Sara Hommel is the director of the Early Child Development Initiative at the Wolfensohn Center for Development at the Brookings Institution in Washington D.C. where her work focuses on strategies for scaling up and sustaining Early Child Development programs and policies in the developing world. She joined the Wolfensohn Center in 2005 from the Economic Studies program at the Brookings Institution. Her background is in human development, with focus on post-conflict and developing regions. She previously worked with NGOs focused on children living in conflict and poverty in Bosnia Herzegovina, Croatia, and Albania. She holds degrees in Sociology, Political Science and International Relations from St. Lawrence and Central European Universities.