Inge De Wolf Email & Phone Number

Amsterdam, NH, NL

• Manager and member of the management team NRO.
• Responsible for the development of a National Education Institute (launching in 2025), in close collaboration with the Ministry of Education. Organising tasks and funding.
• Direct the transition of NRO into the National Education Institute, ensuring a smooth operational shift.

• Full professor ‘Co-creation and Evaluation in Education’ (since Feb 2024), Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market (ROA), Faculty of Economics and Business, Maastricht University.
• Initiator and director of Education Lab NL (www.education-lab.nl).
• Leading the innovative Teachers Lab NL, where teachers, academics and policymakers collaboratively work on interventions to address teacher shortages.
• Start 2 co-creation labs in Education, managing budget, HR, quality control, output and program development.
• Initiator of ‘Ontwikkelkracht’, a policy program to stimulate evidence informed education in Dutch schools, member of management team.
• Founder of ONA, a hub for data, knowledge and practice sharing for primary schools in Amsterdam (www.ona.amsterdam).

• OECD (since 2015):
• Policy report on standardized tests Flanders: Introducing Standardised Testing into the Flanders Education System (OECD, 2023). Country visit, interviews, strategic thinking, presentation, final report.
• Country review & school improvement United Arab Emirates (2019, Abu Dhabi). Country visit, school visits and interviews, strategic thinking, final report.
• (Keynote)lecture Korea-OECD international seminar ‘Educational Equity’ (2018, Seoul). Keynote on equity in education, based on international comparisons (PISA) and good practices.
• Participant in OECD-project ‘Transforming schools into learning organisations’ (2016, Paris). OECD-meeting in Paris, strategic thinking.
• Contribution OECD-publication ‘Governing education in a complex world’ (2015, Paris). Writing chapter on experimental research in Education.World Bank (since 2018):

Utrecht

• Responsible for the ´State of Education´ in the years 2012-2019, which became an international example of an impactful national evaluation report in education.
• Responsible for system level monitoring at the Inspectorate of Education in 2012-2022.

• Academic research on effects of schooling, economics of education and effects of school inspections.
• Visiting scholar at the Center for Education Policy Analysis (CEPA), School of Education, Stanford University, Palo Alto, USA, 2011.
• Development of a ‘best evidence’ website for education, including visits to Best Evidence Encyclopedia, John Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA, 2011.

Team leader at the research departement of the Inspectorate of Education. Leader of a team of 14 people, mainly researchers. I developed a system of risk based inspections for the educational inspectorate in the Netherlands. This includes an early warning system to identify schools at risk. Special interest and responsabilities: R&D-activities, inspection.

• Senior researcher, Inspectorate of Education, Utrecht, 2000-2005.
• PhD position Sociology, Utrecht University, 1995-2000.
• Research coordinator ‘Labor market monitor’, a large scale research project on the transition of university graduates to the labor market, Utrecht University, Utrecht, 1997.
• Researcher, Economic Department, Provincial Government of North-Holland, Haarlem, 1992-1993.

Phd, Sociology

Activities and Societies: Dissertation on effects of educational specialisation

Master/Drs, Political Science

Education record