Geeta Gandhi Kingdon
Professor, UCL Institute of Education, University College London
Geeta Gandhi Kingdon is a Professor at the UCL Institute of Education, University College London, where she holds the Chair of Education and International Development. Prior to this, she worked for 10 years at the Department of Economics, University of Oxford.
Dr. Kingdon’s research interests are in economics of education in developing countries, particularly in South Asia and Africa. She has investigated school effectiveness, gender in education, labour market outcomes of education, and the political economy of education. She has an MSc and DPhil in Development Economics from the University of Oxford.
Recent work by Geeta Gandhi Kingdon
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Building cognitive endurance: How a simple change in the school day can transform attentional capacity
Promoting sustained effortful mental activity in Indian primary schools markedly improved student cognitive and educational outcomes across a wide range of subjects.
Published 26.06.25