Francesco Avvisati Works As an Analyst in the Centre for Educational Research and Innovation

Ian Whitman is Head of the Programme for Co-operation with Non Member Economies in the Directorate for Education in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The Directorate's mission is to assist Members and Partners in achieving high quality lifelong learning for all that contributes to personal development, sustainable economic growth and social cohesion. Ian Whitman was the Co-ordinator for Education Policy in the Task Force for Education and Youth of the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe, has carried out more than 60 policy reviews in and participates in the work of other international organisations, such as the World Bank, the European Training Foundation, UNESCO. He joined the OECD in 1990 and has worked with transition economies since 1991. Prior to joining the OECD, he worked for the Chambers of Commerce and Industry of Northern France in the area of further training and for Cold Rolling Mill Indonesia Utama for recruitment, training and placement. Ian Whitman holds a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service from GeorgetownUniversity and an MBA from HartfordUniversity. <mailto:

Satya Brink is currently the Senior Advisor to the OECD GPS project at the Education Directorate at the OECD in Paris. She has a long association with the OECD, serving as the Canadian Government Delegate to the Education Policy Committee and to the Governing Board of the Centre for Educational Research and Innovation for many years. She was also the Canadian government delegate for OECD PISA Governing Board and managed PISA related research on the large national sample for the Canadian government and the provinces. She was the Chair of the OECD PIAAC Governing Board for three years. In Canada, she was the Director of National Learning Policy Research at Human Resources and Skills Development Canada, Government of Canada, where her responsibilities were for managing research to develop evidence for Canadian government policies related to human capital and lifelong learning. She has her Ph.D. from Purdue University (USA) and she is widely published. <mailto:

Francesco Avvisatiworks as an analyst in the Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI) at the Directorate for Education in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). He joined the OECD in 2010, after completing a PhD at the Paris School of Economics, where his research centred on the benefits of parental involvement programmes for school achievement and behaviour of middle school students. Prior to joining the OECD, Francesco Avvisati worked at the Paris School of Economics, at the French Ministry of Labour, and has been a member of the "Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab - Europe". Francesco Avvisati holds a Bachelor in Economics from the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna (Pisa, Italy), and is an alumnus of the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris. <mailto: