Director: Daniel C. Levy

PROPHE Affiliate

LaRocque, Norman

(Philippines)

Email:   nlarocque@adb.org
Address: Asian Development Bank
               P.O. Box 789, 0980 Manila, Philippines

Biography

Norman LaRocque is an Education Specialist with the Southeast Asia Department of the Asian Development Bank, based in Manila, the Philippines.   Until recently, he was a public policy consultant and advisor to the Education Forum, based in Wellington, New Zealand. Norman’s research interests include all levels of education, with a focus on the regulation of education, private education, education finance, student loans and public-private partnerships. Norman has worked in more than 20 countries in Asia and the Pacific, Africa and the Middle East.

Norman has a number of publications, including Public Private Partnerships in Basic Education:  An International Review (2008), The Evolving Regulatory Context for Private Education in Emerging Economies (with John Fielden, 2008),  Contracting for the Delivery of Education Services: A Typology and International Examples (2006), Who Should Pay? - Tuition fees and Tertiary Education Financing in New Zealand (2003), The Promise of E Learning in Africa: The Potential for Public-Private Partnerships (with Michael Latham, 2003), School Choice: Lessons from New Zealand (2005) and Private Education in the Philippines (2000). He was also a member of the team that prepared the World Bank's Higher Education Policy Note for Pakistan - An Assessment of the Medium-Term Development Framework (2006).

Norman has an MA and a BA (Honors) in Economics from the University of Western Ontario (Canada).