Amanda Beatty

Amanda Beatty is an International Consultant on the RISE Indonesia team. She is a Senior Researcher at Mathematica Policy Research and has been conducting education research in developing countries for the last fifteen years, and in Indonesia for the last nine. Before joining Mathematica in 2012, she was an education economist with the World Bank in Indonesia, where she led randomized evaluations of nationwide government programs, including a nationwide initiative to upgrade teacher qualifications at the primary and secondary levels; early childhood service expansion to poor communities; and efforts to enhance the effectiveness of school committees and school management through community engagement. From 2014-15, she spent a year working with the Center for Global Development, where she was part of the RISE startup team and helped set the vision and direction for the programme.