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Haiyan Hua was lecturer at Harvard Graduate School of Education and vice-president at World Education, an international NGO headquartered in Boston. Hua had more than 20 years of work experience in international education development as an education policy adviser to more than 20 ministries of education and governments in Africa, Latin America, Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, and the Middle East. His professional expertise has been in educational policy research and planning; monitoring and evaluation; education management information systems; institutional capacity building, 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. Hua also served as principal investigator of education policy capacity development projects in Latvia and Lithuania (World Bank projects) and several others. With funding from USAID, he was a lead consultant that helped Ministries of Education in Egypt and Jordan develop institutional M&E systems. He led policy research studies on student absenteeism in Armenia funded by UNICEF, classroom observation study on student-centered teaching methodology and national mapping of student assessments in Jordan funded by USAID. For almost two decades, he taught courses on education policy planning, monitoring and evaluation, and data for decision-making in the development context at Harvard as well as many parts of the world. He holds both Ed.M. and Ed.D. from Harvard University.