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ARGENTINA to unlock their full potential through an excellent . Larisa Oscar Ghillione considers her return to Armenia an opportunity to systemically impact CEO educational outcomes, and to provide an opportunity for outstanding Enseñá por Argentina graduates from Armenia and her diaspora to contribute to significant, meaningful development in their homeland. In February 2009, Oscar Ghillione, along with Prior to launching Teach For Armenia, Larisa had a diverse career a group of young people concerned about in marketing and consulting in the United States, Russia, and Armenia. the state of education in their country, began Larisa graduated with honors from St. Norbert College, with a BA in developing the plan to adapt and implement International Business & Language Area Studies, and received an MA the model in Argentina. In March, 2011, with the in Special Education from Arizona State University. Larisa is an avid support of the team, Enseñá por Argentina placed its first traveler, occasional recording artist, and a rookie oenology enthusiast. cohort of participants in schools. Oscar holds a degree in Business Administration from the Universidad Argentina de la Empresa. In 2005, he completed his MBA at Universidad AUSTRALIA del CEMA in Buenos Aires. In 2006, he was granted a scholarship by the Melodie Potts Rosevear Fundación Carolina to take a postgraduate course in business in Spain. CEO At present, he is a master’s degree candidate in Educational Policy at the Teach For Australia Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. Oscar has extensive experience in both the private and the social Melodie Potts Rosevear has been involved sectors. Before developing Enseñá por Argentina, he worked for 12 with Teach For Australia since its earliest years in the administration and finance departments of international conception. Originally from North Carolina, companies. Simultaneously, he has been a board member for Fundación Melodie came to Australia to serve as a Grupo San Felipe for the last five years, an NGO that he co-founded founding staff member and Think Tank Coordinator at the Cape York with friends that works on education projects in the poorest areas of Institute for Policy and Leadership, an indigenous policy ‘action tank’ Argentina. His work with this foundation gained recognition in both the championing welfare reforms and other social policy changes designed to private and public sectors. help remote indigenous communities to develop. Oscar has a passion for sports, particularly soccer. He resides in The seeds of Teach For Australia were planted as Melodie worked with Buenos Aires with his wife Luz and his little son, Oscar Jr. these communities and became further convinced of the urgent role education must play in improving the life chances of young people in the most disadvantaged areas of Australia. ARMENIA Melodie wrote the original business plan for the organization while Larisa Ryan completing her Masters studies at Harvard and travelling back and forth CEO between Boston and Australia. Teach For Australia was launched in late Teach For Armenia 2008 and received over 750 applications. The first cohort of over 40 Teach For Australia Associates began teaching in January 2010. Larisa Ryan was born in Yerevan, Armenia to Previously, Melodie was a management consultant with the Boston an Armenian mother and an Irish-American Consulting Group in Atlanta, Georgia, where she worked on a variety father. Her father’s work took her family of corporate and social sector projects, including an achievement gap to Russia—first to the Far East and then to reduction and school reconfiguration initiative for an urban school district. Moscow. This is where Larisa spent the next ten years of her life, prior Melodie has a Bachelors degree with highest distinction in to moving to the United States for university. Economics and Public Policy from the University of North Carolina at Larisa joined Teach For America in 2010 to teach special education Chapel Hill and received her Masters in Public Policy degree from the in Phoenix, Arizona, where she taught students with moderate learning Harvard Kennedy School of Government, concentrating on social policy differences in an underserved public school. Inspired by her experiences and non-profit management. leading her classroom, Larisa repatriated to Armenia in 2013 with She now lives in Melbourne, Australia with her Australian husband. a vision to start a program that will provide all children in Armenia, She enjoys playing sports, including Aussie Rules Football, and drinking regardless of their socio-economic circumstances, with the opportunity fine wines in good company.

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AUSTRIA BELGIUM Walter Emberger Pierre Pirard CEO CEO Teach For Austria Teach For Belgium

