Gregory Elacqua has spent more than twenty years designing, evaluating and scaling education reforms with governments in Latin America. At the IDB he is technical lead of the Education Division, coordinating the knowledge agenda and technical policy dialogue across the region. His research and policy work cover teacher policy, school finance, accountability, student and teacher assignment and, more recently, AI tools for students and teachers taken to scale with ministries and NGOs. He is lead author of Smart Spending in Education in Latin America and the Caribbean (2025). He holds a PhD in Public Policy from Princeton University.