Education & development
expertise outside the box

Bilal Barakat & Stephanie Bengtsson

Bilal Barakat is a researcher, policy analyst, and lecturer with a proven track record of utilising cutting-edge statistics and demographic perspectives to improve our understanding of education systems. Learn more about Bilal →

Stephanie Bengtsson is an educator, development specialist, and researcher with significant experience and expertise informing and improving education and development policy and practice. Learn more about Stephanie →

Bilal Barakat & Stephanie Bengtsson

Bilal Barakat is a researcher, policy analyst, and lecturer with a proven track record of utilising cutting-edge statistics and demographic perspectives to improve our understanding of education systems. Learn more about Bilal →

Stephanie Bengtsson is an educator, development specialist, and researcher with significant experience and expertise informing and improving education and development policy and practice. Learn more about Stephanie →

We are a partnership of two highly-qualified and experienced education professionals with complementary skills, who believe that high quality research is at the heart of good policy and practice.
We offer individualised research, training, expertise, and consulting services to help our clients solve problems in education and development.
As a team of two with perfectly complementary expertise yet proven ability to work hand-in-hand, we fill a niche between more anonymous large firms and solo individuals, and between academics and development practitioners.