Walter has been working to establish Teach For Pierre Pirard is the founder and CEO of Teach Austria ever since he was inspired by an article For Belgium. A former manager with strong about in the Economist in 2009. business experience (in such multinational After conducting a feasibility study and having firms as P&G , Reckitt Benckiser, and Stanley been convinced that the model was the key to addressing educational Tools), Pierre left management consulting and a position as CEO of an disadvantage in Austria, he decided to launch Teach For Austria. In international direct marketing firm for the classroom and taught for more September 2012, the first cohort of 24 highly motivated Fellows entered than four years at a high-need high school in Belgium. high need schools in Vienna and Salzburg. He recently published “Vous n’êtes pas des élèves de merde!” a book Walter has a master’s and doctoral degree from Vienna University of on his teaching experience and the discovery he made of the potential of Business and Economics, and an MBA from INSEAD, Fontainebleau, those young students, most of whom were born in North Africa. France. He initially worked as a banker and as a consultant in Austria Pierre attended the Université Libre de Bruxelles where he studied and Switzerland. However, Walter also built up seven years of extensive law, has an MBA from the Solvay Brussels School of Economics and experience in the educational sector as head of the business faculty of Management, and graduated as a certified teacher in June 2013. He is Salzburg University of Applied Science, and most recently as the Vice married and the happy father of three children. Dean and Professor at the University of Seeburg in the city of Salzburg. Walter loves outdoor sports, including hiking, biking, and ski mountaineering. He lives in Salzburg, with his wife and daughter, and has BRAZIL a son in college in the United States. Erica Butow CEO Ensina Brasil BANGLADESH Maimuna Ahmad Erica is the CEO and Founder of Ensina Brasil. CEO Prior her current role, she was the Innovation Teach For Bangladesh Manager at Mind Lab, an educational company focused on the development of Maimuna is the founder and CEO of Teach For 21st century skills that serves more than 300,000 students in Brazil. Bangladesh. As a 2009 Teach For America Erica’s professional experiences also include Marketing at Procter & corps member, Maimuna taught secondary Gamble and Strategic Planning at Whirlpool in Latin America. Erica’s school math at a public charter school in passion for education led her to become an Education Pioneers Fellow southeast Washington, D.C. Prior to starting Teach For Bangladesh, at Harlem Village Schools in New York as an MBA intern, and to develop she worked at a human rights organization in Dhaka, leading research volunteer programs at an education non-profit in favelas in Brazil, where projects on children’s and indigenous women’s rights in Bangladesh. she coordinated ESL courses for disadvantaged students. She holds an Maimuna holds a BA in International Relations from Mount Holyoke MBA from UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business and a BA in Business

College and an MA in Teaching from American University. Administration from the Universidade de Sao Paulo.

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BULGARIA He immediately contacted other friends from Chile who had similar ideas for Evgenia Peeva improving education, and together they met Kopp in November of 2006 to CEO discuss their vision for starting a program similar to Teach For America in Chile. Teach For Bulgaria After a lengthy process of launching a feasibility study, in 2008 Tomás assumed the responsibility for directing the launch of Enseña Chile. He was Before joining Teach For Bulgaria in 2010, granted the Raymond Vernon Award from the Harvard Kennedy School, an Evgenia Peeva worked as a management award given to the student who best exemplifies the values of the Master’s in consultant at McKinsey and Company, Public Administration/International Development program, for commitment where she advised leading companies across to international development, academic achievement, citizenship, and industries ranging from technology and pharmaceuticals to industrial potential future leadership. Upon completing his degree, Tomás returned to electronics to non-profits on core business issues related to strategy, Chile in July of 2008. Within six months, Enseña Chile secured public and growth and expansion, marketing, and sales. In 2010, Evgenia was private support, and funds to be applied over a three year period. In light approached by America for Bulgaria Foundation, which provided a of Enseña Chile’s first two years of success, Tomás Recart was named the generous start-up grant for the launch of Teach For Bulgaria and is 2010 Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneur of the year in Chile and a still its major supporter, to return back to her country and take on the Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2011. challenge to set up the organization. Tomás loves music and sports, especially mountaineering, a passion that he Evgenia is co-founder and president of the non-profit Step for Bulgaria shares with his wife, Fernanda. Together, in 2005 they climbed the highest peak Foundation, which has delivered life-skills education and professional in the Americas, Mt. Aconcagua (6,859m). Both Tomás and Fernanda hope to development training to underprivileged Bulgarian youth since 2007. share this passion with their daughter, Ana, and their sons, Matias and Josue. She has built funder support and has led the expansion of the initial pilot program, providing English language and computer literacy training for 30 teenagers without parents, into a full-fledged summer academy and a CHINA full-year educational program. Since 2007, dedicated volunteers working Andrea Pasinetti at the foundation have trained over 150 youth living without parental care. CEO Evgenia holds a B.A. cum laude in Social Studies from Harvard Teach For China University. Her senior thesis identified the success factors for change makers in universities in post-communist Central and Eastern Europe. In 2008, during a year of study at Tsinghua During her time in college, she initiated and/or managed multiple University’s Inter-University Program, Andrea projects with a focus on international exchange and human development, traveled to seven provinces in an effort to including two exhibits on human rights, a photography exhibit about understand the contours of educational Bulgaria at Boston’s Logan International Airport, international student inequity in China. During his travels he spent time in more than 300 conferences with the Harvard College in Asia Project, and the annual schools, talking to students, teachers, principals, and education officials. edition of La Vida: The Guide to Latino Life at Harvard. Moved by the magnitude of the problem, Andrea founded Teach For China to aid in China’s ongoing effort to bring quality educational resources to all children, irrespective of where they are born. After launching the CHILE organization in February 2008, Andrea recruited Hu Tingting and Rachel Tomás Recart Wasser as members of Teach For China’s founding team. CEO Andrea studied at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and Enseña Chile International Affairs at Princeton University, where he focused on education in Chinese rural reform policies and the New Socialist Tomás Recart began to think of education as Countryside Campaign. As an undergraduate, Andrea served as a a systemic problem while working as a civil director of Princeton University’s Interact Program, engaging his peers engineer for four and a half years with low-income in an effort to help provide underprivileged high-school students in the municipalities in the Metropolitan Region of Chile. Trenton City area with a quality education. In 2006, he began to pursue his master’s degree at Harvard’s Kennedy School. In 2011, Andrea was recognized as the most influential foreign citizen During his first month at Harvard, Tomás attended a presentation in which he residing in China by China Newsweek Magazine. heard Wendy Kopp speak about Teach For America and its Theory of Change.

