Michael Trucano is a visiting fellow in the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution, on leave from the World Bank, where for 26 years he has provided policy advice, research, and technical assistance to governments seeking to utilize new technologies in their education systems.

His current research focuses on generative artificial intelligence in education, and, more broadly, emerging edtech policies, initiatives, and institutions after the pandemic. In this role, he has adviser to, evaluator of, and/or working-level participant in large-scale educational technology initiatives in over 70 countries across and in many countries across Africa, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe, as well as China, India, South Korea, Uruguay and the United States.

He is particularly well known for his work related to the development of national edtech policies and the building of related government and quasi-governmental agencies.

He has also helped found a number of nongovernmental and research initiatives related to the uses of new technologies in education around the world, including the EdTech Hub and the mEducation Alliance, serves on the board of Digital Promise, and co-chairs the GPE’s global reference group on new technologies in education.