The New School Graduate Program in International Affairs

Alec Gershberg (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania) is an Associate Professor at Milano and a specialist on school governance, education finance, and decentralization both in the developing world and the U.S. He has conducted extensive research on Latin America—particularly Mexico, Nicaragua, and Ecuador—focusing on the decentralization of power to schools, communities and governments. More recently, he has worked on similar themes in Egypt, Romania, and Sub-Saharan Africa. He has been a frequent consultant to the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, and the Urban Institute.