Emily Vargas-Barón

Emily Vargas-Barón directs the Institute for Reconstruction and International Security through Education (The RISE Institute) that is located in Washington, DC and Bogotá, Colombia. She also is a consultant in the fields of educational and integrated ECD policy planning and program development. She has a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Stanford University, where she was also an Associate of the Stanford International Development Education Center. She is the author of several books, chapters and articles, including: Planning Policies for Early Childhood Development: Guidelines for Action (2005, UNESCO, UNICEF and ADEA); Early Childhood Intervention, Special Education and Inclusion: a Focus on Belarus (with Ulf Janson, 2008, UNICEF); Going to Scale and Achieving Sustainability in Selected Early Childhood Programs of Latin America (2008, World Bank); and Formative Evaluation of Parenting Programmes in Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia and Kazakhstan (2006, UNICEF).