Day 1: Tuesday March 21
7:30 AM: Registration
8:30 AM: Cultural Performance
9:00 AM: Welcome
- Mr. Rodrigo Chaves, Country Director, World Bank Group
- Dr. Justin Lee, Australian Deputy Ambassador for Indonesia
- Mr. Jaime Saavedra-Chanduvi, incoming Senior Director, Education Global Practice, World Bank Group
- His Excellency Mr. Muhajir Effendy, Minister of Education and Culture, Indonesia
9:45 AM: Introduction of the Conference, Speakers and Participants
- Mr. Harry Patrinos, Practice Manager, World Bank
10:00 AM: Keynote: The Success and Challenges of Financing Education in a Large Decentralized System
- Ms. Sri Mulyani, Minister of Finance, Indonesia
11:30 AM: Keynote: Education and Economic Development
- Mr. Harry Patrinos, Practice Manager, World Bank
2:00 PM: Presentation: East Asia Education and Progress and Challenges: Growing Smarter—Education Quality and Economic Growth in East Asia and Pacific
- Mr. Michael Crawford, Lead Education Specialist, East Asia and Pacific Region, World Bank Group
2:45 PM: Presentation: East Asia Education and Progress and Challenges: Growing Smarter—A Case Study of Indonesia
- Ms. Tazeen Fasih, Senior Education Economist, World Bank Group
3:45 PM: Panel Discussion: Bridging the Gap between Education and Employability
- Moderator: Mr. Francisco Marmolejo, Lead Economist, World Bank Group
- Opening Presentation: Mr. Rudy Salahuddin, Deputy Minister for Creative Economy, Entrepreneurship, and Cooperative & SMEs Competitiveness, Coordinating Minister of Economic Affairs, Indonesia
- Panel Discussants: Mr. Hwa Ick Jeon, Executive Director, GIFTS, HRD Korea; Mr. Alexandre Fernandes Oliveira, Chief Investment Officer, International Finance Corporation; Ms. Rozilini M Fernandez-Chung, Associate Professor, School of Education of Nottingham University, Malaysia Campus; Ms. Reema Nayar, Practice Manager, World Bank Group
Day 2: Wednesday March 22
8:30 AM: Keynote: Improving Education Quality and Equity in Peru
- Mr. Jaime Saavedra, former Minister of Education, Peru and incoming Senior Director, Education Global Practice, World Bank
9:15 AM: Panel Discussion: Lessons from Some High-Performing Systems
- Moderator: Mr. Totok Soefijanto, Research Director, Paramadina Public Policy Institute (TBCI), Indonesia
- Panel discussants: Mr. Rod Allen, former Assistant Deputy Minister, Ministry of Education, Canada; Mr. Madis Lepajõe, Deputy Secretary General for Youth and Foreign Relations, Estonia; Mr. Saravanan Gopinathan, Academic Director, The HEAD Foundation, Singapore.
11:15 AM: Elements of Excellent Education Systems: 1) Starting off Right– Early Years and Early Reading
- Moderator and Opening Presentation: Ms. Amanda Devercelli, Senior Education Specialist and Global Lead for Early Childhood Development, World Bank Group
- Panel discussants: Mr. Harris Iskandar, Director General of Early Childhood Education and Community Education, Indonesia; Ms. Binh Thanh Vu, Senior Education Specialist, World Bank Group; Ms. Rosefita Roesli, Senior Education Specialist, World Bank Group; Ms. Rabia Ali, Economist, World Bank Group; Mr. Ning Fu, Education Specialist, World Bank Group
2:00 PM: Elements of Excellent Education Systems: 2) How to Support Teachers to Teach Better
- Moderator: Ms. Reema Nayar, Education Practice Manager, Latin America and Caribbean Region, World Bank Group
- Opening Presentation: Mr. Javier Luque, Senior Education Specialist and Focal Point, Inter-American Development Bank (IADB)
- Panel discussants: Mr. Sumarna Surapranata, Director General, Teachers and Education Personnel, Indonesia; Ms. Shabnam Sinha, Lead Education Specialist, World Bank Group; Mr. Andy Ragatz, Senior Education Specialist, World Bank Group
3:45 PM: Elements of Excellent Education Systems: 3) School Autonomy and Accountability
- Moderator: Ms. Tazeen Fasih, Senior Economist, East Asia & Pacific Region, World Bank Group
- Opening Presentation: Mr. Stanley Rabinowitz, General Manager, Assessment and Reporting at the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA)
- Panel discussants: Mr. Nizam, Director, Research and Development Center for Educational Assessment Ministry of Education and Culture; Mr. Nobuhiro Kunieda, Senior Advisor, Japan International Cooperation Agency; Ms. Marie-Helene Cloutier, Senior Economist, World Bank Group.
Day 3: Wednesday March 23
8:30 AM: Keynote: Trends in Learning Outcomes
- Mr. Andreas Schleicher, Director for Education and Skills, and Special Advisor on Education Policy to the Secretary-General at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
9:15 AM: Panel Discussion: Trends in Learning Outcomes
- Moderator: Mr. Harry Patrinos, Practice Manager, World Bank Group
- Panel discussants: Mr. Gwang-Jo Kim, Head, UNESCO Bangkok and former Deputy Minister of Education, Korea; Mr. Minxuan Zhang, Director of the Research Institute for International and Comparative Education, Shanghai Normal University and former Deputy Education Commissioner, Shanghai, China; Ms. Rina Ray, Additional Secretary, Department of School Education and Literacy, Ministry of Human Resource Development, India; Mr. Andreas Schleicher, Director for Education and Skills, and Special Advisor on Education Policy to the Secretary-General, OECD.
10:45 AM: Elements of Excellent Education Systems: 4) Non-cognitive skills – Learning for the future
- Moderator: Ms. Raja Bentaouet Kattan, Lead Education Specialist, World Bank Group
- Opening Presentation: Dr. Lim Lai Cheng, Executive Director, SMU Academy, Singapore
- Panel discussants: Mr. Totok Suprayitno, Head of Research and Development Bureau, Ministry of Education and Culture, Indonesia; Mr. Daniel Hernandez Franco, Sectoral Coordinator of Academic Development, Ministry of Education, Mexico; Ms. Katia Herrera, Senior Economist, World Bank Group; Mr. Pablo Acosta, Senior Economist, World Bank Group.