evelyn Santiago

Asia-Pacific Regional
Network for Early
Childhood

Rowan Ainslie

Asia-Pacific Regional
Network for Early Childhood

George Owino

Africa Early Childhood
Network

Georgina Donati

University of Oxford

Ghassan Issa

Arab Network for Early Childhood

Jorges Cuartas

Harvard Graduate School of Education

Liana Ghent

International
Step by Step
Association

Dr Lynette Okengo

Africa Early Childhood
Network

Sara Naicker

University of
Witwatersrand

Shekufeh Zonji

ECDAN

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