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Education Symposium


Harry Anthony Patrinos
Senior Education Economist, World Bank

Brief

Harry Anthony Patrinos is a Senior Education Economist at the World Bank. He has published widely in the area of economics of education and specializes on demand-side financing schemes. He is co-author of Indigenous People and Poverty in Latin America (1994), Decentralization of Education: Demand-Side Financing (1997), Policy Analysis of Child Labor: A Comparative Study (St. Martin’s Press, 1999), and the World Bank’s report on lifelong learning, Lifelong Learning in the Global Knowledge Economy (2003). He is one of the main authors of the World Bank’s sector review on education, Priorities and Strategies for Education (1995). He previously worked as an economist at the Economic Council of Canada. He has worked in Africa, Latin America, Asia, Europe and North America. Mr. Patrinos received a D.Phil. from the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex.

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