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COLOMBIA ECUADOR Pablo Jaramillo Juan Carlos Pérez Borja CEO CEO Enseña por Colombia Enseña Ecuador

Pablo is one of the three founders of Enseña Prior to starting Enseña Ecuador, Juan por Colombia. He spent the last two years Carlos worked in both the non-profit and as board member and was highly involved in for-profit sectors. He first interned at an Enseña’s 2013 growth. Ecuadorian NGO that worked on child labor Prior to co-founding Enseña por Colombia, Pablo spent four years at the eradication at local landfills, managing multiple projects and building the Colombian government working in the Office of the President, the poverty organization´s first ever electronic database. alleviation strategy “Juntos,” and the National Planning Department. Prior to starting Enseña Ecuador, Juan Carlos worked in both the non- He also co-founded Volunteers Colombia, an NGO that places American profit and for-profit sectors. He first interned at an Ecuadorian NGO that volunteers in underserved communities to teach English. worked on child labor eradication at local landfills, managing multiple His work led Pablo to become so passionate about education that he projects and building the organization´s first ever electronic database. left the government for the education nonprofit world. Pablo has been After graduating from Grinnell College (Iowa) with a BA in Economics Volunteers Colombia CEO since 2012 and has managed to bring more and Global Development Studies, Juan Carlos moved to Albuquerque, than 200 American volunteers to underprivileged schools, partnering New Mexico, to work for a non-medical health care provider, where he with the central government (including the Ministry of Education), local was in charge of all the financials for three different offices, including governments, and other education institutions. budgeting, planning, accounting, and payroll processes. Pablo has a Master’s in Public Administration (MPA) from the Harvard In 2012, Juan Carlos returned to Ecuador to begin developing a strategy for Kennedy School of Government, and a B.A. and M.A. in Economics from Enseña Ecuador, which led to the organization’s establishment in May 2013. LMU Munich University in Germany. He was a scholarship recipient of Colfuturo and of the Global Competitiveness Leadership Program at Georgetown University. Since 2013, Pablo has served on the board of ESTONIA SOS Children’s Villages Colombia, a nonprofit organization that provides Kristi Klaasmagi homes for orphaned and abandoned children. CEO Noored Kooli

DENMARK Kristi Klaasmägi was appointed CEO of Noored Jesper Bergmann Kooli in January 2013. Before joining the Noored CEO Kooli team, Kristi worked for the Hubert H. Teach First Danmark Humphrey Fellowship, a 10-month long study and professional experience program for mid-career professionals from developing Jesper Bergmann is one of the co-founders of countries all over the world, at the Institute of International Education in Teach First Danmark and has been the CEO Washington, DC. There, Kristi developed a thorough understanding of the since November 2014. management and development of educational exchange programs. Together with another co-founder and Before moving to the United States, Kristi worked for the Estonian Chairman of the Board, Richard Bundsgaard, Jesper learned about Teach liberal political party, Reformierakond, as well as for a minister For America when studying at UNC Chapel Hill and was inspired by the representing the party in the Estonian government. She is also a organization's ability to attract bright, motivated students—an approach founding member of the youth movement of Reformierakond. he believed could be successfully adapted in Denmark. Kristi is a mother of two young children and lives with her family in Jesper holds an undergraduate degree in International Business from Tallinn, Estonia. Copenhagen Business School and a graduate degree in Economics and Management of Innovation and Technology from Bocconi University in Milan. Before joining Teach First Danmark full time, he worked for two technology startups in a variety of roles within operations, sales, and marketing.

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FRANCE GHANA Nadia Marik-Descoings Daniel Dotse CEO CEO Teach For France Teach For Ghana

