Clarissa Delgado

Selected out of over 21,000 applications from 191 countries, Clarissa is a member of the inaugural 2018 class of Obama Foundation Fellows. Clarissa is also a 2019 recipient of the national The Outstanding Women in the Nation’s Service Award (TOWNS) and the Ten Outstanding Young Men and Women Award (TOYM) presented by the President of the Republic of the Philippines, as well as the regional Asia Society Asia 21 Young Leaders Award both in 2016 and the Global Mover Award from Rappler, the organization of Nobel Laureate Maria Ressa.

Promoting What to Whom?

Most technical and vocational education and training (TVET) promotion efforts currently emphasize the course, not the resulting job. Conducting market research is critical to understand who TVET’s audiences are, their interests and concerns, and what they aspire to be.

Pham Van Quan

Dr. Pham Van Quan is currently a Rector of Hue Industrial College, Vietnam. He got a Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering at the University of Tokyo in 2009. From 2013 to 2019, he was Deputy Head of the Department of Training and Human Development, Ministry of Industry and Trade. Before that, he worked as a lecturer in the Environmental Engineering Department at Hanoi Architectural University, where he researched energy-saving techniques to mitigate climate change. Dr. Quan has written numerous papers on sustainability topics.

Boosting Student Learning: Programme for International Student Assessment for Development

Issued by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) aims to evaluate education systems worldwide by testing the skills and knowledge of 15-year-old students in mathematics, reading, and science. PISA for Development, among its other goals, aims to enhance PISA to make it more relevant to a wider range of countries and thus enable greater PISA participation by middle- and low-income countries.

Guntur Sugiyarto

Guntur has published a significant number of papers on a wide range of development issues, such as competitiveness, investment, tourism economics, labor markets, poverty, CGE modeling, trade liberalization, taxation, commodity prices, biofuel and food security, education, infrastructure, fragility, and migration. Before joining ADB in 2004, he worked for the universities of Nottingham and Warwick in the United Kingdom and the Central Bureau of Statistics in Indonesia.