Dr. A. Wallace Wood

A. Wallace Wood, Ph.D.
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Dr. Alfred Wood, Ph.D.Dr. Fred Wood is an internationally recognized expert on early childhood and youth development.His primary focus is on the role of private initiative in meeting the needs of marginal communities, non-governmental development alternatives in the developing world; and the relationship of early childhood development programs to the process of community development in low-income countries.

For twelve years, Dr. Wood served as Director of Education for Save the Children, with a main focus on early childhood development, community-initiated primary schools, and non-formal education.Prior to his work at Save the Children, he was Deputy Executive Director and Director of Programmes at the Bernard van Leer Foundation, The Hague, Netherlands where he created low-cost culturally appropriate early childhood development programs in 38 countries worldwide.He has also served as Education Research Officer, Commonwealth Secretariat, London; and Education Officer, Government of Uganda.Dr. Wood has managed numerous technical and policy missions, including identification, design, and implementation.His clients have included prominent development agencies such as the World Bank, UNICEF and The Rockefeller Foundation.

Dr. Wood received his Ph.D. from the University of London, where he completed his thesis "Education and Training of Out of School Youth in Twelve African Countries".Later revised and published as "Informal Education in Africa" (Mouton).He has a Master's in Philosophy, an Academic Diploma in Education and a Postgraduate Certificate in Education, from the University of London, as well as a Master's in History from Aberdeen University, where he obtained First Class Honors, the Forbes Gold Medal and the Caithness Prize.

Since moving to the United States in 1990, he was been a Fellow at Harvard's Kennedy School, Director of Education for Save the Children and at various times consultant for UNICEF in Albania, Jordan and Turkey.His primary professional concern derives from his time as Program Director and Deputy Executive Director at the Bernard van Leer Foundation in the Netherlands.
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