Daniel Plaut

Daniel Plaut is program director for global education and artificial intelligence at Results for Development (R4D), with more than a decade of experience supporting education innovations in low- and middle-income countries. He focuses on helping partners increase the impact of programs that expand access and improve learning outcomes for children and youth (often by asking lots of questions) and serves as a learning partner to governments, funders and implementers to test assumptions, generate evidence and adapt in real time.

At the R4D-led EdTech Hub, he serves as global learning lead for the AI Observatory and Action Lab, where he takes a hypothesis-based approach to making sense of AI integration in education. He leads learning agendas, develops evidence-based guidance and supports capacity strengthening for education leaders as they test and scale AI-enabled approaches. His work includes supporting the Ministry of Education AI Challenge initiatives and Teacher-in-the-Lead Sandboxes. He previously served as innovation learning lead at EdTech Hub, leading implementation research and sandbox engagements across Africa and South Asia on topics including digital personalized learning and tech-enabled teacher professional development.

Over his career, Daniel has developed expertise in foundational literacy and numeracy, teacher professional development, early childhood and youth skills development, and education innovation and scale, among other topics. He has worked closely with ministries of education, education donors, and program implementers, as a learning partner facilitating strategy and policy development, and evaluating programs, always striving for improved and more equitable education outcomes.