RISE Annual Conference – a personal reflection | Blavatnik School of Government

Diwakar Kishore (MPP Class of 2015) has written a blog for the Research on Improving Systems of Education Programme (RISE). In the post, he looks back to his first RISE Annual Conference in 2016 and highlights some personally relevant presentations from this year's event.

Diwakar is a consultant for the RISE Programme.

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