Juan Manuel Moreno is Senior Education Specialist at the Department of Middle East and North Africa of the World Bank. Having worked in education development projects in over 20 countries, he is currently responsible for the Bank´s education portfolio in Jordan and Lebanon. Before joining the Bank in 2002, he was Associate Professor of Education at the Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia (UNED) in Spain. From 1999 to 2002 he served as Vice-Rector of International Relations of UNED and as the Secretary General of the Ibero-American Association of Higher Distance Education (AIESAD). Dr. Moreno has been a visiting scholar at SUNY Buffalo (USA), and at the University of Niejmegen (The Netherlands). He has also served as consultant and evaluator for the European Commission and UNESCO. Dr. Moreno has co-authored (with Ernesto Cuadra) the 2005 World Bank first policy report on Secondary Education: Expanding Opportunities and Building Competencies for Young People: a New Agenda for Secondary Education. He has published extensively (eight books and nearly 100 journal articles and book chapters) in the fields of curriculum development, education reform and school improvement, distance education, and teacher education and professional development.