Following her experience in the communications Prior to establishing Teach For Ghana, Daniel sector, most notably as the Deputy Director worked as a biotechnologist at Regeneron of TBWA, Nadia Marik-Descoings committed Pharmaceuticals Inc. At Regeneron, his role herself to the public sector. She has practiced entailed purifying protein molecules for the in the Administrative Court, first as Counselor, from 1997–1999, then as manufacture of active pharmaceutical products for treating various Government Commissioner until 2000, and finally as First Counselor, from diseases. He credits this experience for exposing him to the power of social 2013–2015. Nadia served as Executive Director of France’s Fondation change on a large scale. For him, it was incredibly rewarding to produce Nationale des Sciences Politiques from 2000–2002 and then as Deputy innovative drugs that were accessible to a large number of individuals. Director from 2002–2013. Before he ventured into the pharmaceutical world, Daniel studied biomedical engineering at Cornell University with a keen interest in nanotechnology. Daniel’s Cornell education was made possible by the Lester GERMANY B. Knight Scholarship for bright low-income students with a strong interest Ulf Matysiak in engineering and business. The impact of the scholarship went beyond CEO financial freedom to pursue his passions, and Daniel was compelled and Teach First Deutschland motivated to explore ways he could positively impact others in the way that the scholarship opportunity opened up doors for him. This led him to Teach First Deutschland (TFD) was founded in establish a 30,000-book capacity library in his home country, Ghana. 2007 by Kaija Landsberg and Michael Okrob Daniel started basic school in the Northern part of Ghana, where after the two wrote their master’s thesis on the access to quality education is a luxury. He recalls his third grade class adaptability of the Teach For America/Teach experience, where 80 students crammed in one classroom with no First model to Germany. Today, Teach First Deutschland has 118 Fellows chairs, exercise books, or teaching aids. Worse, the class teacher rarely working in five of the 16 German states, as well as 92 alumni continuing showed up. This story is emblematic of the harsh realities of many to address educational inequity across all sectors of German society. impoverished communities in Ghana. This is the fundamental driving Ulf Matysiak joined Teach First Deutschland in 2007 in its early stages. force for Teach For Ghana. With Teach For Ghana, Daniel hopes to help He quickly transitioned to become the organization’s head of training build a country where every child has access to an excellent education. and support, a position he held until 2011. Today, Ulf leads Teach First Daniel received his graduate degree from Cornell University, and his Deutschland along with Kaija Landsberg. undergraduate degree from Arcadia University, where he majored in chemistry Prior to joining Teach First Deutschland, Ulf worked at International and minored in economics and physics. He is also a product of Achimota House Berlin where he trained teachers as well as tutors. Ulf ’s School, a place he credits for the change in his academic trajectory. involvement in youth and education policy started early as a student in Berlin-Kreuzberg. At the age of 18 he held his first talks on education reform, advising Stuttgart City Councils and state parliament fractions on HAITI various education and youth policy issues. Nedgine Paul In Freiburg, Ulf was engaged in a number of initiatives, including the CEO Youth Parliament Freiburg he established in 1999, and the tri-national Anseye Pou Ayiti Youth Parliament he designed that included delegates from Switzerland and France. He later worked for the Youth Welfare Office in Freiburg as Nedgine is the co-founder and CEO of Anseye Pou a “Streetworker” and was responsible for the building of a youth center Ayiti, which seeks to raise education outcomes in the city. in rural Haiti by promoting teacher excellence Ulf enjoys running, cooking, and writing and lives in Berlin, Germany, and student success—rooted in Haitian culture, with his wife. customs, and community. She has experience in the non-profit sector with an emphasis on promoting equal educational opportunities for all children.

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Originally from Haiti, Nedgine moved to the U.S. at a young age and ISRAEL maintained ongoing leadership roles in community service and youth Asaf Banner development programs, particularly within the Haitian community of CEO Stamford and Norwalk, Connecticut. Her previous roles at Achievement Teach First Israel First, the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut, and WorldTeach included opportunities to manage recruitment, staff orientation, tutoring, and The CEO and founder of Teach First Israel governance duties, as well as the development of a school principal (Chotam in Hebrew) since its launch in 2009, residency program. Nedgine worked with Partners In Health to manage Asaf continues to lead the organization and onboarding, benefits, and workforce planning for the organization’s manage day-to-day operations to ensure transnational teams—as well as co-developed and facilitated management maximum impact. Prior to founding Teach First Israel, Asaf had been trainings for over 150 staff, primarily in Haiti. She has conducted teacher working in the non-profit sector for over 10 years. He co-founded and co- training seminars and extensive research about the historical, cultural, directed various organizations, including The Good Neighbor, which seeks and socioeconomic factors contributing to Haiti’s school system. to promote volunteerism within one’s neighborhood through several large Nedgine earned a B.A. in History from Yale College and an Ed.M. scale projects, such as food distribution to over 1500 families across Israel, in International Education Policy from the Harvard Graduate School the creation of coffee shops in marginalized communities, and academic of Education. In 2014, she was named among the top global social support for struggling students. Asaf was the CEO and co-founder of the innovators by Echoing Green. She is passionate about joining forces with Be-Maagaley Tzedek, an organization that created the Tav Chevrati—a seal others to continue pursuing her deep commitment to the expansion of of approval granted free of charge to restaurants and other businesses that high-quality educational opportunity in Haiti. respect the legally-mandated rights of their employees and are accessible to people with disabilities—and has become a worldwide program. Asaf also co-founded the Psifas Foundation, a fund that aims to improve the INDIA face of Israeli society by offering significant financial donations to people Shaheen Mistri with specific needs. He was awarded the Ernst & Young award for social CEO entrepreneurs in 2009 for his non-profit work. Teach For India Asaf earned an M.B.A. and a B.A in Psychology and Business Administration from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and is married Shaheen Mistri is the founder and CEO of and the father of two sons, Nadav and Matan. Teach For India. Over the past three years, Teach For India has placed over 500 Fellows in schools across Mumbai, Pune, and Delhi. JAPAN Two hundred Teach For India Alumni are now impacting the organization’s Yusuke Matsuda mission from within and outside education. CEO Shaheen is also the founder of the Akanksha Foundation, a non-profit Teach For Japan organization with a mission to impact the lives of low-income children, enabling them to maximize their potential and transform their lives. Yusuke Matsuda has been working to bring Akanksha started after- school centers for its students, with a focus on the Teach for America and Teach First model English, math, values, and extra-curricular activities, and then changed to Japan since he founded Teach For Japan its model to running schools in partnership with the government. Over the (formerly known as “Learning for All”) in July past 20 years, Akanksha has expanded from 15 children in one centre of 2010. However, his passion foreducation and desire to make this to over 4000 children across its after-school centers and 9 schools in model become a reality dates back much further. Mumbai and Pune. In his first job as a teacher, Yusuke made it his number one priority to Shaheen earned her Masters in Education from the University of always support, encourage, and push his students to achieve their best. Manchester. She is an Ashoka Fellow (2001), a Global Leader for He developed a “Sports English” program that incorporated the use of Tomorrow at the World Economic Forum (2002), an Asia Society 21 English in physical education classes as a new way for students to learn Leader (2006) and serves on the boards of Akanksha, Ummeed, and The the language, a subject many of them disliked. Thermax Social Initiatives Foundation. She also serves as a committee As a club sports instructor, he led a track and field team that at first member for the National Council for Teacher Education. could not even reach the city competition to the national competitions

