Emma Cameron is a global education specialist and a research associate with the Learning Generation Initiative (LGI). She has expertise in mixed-methods research, policy design, and teaching. Her work focuses mainly on early childhood development, childcare and women’s economic empowerment, teacher professional development, and girls’ education, with field experience across Sub-Saharan Africa. She supports the Education Workforce Initiative’s research agenda.

Earlier in her career, Cameron served in the Peace Corps for two years as a secondary teacher in Rwanda. She was also a primary teacher for two years in the United States and Tanzania.

Cameron holds a Master’s Degree in International Education Policy from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a Bachelor’s Degree in Education and Cultural Anthropology from Middlebury College.