Asma Zubairi

Asma recently graduated as a PhD candidate from the University of Cambridge at the Research for Equitable Access and Learning (REAL) Center. Her PhD focused on the political economy factors affecting teacher distribution at the primary level of education in Malawi. She has 15 years of experience working on issues relating to educational policy and finance, both at an operational level and working on evidence-based educational research needed to inform policy. She worked for four years at the Ministry of Education in Malawi as an ODI-sponsored government official working on policy and budgetary issues. Her research has involved collaborating with a range of global institutions, as well as with national-level partners. Organisations she has more recently worked with or collaborated with include the Brookings Institute, Education Commission, Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO), Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE), Malala Fund, MasterCard Foundation, Sarah & Gordon Brown Foundation and UNESCO.