Marito Garcia served as Practice Manager for Education at the World Bank’s Latin America and the Caribbean Region, and Lead Economist for Programs in New Economy Skills and e-Learning for World Bank’s Africa Region. He currently serves as a Board Director of Learning Equality, a California-based non-profit education technology company dedicated to bringing the internet offline to address the digital divide.  He currently advises the Asian Development Bank and the World Bank in key areas in education technology, such as digital credentialing using blockchain, online learning platforms, microcredentials, and digital transformation of tertiary institutions including implementation of training for the metaverse.