He is an economist with a masters and doctoral studies from New York University and a PhD. degree in Development Economics at Wageningen University. Currently he is Senior Researcher at GRADE. His research has focused on poverty and rural development. He has been distinguished with the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship to for his research about the links between rural producers and markets. In 2000, the Global Development Network (GDN) granted Javier Escobal with the Award for Outstanding Research on Development for their joint work on the geographical dimension to development.

Publications:

	Javier Escobal and Carmen Ponce (2007) Trade Liberalization and Children welfare: Assessing the impact of a FTA between Peru and United States.Young Lives Working Paper Nº 36. Available at: www.ninosdelmilenio.org/ing/publicaciones_documentos.shtml
	J. Escobal y C. Ponce (2006) La liberalización del Comercio y el Bienestar de la Infancia GRADE. (Traducción al español de: Trade Liberalization and Children welfare: Assessing the impact of a FTA between Peru and United States. Young LivesWorking Paper Nº 36). Available at: www.ninosdelmilenio.org/ing/publicaciones_libros.shtml
	Javier Escobal and Others (2005) Does Having a Newborn Child Affect Income Diversification Opportunities? Evidence from the Peruvian Young Lives Study. Young Lives Working Paper Nº 24. Available at: www.ninosdelmilenio.org/ing/publicaciones_documentos.shtml
	Javier Escobal and Others (2005) The Interaction of Public Assets, Private Assets and Community Characteristics and its Effect on Early Childhood Height-for-Age in Peru Young Lives Working Paper Nº 14. Available at: www.ninosdelmilenio.org/ing/publicaciones_documentos.shtml
	Javier Escobal, Jaime Saavedra and Pablo Suárez (2005) Economic Shocks and Changes in School Attendance Levels and Education Expenditure in Peru Young Lives Working Paper Nº 13. Available at: www.ninosdelmilenio.org/ing/publicaciones_documentos.shtml

She has an MA in Natural Sciences from Girton College, Cambridge University, and a medical degree from the University of Birmingham Medical School After seven years working in the NHS in the UK, in 1984 she was awarded a Welcome Trust Clinical research scholarship and went to Peru to investigate childhood diarrhea. She stayed on in Peru and is currently Senior Investigator and General Director at the Instituto de Investigación Nutricional (IIN). She is also visiting scientist in pediatrics at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Harvard University.

Her main research interests are in the area of infant and child nutrition, health and vaccines. Specific interests include: treatment, dietary management and prevention of infectious diarrhea; evaluation of nutrition interventions (complementary feeding, improved complementary foods, health service interventions in nutrition); micronutrient deficiency, especially zinc; community clinical trials including industry sponsored vaccine trials; and management of severe malnutrition. She has experience in longitudinal studies in the community including long term follow up.

Publications:

	Cueto S., Guerrero G., León J., Da Silva M., Huttly S., Penny M.E., Lanata C.F., Villar E. (2005) Social capital and education outcomes in urban and rural Peru. Working Paper Young Lives Proyect; Nº 28. Disponible en: www.ninosdelmilenio.org/ing/publicaciones_documentos.shtml
	Escobal J., Suárez P., Huttly S., Lanata C.F., Penny M.E., Villar E. (2005) Does having a newborn child affect income diversification opportunities?. Evidence from the Peruvian Young Lives study. Working Paper Young Lives Proyect; Nº 24. Disponible en: www.ninosdelmilenio.org/ing/publicaciones_documentos.shtml
	Escobal J., Saavedra J., Suárez P., Huttley S., Penny M.E., Lanata C.F., Villar E. (2005) The interaction of public assets, private assets and community characteristics and its effect on early childhood height-for-age in Peru. Working Paper Young Lives Proyect; Nº 14. Disponible en: www.ninosdelmilenio.org/ing/publicaciones_documentos.shtml

Patricia Ames is an anthropologist with a PhD. degree in Anthropology of Education at the University of London. Currently she is researcher at IEP and lecturer at university Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Her research has focused on rural education, addressing issues of power, gender inequalities, ethnicity and multigrade teaching in rural areas, as well as topics related with childhood and socialization, and literacy as social practice. In 2006 Patricia Ames was visiting professor at the Summer Institute in Language, Culture and Teaching in the Faculty of Graduate Studies at York University, Canada.

Publications:

	Ames. P. (2006) “A multigrade approach to literacy in the Amazon, Peru: the school and community perspectives”. In: Little, A. (ed). Education for all and multigrade teaching. Springer, Dordrecht.
	Ames, P. (2005) “When access is not enough: the educational exclusion of rural girls in Peru”. In: Unterhalter, E. y S. Aikman (eds) Beyond access: Transforming policy and practice for Gender Equality in Education. OXFAM, Oxford.

He has a Ph. D. in Educational Psychology from Indiana University. He got his B.A. in psychology and his degree in educational psychology at the university Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP).

He has been a visiting researcher at the University of California at Davis. Currently he is Senior Researcher at GRADE, Executive Secretary of PREAL’s Latin American Educational Research Fund, and professor at the PUCP. His research has been mostly on education and children’s development. In 2003, at the Global Development Network (GDN) annual conference, Dr. Cueto was awarded with the medal for best research in Education, Knowledge and Technology.

