Jan van Ravens is a senior policy maker and consultant, formerly affiliated to the Child Study Center at Yale University. He supported policy development for young children in some 30 low- and middle-income countries. Former positions include: Senior Policy Analyst in the Education for All Monitoring Team at UNESCO; Head of International Affairs in the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science; Coordinator of Higher Education and Lifelong Learning in the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs. He holds a master’s degree in sociology from the State University of Leiden in the Netherlands.