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league. When he took a peek at the classroom next door, however, he LEBANON realized that there were teachers who only faced the blackboard while Salyne El Samarany teaching, and never the students. CEO Unable to let go of the fact that there were teachers who didn’t put Teach For Lebanon all of their energy into helping students reach their full potential, Yusuke began to think of how he could change the education system in Japan to Salyne is actively involved in civil society bring more inspiring teachers to the students. He worked as an education issues. She participated in the Middle policy analyst in Chiba prefecture’s Board of Education, but realized that East Partnership Initiative Program for politics and bureaucracy didn’t provide the answer. Student Leaders at Georgetown University Yusuke was introduced to Teach for America when Wendy Kopp spoke in Washington, D.C. in 2007, has represented Lebanon in many at the Harvard Graduate School of Education where he was a graduate international conferences, and was chosen as the Lebanese Ambassador student. He immediately knew that this model was one that Japan needed of Youth at the Arab Thought Foundation in 2011. in order to help students all over the country who were struggling. He wrote Salyne's passion for providing an excellent education for children and his graduate thesis on the feasibility of this model in Japan, and concluded her faith in youth leadership were strengthened by the two years she spent that the realization may be very difficult due to various factors. as a Teach For Lebanon Fellow in north Lebanon. As CEO of Teach For Undeterred by his own thesis conclusion, after a stint as a Lebanon, Salyne believes that providing equal educational opportunities management consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers, Yusuke decided for Lebanese children is at the core of the nation's well-being. to pursue the model with all of the energy and passion he had. Learning Salyne El Samarany is a Nutrition and Diet Therapist graduate from for All began as afterschool supplementary education programs called the Holy Spirit University of Kaslik (USEK), pursuing her studies in Terakoya that bring university students to teach students in need. Yusuke Masters of Business Administration and Management at the University and his full-time and volunteer staff of over 150 have run nearly 50 of Balamand (UOB). Terakoya programs, reaching over 900 students and recruiting over 350 university student participants. Following this success, Teach For Japan placed its first cohort of full-time teachers in April 2013. LITHUANIA Gabriele Characiejiene˙ CEO LATVIA Renkuosi Mokyti! M¯artinš ̡ K¯alis CEO Prior to becoming the CEO for Renkuosi Iesp¯ejam¯a Misija Mokyti! Gabriele Characiejiene˙ was the Head of Communications for the organization as well as An alumnus of lesp¯ejam¯a Misija, M¯artinš̡ is an alumna of the first cohort, in which she taught a former president and international project English to fifth through tenth graders. She holds a B.A. in Political Science manager of the Latvian youth association and has worked for the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Lithuania. Tellus, Vice-President of the Latvian Youth After completing her two-year teaching commitment, Gabriele earned an Council, and external economics researcher at the Baltic International MA in Philosophy of Education from the Institute of Education in London. Centre for Economic Policy Studies. As a lesp¯ejam¯a Misija participant, As an alumna, Gabriele was the leader/moderator of a team of Renkuosi he taught mathematics and programming for two years at the Limbaži Mokyti! alumni who participated in a national Ministry of Education 1st Secondary School, and continued to be involved in the selection competition for project designs for a new Lithuanian Strategy of Education. and tutoring of participants as an alumnus. K¯alis has also served as an The team of alumni won the competition, and their design and suggested external expert for the European Union program Youth in Action and is a ideas are included into the National Education Strategy for the next 10 years. co-founder of the educational website macibuvideo.lv, in which he is still Gabriele continues to be passionate about education in Lithuania and actively involved, creating video tutorials in mathematics. is excited to lead Renkuosi Mokyti! in its mission to make a significant M¯artinš̡ has a Bachelor’s degree in Economics and Business impact on students in Lithuania. Administration from the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga and is now studying for a Master’s degree in Modern Elementary Mathematics and Mathematical Didactics at the University of Latvia.

