Luis Crouch

Luis Crouch is a retired senior economist emeritus at RTI International's Development Group. He has previously been a lead education economist at the World Bank and also led the global good practices team at GPE from 2011 to 2013. He currently serves as Board Chair for the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).

Luis is an education economist (agricultural economist by training, PhD Berkeley 1981, with education being a post-PhD interest). He has specialized in policy, decentralized finance (e.g., funding formulas) and decentralization, political economy of reform, education statistics and projections.

More recently he has become interested in pedagogical and measurement issues in order to better understand the ʺsupply sideʺ of how education systems respond (or not) to incentives, an area he feels is neglected. He continues a longstanding interest in educational measurement including education management information systems (EMIS) and administrative systems.

He has worked closely with governments advising on reform processes, including South Africa's funding reforms and Egypt's decentralization reforms around 2010.

He has worked on or studied some 20 countries in all regions of the world, but with a focus on Latin America, Southern and Eastern Africa, and Indonesia.