Dr. Arianna Pacifico is an education in emergencies specialist with over ten years of experience designing and leading a broad range of advocacy, knowledge management and global standards-setting initiatives and qualitative and mixed-methods research.

She received her PhD in International Comparative Education from Teachers College, Columbia University. Her research has focused on refugee education policy, teachers in crisis contexts and the political economy of aid across the humanitarian-development nexus. Her research examines how to support education for the world's most vulnerable populations in ways that are at scale, cost-effective and contribute to sustainable peace and development across a range of contexts including Kenya, Uganda, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Lebanon, Turkey and Jordan.

Arianna previously coordinated the Standards and Practice Working Group at the Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE) building inter-agency coalitions to advance the global education in emergencies agenda.

Arianna holds a MS in Global Affairs from New York University and a BA from Reed College.