Network CEOs

Rahmatullah Arman leads Teach For Afghanistan, Afghanistan’s largest youth led organi...

Rahmatullah Arman leads Teach For Afghanistan, Afghanistan’s largest youth led organization, as its President and Founder. Mr.Arman completed his secondary...

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Rahmatullah Arman
Teach For Afghanistan
Afghanistan

Verónica is an Enseña por Argentina alumna. She has a degree in International Relatio...

Verónica is an Enseña por Argentina alumna. She has a degree in International Relations and advanced studies in Education and Public Policy. Prior to her...

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Verónica Cipriota
Enseñá por Argentina
Argentina

As the Founder and CEO of Teach For Armenia, Larisa believes that providing equal edu...

As the Founder and CEO of Teach For Armenia, Larisa believes that providing equal educational opportunities for all children in Armenia is at the core of...

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Larisa Hovannisian
Teach For Armenia
Armenia

Melodie Potts Rosevear has been involved with Teach For Australia since its earliest ...

Melodie Potts Rosevear has been involved with Teach For Australia since its earliest conception. Originally from North Carolina, Melodie came to Australia to...

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Melodie Potts Rosevear
Teach For Australia
Australia

Severin joined Teach For Austria in July 2021. Prior to his appointment, he worked fo...

Severin joined Teach For Austria in July 2021. Prior to his appointment, he worked for Deutsche Bank in several international management roles, most recently as...

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Severin Broucek
Teach For Austria
Austria

Munia Islam Mozumder is a Teach for Bangladesh alumna. Having started her career as a...

Munia Islam Mozumder is a Teach for Bangladesh alumna. Having started her career as a fourth grade teacher in a high-need government primary school in Dhaka...

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Munia Islam Mozumder
Teach For Bangladesh
Bangladesh

After studying Business Engineering, Caroline worked at Deloitte before joining the F...

After studying Business Engineering, Caroline worked at Deloitte before joining the French non-profit association IECD, where she worked on a variety of...

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Caroline de Cartier
Teach For Belgium
Belgium

Adriana Yaffar has a Master’s degree in Business Administration with honors from Mast...

Adriana Yaffar has a Master’s degree in Business Administration with honors from Masters for Development and a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science with...

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Adriana Yaffar
Enseña por Bolivia
Bolivia

Erica is the CEO and Founder of Ensina Brasil. Prior her current role, she was the In...

Erica is the CEO and Founder of Ensina Brasil. Prior her current role, she was the Innovation Manager at Mind Lab, an educational company focused on the...

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Erica Butow
Ensina Brasil
Brazil

Trayan has been with Teach For Bulgaria since the organization's founding in 2010. He...

Trayan has been with Teach For Bulgaria since the organization's founding in 2010. He was previously the Program Director, overseeing participant admissions and...

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Trayan Trayanov
Teach For Bulgaria
Bulgaria

Monirath Siv was born and raised in Cambodia by a single mother who, despite being at...

Monirath Siv was born and raised in Cambodia by a single mother who, despite being at the top of her class, was forced to withdraw from school due to financial...

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Monirath Siv
Teach For Cambodia
Cambodia

Tomás Recart began to think of education as a systemic problem while working as a civ...

Tomás Recart began to think of education as a systemic problem while working as a civil engineer for four and a half years with low-income municipalities in the...

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Tomás Recart
Enseña Chile
Chile

Qinan Liao is the CEO of Teach For China. Before he stepped into this role Qinan led ...

Qinan Liao is the CEO of Teach For China. Before he stepped into this role Qinan led Teach For China’s operations in the Guangdong region, including their...

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Qinan Liao
Teach For China
China

Ana Camila Medina is the new CEO of Enseña por Colombia. Since childhood, she has bee...

Ana Camila Medina is the new CEO of Enseña por Colombia. Since childhood, she has been passionate about justice, belonging and diversity. Ana is an alumna of...

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Ana Medina
Enseña por Colombia
Colombia

Jesper is a former member of the Social Democrat party and most recently held the pos...

Jesper is a former member of the Social Democrat party and most recently held the position of Youth Mayor of Copenhagen. His working life has revolved around...

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Jesper Christensen
Teach First Danmark
Denmark

  Fabián Vaca Haro is the CEO of Enseña Ecuador. He has a degree in Business Administ...

  Fabián Vaca Haro is the CEO of Enseña Ecuador. He has a degree in Business Administration and Marketing with a minor in Psychology from the San Francisco of...

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Fabián Vaca Haro
Enseña Ecuador
Ecuador

Annika was appointed as the CEO of Noored Kooli (Teach For Estonia) in August 2021. B...

