Monazza is an Education Economist with more than 15 years’ experience working as an applied quantitative economist with a focus on education and international development. Her work has investigated gender and labour market issues and the role of private providers in education provision in Pakistan and other developing contexts. She has extensive experience in collecting primary data for economists and has conducted several purpose-built school-based and household-based surveys in developing countries. 

Her research has looked at schooling access as well as the quality of schools and at teacher effectiveness, the role of private schools, and multiple disadvantages in education, with a focus on girls’ education, resilience, and inclusion globally. Monazza has extensive experience of conducting high-quality technical evaluations in low- and middle-income contexts. She is the Managing Partner at the Oxford Partnership for Education Research and Analysis (OPERA), an education consultancy based in the UK, and the Research Director of the Data and Research in Education – Research Consortium (DARE-RC) in Pakistan.