Network Partner CEOs ARGENTINA to unlock their full potential through an excellent education. 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 Teach For America model in Argentina. In March, 2011, with the in Special Education from Arizona State University. Larisa is an avid support of the Teach For All 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. 1 Network Partner CEOs 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 Teach First 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. 2 Network Partner CEOs 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.