Milagros Nores is an Assistant Research Professor at NIEER, Rutgers University, Graduate School of Education. Her expertise is in early childhood attainment, the economics of education, poverty, and international and comparative education. She runs early childhood studies in the U.S. and Latin America. She holds a Ph.D. in Education and Economics from Columbia University and an Ed.M. in Educational Administration and Social Policy from Harvard University. Dr.

Professor Peter Gluckman's research focuses on what gives us a healthy start to life: understanding how a baby's environment between conception and birth determines its childhood development and life-long health - and the impact that this knowledge has for individuals and whole populations. His research has won him numerous awards and international recognition including Fellowship of the Commonwealth's most prestigious scientific organisation, The Royal Society (London).