Daniel A. Wagner

Daniel A. Wagner is Professor of Education and Director of the International Literacy Institute (ILI), co-sponsored by UNESCO and the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, PA. He is also Director of the National Center on Adult Literacy at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his Ph.D. in educational psychology at the University of Michigan, was a two-year postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University, a Visiting Fellow at the International Institute of Education Planning in Paris, and a Visiting Professor at the University of Geneva (Switzerland). Dr. Wagner has extensive experience in national and international educational issues. In addition to more than 100 professional publications, Dr. Wagner has published the following books in recent years: World Literacy in the Year 2000: Research and Policy Dimensions (1992), Literacy: Developing the Future (1992), Literacy, Culture and Development (1993), What Makes Workers Learn: The Role of Incentives in Workplace Education and Training (1994), The Future of Literacy in a Changing World: Revised Edition (1999), and Literacy; An International Handbook (1999).