Annika was appointed as the CEO of Noored Kooli (Teach For Estonia) in August 2021. Before joining the Noored Kooli team, she had worked and studied in various...

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Annika Küngas
Noored Kooli
Estonia

Alex Habte Chere is the CEO & Founder of Teach For Ethiopia, which he has been de...

Alex Habte Chere is the CEO & Founder of Teach For Ethiopia, which he has been developing since 2018. The turning point in his journey came when he was invited...

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Alex H. Chere
Teach For Ethiopia
Ethiopia

Nayla holds an engineering degree from McGill University and an MBA from HEC and has ...

Nayla holds an engineering degree from McGill University and an MBA from HEC and has more than 20 years of experience in diverse organizations (private sector...

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Nayla Ibrahim
Le Choix de l'école
France

Sonja Köpke, born in Berlin, joined Teach First Deutschland in 2012 after working tog...

Sonja Köpke, born in Berlin, joined Teach First Deutschland in 2012 after working together with a Teach First Deutschland fellow as a teacher. He inspired her...

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Sonja Köpke
Teach First Deutschland
Germany

Victor is a recognized educator with 12 years of experience in the public and private...

Victor is a recognized educator with 12 years of experience in the public and private sector, and at different levels of education from pre-primary to higher...

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Victor Moscoso
Enseña por Guatemala
Guatemala

Nedgine is the Co-founder and CEO of Anseye Pou Ayiti, which seeks to raise education...

Nedgine is the Co-founder and CEO of Anseye Pou Ayiti, which seeks to raise education outcomes in rural Haiti by promoting teacher excellence and student...

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Nedgine Paul Deroly
Anseye Pou Ayiti
Haiti

Shaheen Mistri is the CEO of Teach For India, and serves as one of its founding board...

Shaheen Mistri is the CEO of Teach For India, and serves as one of its founding board members.  She has earned global recognition for her dedication and...

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Shaheen Mistri
Teach For India
India

Andrea Pastorelli holds an undergraduate degree in Communications and Cultural Studie...

Andrea Pastorelli holds an undergraduate degree in Communications and Cultural Studies from  Goldsmiths College, University of London, and a Masters degree in...

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Andrea Pastorelli
Teach For Italy
Italy

Takeaki Nakahara became the CEO of Teach For Japan in October 2018. He served as a Te...

Takeaki Nakahara became the CEO of Teach For Japan in October 2018. He served as a Teach For Japan fellow at an elementary school in Nara city, Japan from 2015...

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Takeaki Nakahara
Teach For Japan
Japan

Gulnara Salmenova, the Founder and CEO of Teach For Qazaqstan, is an exceptional indi...

Gulnara Salmenova, the Founder and CEO of Teach For Qazaqstan, is an exceptional individual who embodies the transformative power of education. With a lineage...

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Gulnara Salmenova
Teach For Qazaqstan
Kazakhstan

Yukabeth Kidenda is the Co-founder and CEO of Teach for Kenya. Growing up in a middle...

Yukabeth Kidenda is the Co-founder and CEO of Teach for Kenya. Growing up in a middle class Kenyan home, Yukabeth was greatly influenced by her grandfather and...

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Yukabeth Kidenda
Teach For Kenya
Kenya

Ramona is a 2013 Iespējamā misija graduate. She joined Iespējamā misija as a project ...

Ramona is a 2013 Iespējamā misija graduate. She joined Iespējamā misija as a project manager in January 2021 and was appointed CEO in January 2022. In addition...

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Ramona Urtane
Iespējamā Misija
Latvia

Janine joined Teach For Lebanon as Executive Director in May 2023. She has 20 years o...

Janine joined Teach For Lebanon as Executive Director in May 2023. She has 20 years of experience working with NGOs in the Middle East and has lived in Lebanon...

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Janine Weber-el Meouchy
Teach For Lebanon
Lebanon

Alicia-Ann brings to Teach For Liberia a combined two decades of project management a...

Alicia-Ann brings to Teach For Liberia a combined two decades of project management and nonprofit administration experience. For the last 12 years Alicia-Ann...

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Alicia-Ann Caesar
Teach For Liberia
Liberia

Agnė Motiejūnė is the CEO of Renkuosi Mokyti! and an alumna of the program. As a part...

Agnė Motiejūnė is the CEO of Renkuosi Mokyti! and an alumna of the program. As a participant, she taught geography, sociology, and economics and served as a...

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Agnė Motiejūnė
Renkuosi Mokyti!
Lithuania

Chan Soon Seng joined the inaugural Teach For Malaysia Cohort in 2012, and like many ...

