Graduated in Modern History (Oxford University) and Ph.D. in social policy at Northwestern University, USA. He has been senior advisor to CIESPI/PUC-Rio since the 1980s. His research, policy and advocacy interests include low-income children and families, community economic development, workforce development and affordable housing. He has taught as a regular faculty member at Northwestern University and the University of Chicago in the US and for 15 years was president of Woodstock Institute, a US community economic development think tank. He served a term on the Consumer Advisory Council of the US Federal Reserve Board and on the boards of a number of US national community economic development coalitions.

List of publications:

Bush, M., Rizzini, I (2021). Early childhood education, children’s rights, and challenges, Informe 3, International Center for Research and Policy on Childhood, in press.

Bush M., and Tavares, R. (2017). Work force training and connections to the world of work for low-income youth in urban Brazil: do the main training systems adequately serve this population? International Center for Research and Policy on Childhood.

Bush M., et al., (2018). A process and outcome evaluation of a combined tutorial and online English as a second language program, Center for Urban Research and Learning, Loyola University of Chicago and the John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation.

Bush M.; Rizzini, I. Bó, C. (2017). Primeira infância, saneamento e Zika (Early childhood, sanitation and the Zika virus (2^nd edition with Irene Rizzini and M Cristina Bo, International Center for Research and Policy on Childhood) 2017.  

Bush M.; Rizzini, I. (2015). Using early childhood research to inform and influence public policy: An example from Brazil. Sage publications. In: Early Childhood Research. Editors: Ann Farrell, Sharon L. Kagan, Kay M. Tisdal.

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