EMILIANA VEGAS, EdD, has been highly recognized for her career working to inform education policy in the so-called Global South. She has been a leading economist at the World Bank, division chief of education at the Inter-American Bank, and codirector of the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution. She is currently a professor of practice at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her new book, Let's Change the World: How to Work within International Development Organizations to Make a Difference, was published by Rowman & Littlefield in September of 2024.