Amanda E. Devercelli is the World Bank’s Global Lead for Early Childhood Development (ECD). In this role she works to expand and improve World Bank investments in ECD, ensure delivery of high-quality operational and analytical work and build capacity of Bank staff and clients. While at the Bank, she has launched the prestigious Early Years Fellowship to build capacity of young professionals in their home countries and the Early Learning Partnership (ELP), a $35 million fund that has generated more than $1.2 billion in funding to scale-up high-quality ECD services worldwide. Amanda has led operational and analytical work across the Bank’s portfolio, including in Senegal, Pakistan and Uzbekistan and is currently leading research on ECD measurement, quality early learning settings and childcare. Prior to joining the Bank, Amanda worked with community-based schools in Kenya and Peru and with several international civil society organizations in the field of international development. She has a Master’s Degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and was awarded the Reynolds Fellowship in Social Enterprise from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.