Dr. Judith L. Evans has devoted her career to the field of international early childhood care and development. Employment has included: Director of the Department of Programme Documentation and Communication at the Bernard van Leer Foundation, the Director of the Consultative Group on Early Childhood Care and Development, Programme Officer with the Aga Khan Foundation, and Vice-President of the High/Scope Educational Research Foundation. Most recently she has worked as a consultant with UNICEF, creating an Early Childhood Training and Resource Pack for those involved in developing Early Childhood programmes. She has also worked with the World Bank and many of the International NGOs, working on programme development and evaluation projects, and she has worked with governments on the development of early childhood policy. She is Adjunct Professor at the University of Victoria, Canada working in a distance education programme that provides advanced degrees to mid-career professionals working in the Early Childhood field in Africa and the Middle East. She has written numerous articles that bring together research and practice on various early childhood issues. She was the lead author on an early childhood programming manual, Early Childhood Counts that provides a framework for the development of early childhood programmes in the Majority World. Most recently she was one of 3 editors for a book entitled Africa's Future, Africa's Challenge: Early Childhood Care and Development in Sub-Saharan Africa, published by the World Bank (2008).