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Dr Randa Grob-Zakhary, Founder & CEO
Randa Grob-Zakhary, M.D., PhD, is the Founder and CEO of Education.org (EO). Motivated by training in medicine and neuroscience, she moved into global education to contribute to reducing the gap between knowledge and practice and has worked closely with ministries of education and other education leaders. She is a former Board Member with the Global Partnership for Education, and the former Chair of its Strategy and Impact Committee. Prior roles include: CEO, LEGO Foundation; Global Head of Education, Porticus; High-Level Working Group OECD Education 2030; Senior Fellow, Brookings Institute; Management Consultant, McKinsey. She holds an M.D. and PhD in neuroscience from Johns Hopkins University (USA).
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Dr Jean-Marc Bernard, Chief Technical Officer
Jean-Marc is a global education expert with three decades of experience spanning Sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, Europe and the Caribbean. He leads the Country Programmes Department and contributes to synthesis planning and work. As a member of the Senior Management Team, he supports the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and contributes to the organisational management of Education.org and successful implementation of its Strategy 2023-2028. Jean-Marc has spearheaded initiatives to enhance education quality, promote evidence-informed decision-making, and drive systemic change in education systems worldwide. With a strong focus on research, policy, and institutional strengthening, he has held leadership roles at various international organisations such as the Global Partnership for Education (GPE), UNESCO-Dakar, PASEC-CONFEMEN. He holds a PhD in economics from the University of Burgundy (France).
Georgina Mallory, Chief Communications Officer
Georgina is Education.org's Head of Communications and Engagement and a member of the Senior Management Team. Georgina is a seasoned Senior Marketing and Communications Director, with over a decade of international experience, having worked in the U.K., the Middle East, as well as Central and Southeast Asia. Before joining the Education.org team, Georgina was a Senior Director at Edelman, both in the UK and in Singapore. Over the last fifteen years, Georgina has acted as a communications advisor to some of the world’s largest tech, finance, healthcare, and F&B companies. Georgina also has experience working within government, acting as Head of Content at the U.K.’s Department for International Trade in 2017/18, where she collaborated closely with the GREAT campaign team. Georgina enjoys working with talented colleagues across the world to develop and deliver thoughtful, evidence-based, and impactful communications.
Dr Kilemi Mwiria, Managing Director - Africa
Kilemi is Education.org's Managing Director, Africa. He supports the growth of our Africa team in identifying, designing, and implementing initiatives developed with country partners to improve the enabling institutional and policy environments for heightening evidence use in education at the government level in Sub-Saharan Africa. He served as Kenya’s Assistant Minister for Education, was an elected member of parliament and Senior Education Advisor to Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta. Previously, he was a university lecturer and researcher (Kenyatta University, Kenya and the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa); development consultant; member of the Bureau of Education Ministers, Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA); Board member of UNESCO's Institute for Lifelong Learning; and Chairman of Kenya's National Qualifications Authority. Dr Mwiria holds a doctorate degree in international education from Stanford University, a master’s degree in comparative education from the University of Chicago, and a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Nairobi.
Dr Evelyn Jepkemei, Senior Education Officer
Based in Nairobi, Kenya, Evelyn leads Education.org's engagement with the Ministries of Education in Kenya and Uganda, helping to drive the development of best-in-class technical leadership to Education.org's partners and collaborators in East Africa. Her role involves identifying, designing, and implementing initiatives developed with country partners to improve the enabling institutional and policy environments for promoting evidence use in education at the government level in Sub-Saharan Africa. Evelyn is currently the Executive Secretary for Education Evidence for Action in Kenya, and has previously worked as: Regional Education Advisor, World University Service of Canada; Senior Education Specialist, RTI-International; and, Senior Assistant Director, Curriculum and Research, Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development. She holds a PhD in education management and policy studies from Moi University Kenya, where she also earned a bachelor’s degree in education; and a master’s degree in education research from Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium.