Publications:

	Balarin, María; Cueto, Santiago (2008). La calidad de la participación de los padres en la educación de los padres de familia y el rendimiento estudiantil en las escuelas públicas peruanas. GRADE/ Niños del Milenio. Documento de Trabajo Nº 35 (Traducción al español de: The quality of parental participation and student achievement in peruvian government schools. Oxford: Young Lives. Working paper, Nº 35). Available at: www.ninosdelmilenio.org/ing/publicaciones_documentos.shtml
	Balarin, María; Cueto, Santiago. (2007) The quality of parental participation and student achievement in peruvian government schools. Oxford: Young Lives. Working paper, Nº 35. Available at: www.ninosdelmilenio.org/ing/ing/publicaciones_documentos.shtml
	Cueto, S.,Guerrero, G., Leon, J, de Silva, M., Huttly, S., Penny, M. E., Lanata, C. F., Villar, E. (2005).Social capital and education outcomes in urban and rural Peru. Working Paper Nº. 28. Young Lives. An International Study of Childhood Poverty. London. Available at: www.ninosdelmilenio.org/ing/ing/publicaciones_documentos.shtml

She holds a degree in Anthropology at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru. She is currently working as Assistant Researcher in the Children of the Millenium study in its qualitative component.

She studied Communications for Development at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru. Before joining Young Lives, she worked in several social projects in Peru, in the area of communications.

She is Master in Education Science at the Catholic University of Louvain. She also holds a degree in Psychology with a concentration in education at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru. She is currently Assistant Researcher in GRADE´s educational area.

Holds a degree in Educatinal Psychology at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru. Her thesis awarded the Society of Peruvian Educative Research (SIEP for its acronym in English) contest 2010. She is Assistant Researcher in GRADE´s educational area and teacher at the PUCP.

Gabriela Guerrero holds a Master's Degree in Development Studies with Specialization in Public Policy and Management from the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, The Netherlands and is a doctoral candidate in Educational Sciences at the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium. She previously obtained her license in Educational Psychology at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru. She is currently working as Associate Researcher at GRADE in the areas of Education and Health, Nutrition and Human Development. Her areas of specialization include early childhood development and educational transitions.

He is a Doctor candidate in Theories, Educational Policies and International Comparative Education at the Pennsylvania State University. He holds a Bachelor degree in Economics from the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru. He is working as Consultant in GRADE´s education area.

Holds a statistics and computer engineering degree, with experience in database management using SPSS and SAS. She has supervised database cleanup and information processing for various national surveys conducted by the National Institute of Statistics. She joined the Children of the Millennium team in 2003 and has been responsible for coding, review and cleanup of information.

He holds a bachelor degree in Economics at the Universidad de Piura. His research project awarded the second place in the CIES contest 2009. He is currently Assistant Researcher in GRADE´s education area.

As a journalist, worked for local and international media from 1986 until December 2006. Has worked for El Comercio and the magazines Somos, Caretas, Semana Económica and Perú Económico, as well as other publications.

She was Lima correspondent for Dow Jones Newswires for six years, and served as publications manager for Macroconsult.
Holds a degree in social communications from the University of Lima and a diploma in economic and financial affairs from ESAN. She also holds a diploma from Syracuse University, where she studied on a Hubert Humphrey Fellowship.

A registered nurse and graduate of the Anglo-American Clinic School of Nursing, she holds a bachelor’s degree from Sagrado Corazón Women’s University and studied hospital administration, management and supervision at San Martín de Porres University. She joined the Nutrition Research Institute (IIN) in 1971, where she received training in pediatric nursing. She has served as director of clinical nursing, instructor and supervisor of the pediatric nurse training program, and instructor in the IIN Education Department.

Since 1982, she has worked as instructor, coordinator and national supervisor for several research projects and intervention programs in Lima and other regions of the country. She has extensive experience in screening, training and evaluation of personnel; planning, organization and implementation of field operations; and gathering of basic data (socioeconomic, cultural, anthropometric, etc.), as well as information for monitoring and evaluation.

Holds a degree in statistics and computer science from La Molina National Agricultural University, where she is currently completing a Master’s degree in applied statistics. She has worked at the Nutritional Research Institute (Instituto de Investigación Nutricional, IIN) since 1987, serving as statistical analyst for various research projects. Her focus has been on applied analysis of nutrition, human health, human behavioral psychology and the evaluation of educational methodologies, in coordination with multidisciplinary teams.

Holds a Master’s degree in anthropology and a licentiate in psychology from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, where she is a professor. She has worked in the Ministry of Education’s rural education program (PEAR), preparing educational materials and providing assessments and psychotherapy for children and teenagers. She has worked in various IIN projects since 1998, most recently doing studies to develop assessments for children. She has also provided brief psychotherapy and counseling for women and conducted parenting workshops.

Holds a doctorate in rural sociology and demography from Pennsylvania State University and a degree in sociology from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. She has more than 10 years of experience in applied research, facilitating inter-learning processes and conducting field work in rural communities, both nationally and internationally. She also has significant expertise in the design, implementation and analysis of quantitative and qualitative interdisciplinary research, as well as in baseline studies and program monitoring and evaluation.

She has worked in various sectors, including international technical cooperation, the public sector, non-governmental organizations, grassroots organizations, universities and research centers. She is currently director of the Institute for Rural Livelihoods at La Molina National Agricultural University, where she is also a visiting professor. Her areas of academic interest include rural development, research methods, intercultural communication, education, natural resource management, child labor and social demography.