This event was targeted to students and alumni interested in international development, consulting and research organizations. The event began with an hour-long virtual panel of experts on international development. After the panel attending organizations had an opportunity to give a short pitch (describing their company, available positions, etc) to students. Following the pitches there was tabling and mingling with students.
Pablo Stansbery
Dr. Pablo Stansbery is the Senior Director of Early Childhood Development at Save the Children. Save the Children is the leading independent organization committed to positive, lasting change for children and operates programs in over 120 countries around the world. The early childhood development program provides a holistic understanding of the child, combining physical, socio-emotional, linguistic and cognitive developmental needs. Prior to joining Save the Children, Pablo worked with First 5 California to develop, implement and evaluate a wide range of programs for young children and their families. His research explores how culture influences routine interactions between caregivers and young children and how those tacit exchanges influence developmental trajectories of children. Pablo completed his doctoral study at Harvard University in the Department of Human Development and Psychology and his post-doctoral training at the Child Development Unit at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School.
Sheldon Shaeffer
Sheldon Shaeffer was Director of UNESCO's Asia and Pacific Regional Bureau for Education in Bangkok for over seven years, retiring at the end of 2008. A citizen of Canada, he was educated in history (B.A.), anthropology (M.A.), and comparative international education (Ph.D.) at Stanford University. He has taught, done research, and worked in development programs in Southeast Asia for over 25 years - as a high school teacher in Malaysia, as an anthropologist and an education program officer for the Ford Foundation in Indonesia, and as the regional education advisor for UNICEF in Bangkok. He was also the Director of Education and Population Programmes for the International Development Research Centre in Canada for ten years and later was a senior research fellow at the International Institute for Educational Planning (UNESCO) in Paris. Before moving back to Bangkok with UNESCO, he was head of UNICEF's global education programme in New York for three years.
Richard Navarro
Dr. Richard A. Navarro is Professor of Education at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. He recently returned from Indonesia where he led a national conference on Indigenous education, conducted a mid-term evaluation of HIV and AIDS education project and managed an end-line evaluation of a three-year education project for UNICEF. In 2011 he was a Fulbright Research Scholar for the Republic of Maldives and guest lecturer at the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. In 2006, he authored the Plan of Action for the UNESCO Teacher Training Initiative in Sub-Saharan Africa. In 2005 and 2006, Dr. Navarro served as a Senior Advisor and Project Manager of the Teacher Education Program in Afghanistan. In 2003 and 2004 he was Chief of Education, UNICEF-Afghanistan. He was appointed by the Governor of California to a three-year term as Chair of the Stae Commission for Technology in Learning. He has been on the faculty of Michigan State University (where he was Founding Director of the Julian Samora Research Institute), and a Fellow at Stanford and the University of Houston. Dr. Navarro has also conducted major program evaluations in Latin America, Central America, and the Caribbean. He continues to consult for other organizations including, UNESCO, The World Bank, Asia Development Bank, USAID, The Asia Foundation, and several universities and government agencies. He has a PhD and MA from Stanford and an MA from Harvard.
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