Aglaia Zafeirakou
Senior Education Specialist , The World Bank
Aglaia Zafeirakou

Aglaia Zafeirakou is a Senior Technical Advisor, consultant for World Bank’s projects and programs. She has 20 years of experience in providing high level technical advice to governments on how to improve the quality of education services reaching all children.

Her areas of expertise include making visible and accessible evidence on how to improve education and learning quality and generating consensus on policies and strategies needed, especially for the most disadvantaged. Her work has been focused on equitable access to education services, on early learning, early grade reading, and on placing learning high on the education development agenda.

She has worked on capacity-building with various stakeholders, to develop evidence-based curricula packages on research based early grade reading, effective teaching and learning approaches, procurement of quality textbooks, and other materials. This work is now being reflected in shifts in emphasis and in the program’s promising results is numerous countries. She has been dedicated over the last 15 years to addressing the book gap with notable success in Senegal, Gambia, Albania, Moldova, Benin and Cote d’Ivoire.

Aglaia has worked for the World Bank, the Global Partnership for Education, and Chemonics International; she has been providing technical expertise for the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), UNICEF, UNESCO, OECD and the EU, among other international organizations and development partners. Previously she was professor of Education Sciences at Democritus University, Thrace, Greece.