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MALAYSIA Erik is involved with several organizations, including the Mexican American Dzameer Dzulkifli Leadership Initiative of the US Mexico Foundation, and the Mexican CEO Professional Network of the Ministry of Foreign Relations of Mexico, of which Teach For Malaysia he is the General Secretary and founding member. From 2008-2009, he acted as Executive Director of the Bi-National Councils of NGOs created by the Dzameer Dzulkifli is Managing Director and a US State Department. Previously, Erik worked with The Washington Center, Co-Founder of Teach For Malaysia. Armed with the Mexican Ministry of Education, the US Department of Commerce, the US his M. Eng. (Hons) in Mechanical Engineering Mexico Chamber of Commerce, and the Center for Inter-American Law. from Imperial College London, Dzameer is a Erik holds a Master of Global Business from the TRIUM Global Executive passionate educational devotee. He truly believes that Teach For Malaysia MBA Program, a program jointly managed by New York University Stern School will be the nurturing ground for future visionary leaders who will enhance of Business, London School of Economics and Political Sciences, and HEC Malaysia’s educational and national landscapes. School of Management, Paris. He holds a diploma in Emerging Markets from Prior to founding Teach For Malaysia, Dzameer channeled his John Hopkins University. He received his Bachelor’s degree from ITESM in enthusiasm and determination as a management consultant at Business Management. Pricewaterhouse Coopers in 2007, where he played a key role in the implementation of a human capital blueprint for a prominent economic region in Malaysia. As a weekly volunteer teaching Mathematics at NEPAL the UNHCR Burmese Refugee Education Centre in Kuala Lumpur, Shisir Khanal his dedication significantly impacted the learning capabilities of the CEO schoolchildren, accelerating their Math progress from a Primary 4-level Teach for Nepal to a Secondary 2-level within the short period of 9 months. In his free time, Dzameer practices the Brazilian martial art of Prior to becoming the Co-Founder and CEO of Capoeira and spends quality time with his family and friends. Teach for Nepal, Shisir Khanal worked as the Executive Director of Sarvodaya USA, a Madison, Wisconsin-based non-profit organization that MEXICO supports grassroots social movements around the world. As Executive Erik Ramirez-Ruiz Director, Shisir managed the operations, programs, donor relations, CEO communications and fundraising efforts for Sarvodaya USA. The initiative has Enseña por México strong roots in Sri Lanka, and in 2008, Shisir established Sarvodaya Nepal. In 2010, he led a Facebook-based campaign to win $100,000 to construct Erik Ramírez-Ruiz is the president of Enseña por a green school building for the Jyotidaya Cooperative School in Nepal. México, a that works to improve Prior to working at Sarvodaya USA, Shisir was a Research Assistant academic outcomes of underserved children, at Robert M. La Follette School at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, while building a larger movement of leaders that interned with the United Nations Development Program in Nepal, and will promote a systemic change in the country’s education system. Enseña worked at the Connecticut General Assembly. He completed his Master’s por México is proud to be part of the global network Teach For All. degree in International Public Affairs (MIPA) in 2005 from the La Follette Prior to founding Enseña por México, Erik was Chief of Global Strategy School of Public Affairs at University of Wisconsin-Madison. and Chief of Staff to the International President of NCCEP, a non-profit In 2012, the University of Wisconsin Alumni Association awarded organization based in Washington DC, with presence in several countries. Shisir with the “Forty Under 40” Award for his outstanding work in NCCEP’s mission is to develop and strengthen broad-based public private sustainable development. partnerships throughout the education continuum, from early childhood through post-secondary education. Since 2004, Erik has also acted as Executive Director of IDE Group, a consulting business with presence in the USA and in Mexico that helps organizations and governments create, structure, and implement programs and projects, develop strategies and build teams. IDE Group represents several US universities and corporations in México.

