WHO WE ARE
Ko-Chih Tung, PhD
Principal Specialist
(Lead – Monitoring and Evaluation and Systems Analysis)
Dr. Ko-Chih Tung is foremost a strategist and a methodologist in the scientific development of systems for evidence-based policy and results-based management, whose extensive activities have contributed to national, regional and global monitoring, evaluation and assessment of progress and challenges of education in Africa, Asia and the Pacific.
As the former Regional Advisor for the Asia-Pacific Office of the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), Dr. Tung conceived and developed the Assessment, Information Systems, Monitoring and Statistics (AIMS) Programme Unit at UNESCO Bangkok; and mobilized the support of policymakers and stakeholders and led the education planners, statisticians and analysts in virtually all countries of Asia and the Pacific Region to undertake the national and regional EFA Mid-Decade Assessment; and, based on its results, Policy Review and Action Plan with special focus on identifying and reaching the unreached groups and the under-served areas.
Under Dr. Tung’s tutelage, the National Education Statistical Information Systems (NESIS) network was developed and nearly all countries of Sub-Saharan Africa undertook the EFA2000 Assessment and formulated their post-Dakar EFA strategy.
In the 1990’s, Dr. Tung worked extensively in sub-Saharan Africa as the Regional Coordinator for the Working Group on Education Statistics, Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA); Coordinator of Education for All Regional Technical Advisory Groups; Director of UNESCO’s Southern Africa Cluster in Harare. Prior to this, he worked with the Swedish International Development Agency. He has also served as a member, advisor and/or observer in SADC, OAU, ADEA, EFA FTI Partnership, UN ESCAP SIAP, etc.
Born in China, childhood in Japan, secondary school in Hawaii, and BA at Dartmouth in the USA, Ko-Chih Tung studied International and Comparative Social Survey at the University of Cologne, Germany and Data Analysis and Statistical Computer Modeling at the University of Essex, UK, before obtaining his PhD in Political Science from the University of Stockholm, where he taught Ph.D. courses and advised on Scientific Research Methodology for nearly 15 years before he himself went out into the world and began practicing what he had been preaching.
Photo credit: UNESCO/Sirisak.
WHO WE ARE
Cream Wright, PHD
Patricia Moccia, PhD
Ko-Chih Tung, PhD
Dr. David S. Bassiouni
Andy Powell
