Europe is the world’s wealthiest continent and the first region in the world to modernize. The scientific and industrial revolutions began in Europe and the first recognizably modern administrative states were established there, with the possible exception of China. Europe’s fragmentation into competing empires and nation-states is seen as both a strength and a weakness. […]

Rukmini Banerji is the CEO of the Pratham Education Foundation, India’s and the world’s largest education NGO. Rukmini has been with Pratham since 1996 and has extensive field experience in program design implementation in both rural and urban settings. She also led Pratham’s research and assessment activities, including the groundbreaking ASER report from 2005 to […]

Our host, Stavros Yiannouka, shares a warm welcome with fellow producers of WISE Words, Sarah Fayyad and Vesta Gheibi.   We discuss some highlights from 2018 (including some funny moments) and share some of our thoughts for what’s to come in 2019 for Season 2.