Chan Soon Seng joined the inaugural Teach For Malaysia Cohort in 2012, and like many other fellows and alumni, the experience had a profound impact on his...

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Chan Soon Seng
Teach For Malaysia
Malaysia

Juan Manuel Gonzalez is the CEO of Enseña por México. Juan Manuel has more than 10 ye...

Juan Manuel Gonzalez is the CEO of Enseña por México. Juan Manuel has more than 10 years of experience managing international projects in the public and private...

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Juan Manuel Gonzalez
Enseña por México
Mexico

Gantushig Gankhuyag, or simply Tushig, is a Co-founder and CEO of Teach for Mongolia....

Gantushig Gankhuyag, or simply Tushig, is a Co-founder and CEO of Teach for Mongolia. He is an avid supporter of volunteerism, education, and youth development...

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Gantushig Gankhuyag
Teach for Mongolia
Mongolia

Mohamed El Idrissi is the Founder and CEO of Teach For Morocco. His extensive experie...

Mohamed El Idrissi is the Founder and CEO of Teach For Morocco. His extensive experience in governance, social work, human resource management, business...

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Mohamed El Idrissi
Teach For Morocco
Morocco

Swastika Shrestha is the Co-founder and CEO at Teach For Nepal, a movement of outstan...

Swastika Shrestha is the Co-founder and CEO at Teach For Nepal, a movement of outstanding university graduates and young professionals who are committed to...

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Swastika Shrestha
Teach For Nepal
Nepal

Michelle is a Polynesian educator, theatre-maker, mother and former high school dropo...

Michelle is a Polynesian educator, theatre-maker, mother and former high school dropout. She serves as interim CEO|Kaitiaki, and also Kāuru Kura|Head of School...

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Michelle Johansson
Ako Mātātupu: Teach First NZ
New Zealand

Folawe Omikunle graduated from Babcock University in 2008 with a Bachelor’s Degree in...

Folawe Omikunle graduated from Babcock University in 2008 with a Bachelor’s Degree in International Law and Diplomacy. Upon completion of her Master’s degree at...

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Folawe Omikunle
Teach For Nigeria
Nigeria

Khadija is the Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Teach For Pakistan, a national ...

Khadija is the Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Teach For Pakistan, a national non-profit company that nurtures leadership to end educational inequity...

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Khadija Shahper Baktiar
Teach For Pakistan
Pakistan

Jihad Hassan Shojaeha is a highly accomplished education professional with a master's...

Jihad Hassan Shojaeha is a highly accomplished education professional with a master's degree in Social Studies and a bachelor's degree in Sociology from Birzeit...

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Jihad Hassan Shojaeha
Teach For Palestine
Palestine

Lorena Valencia is a Co-founder and CEO of Enseña por Panamá. Prior to launching Ense...

Lorena Valencia is a Co-founder and CEO of Enseña por Panamá. Prior to launching Enseña por Panamá, Lorena headed the Panama chapter of Learning Enterprises...

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Lorena Valencia
Enseña por Panamá
Panama

Claudia strongly believes in the power of education to create a just society that pro...

Claudia strongly believes in the power of education to create a just society that provides equal access to opportunities for everyone.   When she arrived at...

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Claudia González
Enseña por Paraguay
Paraguay

Franco Mosso is the co-founder and CEO of Enseña Perú. An economist who graduated fro...

Franco Mosso is the co-founder and CEO of Enseña Perú. An economist who graduated from Peru’s Universidad de la Pacífico, he also serves as a leadership...

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Franco Mosso
Enseña Perú
Peru

Mavie joined Teach for the Philippines in 2016 and built the organization’s Data &amp...

Mavie joined Teach for the Philippines in 2016 and built the organization’s Data & Impact Assessment team from the ground up, leading successful internal and...

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Mavie Almeda Ungco
Teach for the Philippines
Philippines

Katarzyna Nabrdalik is the CEO of the Teach for Poland Foundation. Throughout her car...

Katarzyna Nabrdalik is the CEO of the Teach for Poland Foundation. Throughout her career, she has been dedicated to the third sector, where she cultivated a...

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Katarzyna Nabrdalik
Teach for Poland
Poland

Pedro Almeida has a degree in Electro-technical Engineering from the Faculty of Engin...

Pedro Almeida has a degree in Electro-technical Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto. After working as a Business Analyst in...

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Pedro Almeida
Teach For Portugal
Portugal

Nasser Yousef Al Jaber graduated from Georgetown University for Foreign Service in 20...

Nasser Yousef Al Jaber graduated from Georgetown University for Foreign Service in 2010 with a Bachelors Degree in International Politics and a Certificate in...

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Nasser Al-Jaber
Teach For Qatar
Qatar

Having held several senior and leadership roles throughout a career spanning over two...

