Haiyan Hua

Lecturer on Education

Profile

Haiyan Hua has 20 years of work experience in international education at Harvard University. He worked as international education specialist at Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID) until 2000. Since then he has been senior associate for international education and lecturer for international education policy program at Harvard Graduate School of Education. Hua recently joined World Education, Inc. an international NGO headquartered in Boston as senior education advisor. For many years, Hua has been working as education policy advisor to more than 20 ministries of education and governments in Africa, Latin America, Asia, and Central and Eastern Europe. His professional expertise has been in educational policy research and planning; monitoring and evaluation; 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 sponsored by USAID and carried out in Nepal, Bolivia, and Honduras that examined the impact of basic education programs on women's social and economic well-being. More recently, Hua served as principal investigator of education policy development capacity projects in Latvia and Lithuania (World Bank projects). In 2008, he, as lead consultant, has helped Ministries of Education in Lebanon and Egypt develop a new system capacity of monitoring and evaluating education system performance and national quality improvement initiatives (World Bank projects). He just completed a national student absenteeism study in Armenia for UNICEF (2008). For the past 18 years, he has been teaching policy development framework for international education at international executive education seminars at HGSE, which draw educators, policymakers, analysts, and donor representatives from around the world.

Degrees

• Ed.D., Harvard University