Emily Cupito

Emily Cupito is the Executive Director at DIL, leading the Education Initiative. She is passionate about helping to facilitate the scale up of proven innovations, and she is particularly interested in helping governments to be more effective. Emily spent a decade in Africa, where she most recently led J-PAL Africa’s policy team. In this role, she worked with governments and partners across the continent to explore if and how to scale evidence-based innovations in their contexts. In collaboration with Indian NGO Pratham, her team helped found Teaching at the Right Level Africa, a new team striving to scale an evidence-based literacy and numeracy approach across the continent. Emily has a Master’s in Public Policy from Duke University and a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics and Public Policy from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Emily’s work has spanned over a dozen countries, including Egypt, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Uganda, and Zambia.

Contact: cupito@uchicago.edu