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NEW ZEALAND Lorena holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, with a minor in Shaun Sutton Cognitive Science from Georgetown University and a Master’s Degree CEO in Public Policy from Columbia University. Lorena is an avid foodie and Teach First NZ traveler, having "eaten her way" through 45 countries. She currently resides in Panama with her husband, Billy, and son, Bobby. Shaun Sutton is Chief Executive of Teach First New Zealand. Before returning to his hometown of Auckland to begin the process of PERU establishing Teach First New Zealand, Shaun Franco Mosso was a Teach First participant at a secondary school in West London. He CEO came to know the successes of the program first-hand, and during his EnseñaPerú time teaching he achieved a 100% pass rate for his GCSE-level classes. Shaun also introduced to the school a debating club, and led the school’s Franco Mosso is the co-founder and CEO of first ever involvement in the Bridges to Africa charity walk. EnseñaPerú. An economist who graduated Before his time with Teach First in Britain, Shaun worked for two from Peru’s Universidad de la Pacífico, he also years in London as a Business Analyst, specializing in the telecoms and serves as a Leadership Consultant and specialist media markets. He has an MA degree from the University of Leeds, in management of change at the Center for Adaptive Leadership in Latin and has recently completed a Postgraduate Certificate in Leadership America, and is a member of the Strategic Committee of CADE Universitario, at the Institute of Education in London. Shaun completed his entire the prestigious annual national conference for the engagement of talented undergraduate degree on scholarship in Japan and South Korea, where university seniors for the development of education in Peru. he successfully tested for a black belt in taekwondo. Franco taught at Universidad del Pacífico as an assistant teacher in Shaun has worked in the third sector for Tearfund, an NGO that posted advanced macroeconomics and advanced mathematics. His inspiration to him to Rwanda for three months, and at Teach For All, the global network contribute with his country begun while doing research on microfinance that helps share best practices in education across partner organisations for rural areas in Peru, shortly after which he decided to take on the around the world. challenge of education. Prior to transitioning to the CEO role, Franco led all of EnseñaPerú’s programmatic functions, including recruitment, selection, ongoing support, alumni, placement, and government relations. PANAMA During his time on staff at EnseñaPerú, Franco met his wife, who Lorena Valencia brings happiness and new meaning to his life. CEO Enseña por Panamá Lorena Valencia is a Co-founder and CEO Clarissa Isabelle Delgado of Enseña por Panamá. Prior to launching CEO Enseña por Panamá, Lorena headed the Teach for the Philippines Panama chapter of Learning Enterprises, which she founded in 2005. LE Panama focuses on teaching the English Clarissa Delgado is a Co-founder of Teach for language in rural communities by enlisting the help of U.S. college the Philippines and its Chief Executive Officer. students to serve as teacher/mentors during their summer breaks. Before her work with Teach for the Philippines, Under her stewardship, LE Panama has recruited over 100 teacher/ Clarissa was the Special Projects Director at mentors, and has forged a community of over 70 host families and 25 Sa Aklat Sisikat Foundation, where she managed the impact survey of the public schools. Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Poverty Action Lab and directed In addition to her involvement in LE Panama, Lorena has worked projects for private corporations and multilateral organizations, such extensively in both the private and social sectors. She has held several as the Asian Development Bank. Clarissa also serves as non-executive significant positions within the United Nations, including at UNICEF and director of Delbros, Inc. and as a Fellow of the Institute of Corporate UNFPA, and is currently a founding member of the Panama chapter of Directors, she is professionally trained in corporate governance. the World Economic Forum’s Global Shapers initiative.

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SLOVAKIA (SLOVAK REPUBLIC) QATAR Stanislav Boledovicˇ Mohammed Fakhroo CEO CEO Teach For Slovakia Teach For Qatar Stanislav Boledovicˇ is a social entrepreneur An avid traveller, Mohammed Fakhroo has and educator working to make significant had the opportunity to explore a variety of improvement in the education system in communities and experience the potential Slovakia. Prior to founding Teach For Slovakia, effects of inadequate education. Determined he was a high school math teacher and the Co-founder of Ucˇite' 2020, to ensure that every child has access to a quality education in his local a non-profit initiative with a mission to dramatically increase the community and beyond, Mohammed, along with the incredible support appeal of the teaching profession in Slovakia. Stanislav was also the of the founder, Her Excellency Sheikha Hind bint Hamad, launched founding curator of 2013 World Economic Forum Global Shaper's Hub in Teach For Qatar in the fall of 2013. As CEO, Mohammed is committed to Bratislava and sits on the board of several non-profit initiatives. empowering the youth of today to develop the leaders of tomorrow. Earlier in his career, Stanislav was a management consultant for clients Prior to launching Teach For Qatar, Mohammed led a diverse career including McKinsey & Company, Poštová Banka, and Raiffeisen Banka. in commercial investment and real estate. He holds a BA (Hons) in He is married with two children and contributes blogs to etrend.sk. Business Administration with Marketing from the University of Brighton.

