About

Emiliana Vegas is co-director of the Brookings Institution’s Center for Universal Education, which develops policies to promote universal quality education in the developing world. She specializes in the economics of education, education policy, and development in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Before moving to Brookings in the summer of 2019, Vegas served as chief of the Education Division at the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington, DC, where she managed professionals working in the Bank’s lending operations and analytical activities to support education systems throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. She previously worked for the World Bank as a lead economist and senior education economist, focusing on Latin America and the Caribbean and human development.

Vegas earned a master’s degree in public policy from Duke University and a PhD in education from Harvard University.