Florencia Lopez Boo delivers 2025 Thrive Conference Keynote
Too many promising child development programs fail—not because they don’t work, but because we don’t invest wisely enough to scale them.
Scaling high-impact ECD programs is critical to global development. The @THRIVE Conference in London this week—hosted by the Institute For Fiscal Studies and Thrive Child Evidence—brought together leading academics, policymakers, and practitioners to turn pilot successes into widespread, sustainable change, backed by rigorous evidence.
Florencia Lopez Boo had the honor of delivering a keynote on “Investing Better in Child Development Policies,” sharing reflections on how we can improve the design and delivery of impactful programs at scale.
We were also proud to present our poster on hybrid modalities of parenting programs from Jamaica, highlighting how flexible, evidence-informed models can better support families. Special thanks to Susan Walker and Fahmida Tofail for the insightful discussions.
And a big thank you to Sonya Krutikova for opening the conference with such clarity and purpose—and to everyone who made this space one of collaboration, rigor, and hope.
