Joa Keis is an Early Childhood Education Specialist within UNICEF headquarters global Early Childhood Education Team. Within his current role, Joa is responsible for supporting the development and implementation of UNICEF ECE programs globally as well as for managing, monitoring, and reporting on progress of UNICEF’s global ECE initiatives. Prior to his current role, Joa spent 9 years as an education professional working with NGOs and UNICEF in various country contexts in East Asia, Haiti and West and Central Africa, with a technical focus on ECE, Inclusive Education and Education in Emergencies. Within his various field-based experiences, Joa has consistently worked with all relevant national stakeholders to strengthen access to quality and equitable early learning opportunities in both humanitarian and development contexts and successfully supported the mainstreaming of ECE into education sector plans. Joa holds a Master’s of Arts in International Educational Development from Columbia University.