Amber Gove, Ph.D

Amber Gove, PhD is Director of Research within the International Education Division at RTI International. In this role, she leads the division strategy for publishing and communicating findings from RTI's work. Her research interests include improvement and measurement of student learning; education finance; conditional cash transfer programs; and factors affecting achievement, enrollment, and attendance. She also serves as Director of Assisting Basic Education: All Children Reading, a USAID program designed to support the agency in its goal of improving reading for 100M children. She has nearly two decades of experience in international education and regularly engages in policy dialogue around early learning and assessment. Her publications include a 2011 edited volume entitled The Early Grade Reading Assessment: Applications and Interventions to Improve Basic Literacy and Early Grade Reading: Igniting Education for All. She received her PhD in International Comparative Education and her MA in Economics from Stanford University.