Monazza Aslam is a Research Fellow at CERP. She is currently the Managing Partner, of the Oxford Partnership for Education Research and Analysis. She is an education economist, previously a Research Fellow based at Oxford University. She has experience advising a wide range of national and international organizations (DFID, UNESCO, and The World Bank). Dr Aslam’s research career spanning 15 years has focused on using applied micro-econometrics, investigating gender issues in education in developing countries, teacher effectiveness, the role of different school types in improving student learning, and the political economy of education systems. She is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at UCL and a Managing Partner of education think tank (Oxford Partnership for Education Research and Analysis). She has advised the UK government and various international organizations. A Rhodes Scholar from Pakistan (2000), she completed her doctoral thesis at the University of Oxford in 2006 and her undergraduate degree at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) in Pakistan in 1999.