Ryan Burgess is specialist in the Education Division at the Inter-American Development Bank, currently working in the country office of Trinidad and Tobago. Mr. Burgess has worked as an education program manager, consultant, and researcher with UNICEF and NGOs in Latin America and the Caribbean, Eastern Europe, Middle East, Africa and the Caucasus. He was a Peace Scholar with the US Institute of Peace and has a Masters and a Doctorate in International Education Development from Teachers College, Columbia University.