Having held several senior and leadership roles throughout a career spanning over two decades in the corporate world, Iulia is a fervent supporter of self...

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Iulia Pielmus
Teach For Romania
Romania

Raby Gueye is the founder and CEO of Teach For Senegal, which seeks to raise educatio...

Raby Gueye is the founder and CEO of Teach For Senegal, which seeks to raise educational outcomes in Senegal so that one day every Senegalese child feels seen...

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Raby Gueye
Teach For Senegal
Senegal

Teach For Sierra Leone is driven by the dynamic leadership of Josephine Saidu. She to...

Teach For Sierra Leone is driven by the dynamic leadership of Josephine Saidu. She took inspiration for this venture from growing up in a teacher household...

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Josephine Saidu
Teach For Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone

Stanislav Boledovič is a social entrepreneur and educator working to make significant...

Stanislav Boledovič is a social entrepreneur and educator working to make significant improvement in the education system in Slovakia. Prior to founding Teach...

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Stanislav Boledovič
Teach For Slovakia
Slovakia (Slovak Republic)

David Oliphant is the Co-founder and CEO of Teach the Nation (TTN). David was born in...

David Oliphant is the Co-founder and CEO of Teach the Nation (TTN). David was born in Cape Town, South Africa during the apartheid regime and has always been...

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David Oliphant
Teach The Nation
South Africa

Beatriz began her career as an auditor at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Spain before movi...

Beatriz began her career as an auditor at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Spain before moving to the Tax department and specializing in financial services. In 1998...

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Beatriz Morilla
Empieza por Educar
Spain

Ida is the CEO for Teach for Sweden and, since 2010, has been the CEO for the non-pro...

Ida is the CEO for Teach for Sweden and, since 2010, has been the CEO for the non-profit organization Rektorsakademien, a leading professional network for...

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Ida Karlberg Gidlund
Teach For Sweden
Sweden

Vichitapol is the CEO and Founder of Teach For Thailand. His inspiration to launch th...

Vichitapol is the CEO and Founder of Teach For Thailand. His inspiration to launch the organization stemmed from the opportunities available to him as a result...

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Vichitapol Pholpoke
Teach For Thailand
Thailand

Prior to co-founding Teach For Uganda, CEO James Kassaga Arinaitwe gained eight years...

Prior to co-founding Teach For Uganda, CEO James Kassaga Arinaitwe gained eight years of international development experience working with The Carter Center in...

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James Kassaga Arinaitwe
Teach For Uganda
Uganda

Teach For Uganda’s Co-founder and Chief of Programs, Charlotte I. Nsengiyumva, has ov...

Teach For Uganda’s Co-founder and Chief of Programs, Charlotte I. Nsengiyumva, has over five years of youth development experience. Upon completing university...

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Charlotte Nsengiyumva
Teach For Uganda
Uganda

Oksana’s decision to join Teach For Ukraine comes from her personal story. She was bo...

Oksana’s decision to join Teach For Ukraine comes from her personal story. She was born in a small Ukrainian town and went to a regular secondary school. Having...

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Oksana Matiiash
Teach For Ukraine
Ukraine

Prior to becoming CEO of Teach First, Russell was General Secretary of the National A...

Prior to becoming CEO of Teach First, Russell was General Secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) in the United Kingdom from 2010-2017...

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Russell Hobby
Teach First
United Kingdom

Elisa’s passion for educational equity comes from personal experience. Elisa grew up ...

Elisa’s passion for educational equity comes from personal experience. Elisa grew up in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas and developed a deep commitment to...

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Elisa Villanueva Beard
Teach For America
United States

Sofía Puig transitioned to lead Enseña Uruguay as their Executive Director in 2018. P...

Sofía Puig transitioned to lead Enseña Uruguay as their Executive Director in 2018. Prior to this, Sofía had joined the program as a Fellow in 2016, teaching...

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Sofia Puig
Enseña Uruguay
Uruguay

Prior to being appointed as the CEO of Teach For Vietnam, Trang Nguyen joined the tea...

Prior to being appointed as the CEO of Teach For Vietnam, Trang Nguyen joined the team to lead the Development and Alumni Impact department in 2018. In her...

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Trang Nguyen
Teach For Viet Nam
Vietnam

Dr. Miriam Farai Siwela (née Jabangwe) is the CEO and Co-founder of Teach For Zimbabw...

Dr. Miriam Farai Siwela (née Jabangwe) is the CEO and Co-founder of Teach For Zimbabwe. Miriam’s formative years were characterized by extreme poverty, as she...

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Dr. Miriam Farai Siwela
Teach For Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe