Designation: Analyst

André recently completed a Master’s in Public Policy at the University of Oxford. Prior to his studies, André worked for the State Government of Minas Gerais, in Brazil, as a Specialist in Public Policy and Government Management. He worked at the Department of Education for 4 years with data management, analysis, and visualization. André has also conducted research on another area of interest: agriculture and food security. He wrote his undergraduate monograph on agricultural development and agroecology and, in 2022, he worked with the Office of the Prime Minister’s Chief Science Advisor, in New Zealand, doing research on agriculture and climate change. His background is in public administration, public policy, and data science.

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Hannah Walker is the Portfolio Lead for UK education at Open Development and Education. She has worked in both international and UK-based education settings for over eight years.  Prior to joining the team, she worked in UK secondary state schools for four years, focusing on work with pupil premium students and the use of technology as a monitoring and assessment tool. She holds an MPhil in International Development and Education from the University of Cambridge and conducted her research in rural Zimbabwe on teacher professional development and interactive classroom pedagogy. Her international experience spans across multiple projects and countries with a focus on enhancing the quality of women’s education and healthcare through effective professional development and remote learning – key project funders include FCDO, UNICEF, NHS, Dubai Cares.

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Grace is a skilled educational professional with over 10 years’ experience working with educators to develop innovative and inclusive ways to transform teaching and learning. With her background in marketing and product development, she has developed a firm understanding of how to cultivate and foster strategic partnerships while strengthening knowledge sharing value chains.

Grace is the co-founder of a non-profit, Teach for Africa, an organization whose core mandate is to develop capacity in early childhood educators to enhance their inclusive teaching practices. She spearheaded the design, development and rolling out of a toolkit for best practices in inclusive early childhood education for literacy and numeracy. This experience afforded her a deep understanding of the education eco-system in South Africa and Botswana. She is a lifelong advocate of thoughtful dialogues that embrace diversity and promote inclusion.

Grace holds a Master’s degree in early childhood education from the University of Pretoria.

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Anne-Fleur is an analyst at Open Development & Education. She has worked as a secondary school teacher in the Netherlands, where she taught English and Global Citizenship. She has also worked with refugee students and teachers on participatory approaches in designing education materials and platforms for refugee and migrant contexts. She has worked as a researcher on issues related to sustainable partnerships and relationships between small-scale NGOs, their partners, and their beneficiaries in Asia and East Africa. She has an MA from the University of Groningen in English Language and Culture, and an MSc. in Cultural Anthropology and Development Studies from the University of Leuven. Currently, she focuses on mixed methods and participatory research for education policy in education in emergencies.

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Iman is an analyst at Open Development and Education. In 2019 she completed her MSc in Statistics at the University of Southampton where her final project looked at analysing enrolment rates of females in secondary schools in Sierra Leone. She also holds a BSc in Mathematics from the same university. Following her Master’s, she relocated from the United Kingdom to Freetown, Sierra Leone where she began personal maths tutoring for secondary school students. Prior to joining the team, she worked at the Ministry of Basic and Senior Secondary Education as a Data Analyst in the Minister’s Delivery Team

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Gemma Bennett is a psychologist with a specific interest in education, particularly for children with social, emotional and mental health issues. She is also interested in gender and ethnicity. At Open Development & Education, Gemma is responsible for research and quality assurance. Gemma is currently seconded from OpenDevEd to undertake a doctorate in educational psychology.

Ghislaine is an international development professional, passionate and curious about the usage of technology and AI to improve education and learning outcomes at all levels of education. She holds a Masters in Development Economics and International Project Management. She is currently supporting work with the Commonwealth of Learning at ODE. Prior to her career shift to Edtech, she previously worked on several programmes in emergency education, TVET, gender, and participatory development  with UNESCO in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, and the Ministry of Environment of Cameroon. She is currently doing a Masters in Smart Edtech, Co-creativity and Digital tools for Educational Innovation. Her goal is to help individuals to learn better and help policy makers and governments create more tech friendly policies for education and digitalization

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Yomna is an Analyst at Open Development and Education. In 2020, she completed her MPhil in Education, Globalisation, and International Development at the University of Cambridge, where her research focused on the educational experiences of visually-impaired refugees in Lebanon. Her other research has included a review of the literature on community-based education in marginalised communities and an analysis of the beneficiaries of EdTech initiatives in Africa. Prior to joining the team, she worked on the business and curriculum development, and standards verification, of a higher-education institution for students in low- and middle-income countries.

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Callista is an educator with substantial experience teaching and mentoring students and teachers across many geographic areas including the Caribbean, New York, and England. During her time at the University of Pennsylvania, she spent considerable time researching and presenting Caribbean literacies to help bring visibility to the experience of Caribbean immigrant students in US education systems.

She has qualifications in Sociology with minors in International Relations and Human Resource (University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus), MA in Interreligious Dialogue (University of London), and MSed in Reading, Writing, and Literacy (University of Pennsylvania). She is currently a PhD student at Cambridge University, her research focuses on Literacy.

Presently, she is working as an analyst with Open Development and Education where she contributed to projects in the Caribbean including OECS and CARICOM recovery programmes.

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