SPAIN ROMANIA Javier Rogla John Soleanicov CEO CEO Empieza por Educar Teach For Romania In July 2009, Javier Rogla was working as a Born in Romania, raised in America, with Principal at The Boston Consulting Group when more than 10 years global experience in he was approached by Ana Botín, who would financial services, management consulting, later become Chair of Empieza por Educar. Not and education, John Soleanicov was recently long after, Javier became the CEO of Empieza por Educar, where he has a a Senior Associate with McKinsey and Company. He previously worked lead a terrific and committed team through the successful launch of two for the Department of Health & Education IFC - International Finance cohorts in the midst of a very dire economic environment in Spain and Corporation, where he developed the innovative features of student massive education cuts— including teacher layoffs. loans and grants for schools in partnership with local banks in Mexico, Javier graduated as MSc in Industrial Engineering and holds an MBA Egypt, Ghana, and Kenya. Earlier in his career, John worked for Lehman with honors from INSEAD. After graduating from university, he worked Brothers in New York and founded Streetwise Partners DC, a mentoring for five years as an international development consultant for Endesa, program that connects young professionals with low-income individuals a Spain-based utility. Upon completion of his MBA, Javier joined BCG, seeking jobs. where he worked for five years on organization- and strategy-related John holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, an MPA/ID projects. He also spent close to two years helping Save the Children (Master in Public Administration/International Development) from re-shape their global organization and governance. In this capacity, Harvard Kennedy School, and a BA from Columbia University. he served as the Social Impact Node for the Barcelona office, and participated in the launch of the Barcelona Volunteering Day as well as the development of the Spanish BCG Matching Program. In addition to being a passionate social entrepreneur, Javier is an eager traveler and a sports aficionado who has coached basketball for seven years.

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SWEDEN Ida Karlberg Gidlund Brett Wigdortz CEO CEO Teach For Sweden Teach First

Ida is the CEO for Teach for Sweden and, Brett Wigdortz has led Teach First as its CEO since 2010, has been the CEO for the non- since its launch in July 2002. Teach First is profit organization Rektorsakademien, a currently the 3rd most prestigious graduate leading professional network for leadership in recruiter in the United Kingdom and is working education and business with over 11,000 members. to close the achievement gap in and Wales between children She began her career as a science teacher and later became a from low- income backgrounds and their wealthier peers. Brett wrote the principal. Ida has served as a consultant and speaker on a variety business plan for the charity while working as a management consultant of subjects, including vision, value-driven organizations, leadership, at McKinsey & Company and then took what was initially planned as communication, and employer branding. During her years as a principal a six-month leave of absence in February 2002 to develop and build she also designed and managed a project entitled “Student Coaching.” support for the idea. Previously, he has worked as a consultant, a Ida has a Masters of Education from Stockholm University and journalist and researcher. Lärarhögskolan and was a speaker at the Nordic Head Teacher Originally from New Jersey, Brett has an Honors Bachelor’s degree in Conference in 2010. She has been honored as one of the 75 nominees Economics from the University of Richmond and a Master’s degree in for future women leaders in Sweden three years in a row. Economics from the University of Hawai’i. He currently serves as a trustee of PEAS (Promoting Equality in African Schools) and Future Leaders, which recruits and trains the next generation of outstanding head teachers for THAILAND challenging urban secondary schools. He is also the co-founder of Teach Vichitapol Pholpoke For All and a trustee and strategy adviser to the network. CEO Brett was named the UK Ernst & Young Social Entrepreneur of the Teach For Thailand Year in 2007 and was awarded the 2010 CASE European Leadership Award. Brett’s book, Success Against The Odds, a candid account of the Vichitapol is the CEO and Founder of Teach For first 10 years of Teach First, was published in September 2012. He is Thailand. Inspired by the idea of young people married with two small children. coming together to make a positive impact in society through education, combined with a passion for educational equality, Vichitapol has been developing Teach UNITED STATES For Thailand since 2010 to determine the best way to optimize the Elisa Villanueva Beard program in the Thai context. CEO Born and raised in Bangkok, Vichitapol holds a B.A. in Political Science Teach For America from the University of Oklahoma. After graduation, Vichitapol worked in the marketing and communication field in Singapore, advising clients in Elisa Villanueva Beard’s passion for the public and private sectors. He returned to Thailand in late 2011 to educational equity comes from personal focus on launching Teach For Thailand after attending the Teach For All experience. Elisa grew up in the Rio Grande immersion conference. Since then, Vichitapol has been working on Teach Valley of South Texas and developed a deep For Thailand full-time, building support for the program in preparation for commitment to Teach For America’s mission at DePauw University, a 2013 launch with the goal of placing 50 Fellows in 2014. where she was one of just a few Mexican- American students. Her journey with Teach For America began 15 years ago in Phoenix, Arizona, where she taught first and second grade bilingual education as a 1998 corps member. She joined Teach For America’s staff in 2001 to lead the organization’s work in her hometown in the position of executive director. Elisa was inspired to take on this role because she saw her community beginning to have a different conversation as a result of the work corps

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members and alumni were doing. Four years later, she stepped into the role of chief operating officer, leading Teach For America’s field operations. During her eight years in the role, Villanueva Beard led Teach For America’s dramatic growth from 22 regions to 46. It is in these regions where Teach For America’s program is put into practice and 80% of its funding is raised. In 2013, Elisa was named co-CEO alongside Matt Kramer. Under their leadership, Teach For America currently impacts more than 750,000 students in over 2,600 schools. Together they manage the leadership team, work with the board, and are held fully accountable for the organization’s success. Elisa holds a B.A. in sociology from DePauw University. She lives with her husband Jeremy and their three sons in Houston, Texas.

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