Giulia Di Filippantonio, Programme Director
Based in Freetown, Sierra Leone, Giulia has more than 10 years’ professional experience in programme design, management, research and evaluation in the development and humanitarian sector. Before joining Education.Org she held both leadership and technical roles with various INGO and UN Agencies. Giulia holds a Master of International Affairs from the University of Trieste, Italy, with a specialisation in Oriental Studies from the INALCO-Paris (Institut National de Langues et Civilisation Orientales), and a Master of Education from the Institute of Education of the University College of London. Passionate about girls and women’s rights, she also conducted research on gender issues in the MENA region with the Faculty of Political Sciences of Cairo University, the Al Ahram Centre for Political and Strategic Studies and the Arab Reform Forum, the IMA (Institut du Monde Arabe) and IREMMO (Institut de Recherche et d'Études sur la Méditerranée et le Moyen Orient), with a focus on anthropology of Islam and gender issues.
Dr Sophia D'Angelo, Senior Education Officer
Sophia is an education specialist supporting Education.org’s Evidence Synthesis team. With over 12 years of experiencing working in development and humanitarian contexts, she has a proven track record of conducting systematic and rapid evidence reviews, mappings, policy analyses, as well as primary research. Sophia has consulted for various organisations, including the World Bank, GPE, INEE, and UNICEF, and has published on a range of topics, including teacher professional development, gender-transformative and disability-inclusive education, EdTech, ECCE, and youth development. Based in the Dominican Republic, Sophia has extensive experience working in the regions of Latin America and the Caribbean, sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. She holds a PhD and MPhil from the University of Cambridge’s The REAL Centre, and a BA from Princeton University.
Deirdre Beecher, Information Specialist
Deirdre is responsible for information retrieval and management for Education.org's projects and evidence syntheses. She has many years' experience working as an information specialist with Cochrane and holds a masters in Library and Information Science from Aberystwyth University, UK.
Kenechukwu Nwagbo, LIFT Scholar
Originally from Nigeria, Kenechukwu is a third-year PhD candidate in Education and International Development at the University of Cambridge. Her research explores the political economy of education reforms with a focus on public-private partnerships in education. Before the PhD, Kenechukwu managed global and domestic partnerships for education and international development around the world. This included coordinating the implementation of a USAID-funded education activity for 200,000 students in northern Nigeria, to managing research collaborations between UN agencies and think tanks across Africa, Asia, and Latin America. She holds an MPhil in Education, Globalisation and International Development from the University of Cambridge, and a B.A. in International and Comparative Politics from the American University of Nigeria.
Ana Tabacaru
Ana is a Communications and Engagement Officer supporting Education.org’s outreach activities. She brings over seven years of experience at the interface of policy and research, with a particular focus on education policy. Her previous roles include working as a Policy Analyst at the OECD Directorate for Education and Skills, where she supported education reforms in Romania, and as a Policy Manager at J-PAL Europe, where she helped promote evidence-based policymaking across Europe and francophone Africa. Ana holds a Master's in International Development from Sciences Po Paris and a Bachelor's in Politics and International Relations from the University of Aberdeen. She is fluent in Romanian, English, and French, and has working knowledge of Spanish.
Eileen O'Malley, Senior Advisor
Eileen has over 18 years of experience in diverse education and international development settings, primarily focused on policy development, partnership management, strategy design, program management, analysis, and communications. She began her career at the Higher Education Authority (HEA) – the policy advisory arm for the third level sector in Ireland, and later served as Senior Manager of Fulbright US Student Programs for Europe & Eurasia at the Institute of International Education (IIE) in New York. Eileen then transitioned to the philanthropic sector with Porticus, managing global education programs aimed at fostering inclusivity in education for children facing extreme adversity. She has also contributed to key projects with education.org, including the High-Level Policy Guidance on Post-Covid Recovery (2021). Recently, Eileen co-authored a chapter in the NORRAG Special Issue on Foundational Learning (2024) and led the key sectoral publication of Challenging the False Dichotomy: An Evidence Synthesis (2023), emphasizing the importance of social and emotional skills in education systems. Eileen holds an MA in Management and a BA International Degree in History and Politics from University College Dublin (UCD).