Arianne Wessal
Education Specialist, GPE Secretariat
Arianne Wessal

Arianne Wessal is an Education Specialist in the Quality Assurance unit, within the Strategy, Policy and Performance Team at the Global Partnership for Education.  Prior to joining the Secretariat in 2014, Ari spent nearly five years at IEG working on a global partnership program where she served as the focal point for the program’s centers in West Africa and Brazil.  Before this she worked at the Inter-American Development Bank in Mexico and prior to that with Save the Children (in Mali and DC) working on various education projects.

Ari holds a Master’s in International Development Policy from Duke University, where she focused her studies on rural and nomadic education policy.