Team & Advisory Board
Meet Our Team
At EIDU, our strength lies in the synergy between our local team in Kenya and our product team in Germany. The former are long-established managers of local operations and full of knowledge of its specific context and needs; the latter have decades of global experience in building and scaling successful organisations in impact and technology. The team is lead by our cross-country leadership team and our strategic advisors.
Our Leadership
EIDU’s Advisors
EIDU operates under a social business model that blends the strengths of the public and private sectors to deliver scalable and sustainable educational solutions.
To amplify our sustained commitment to our mission and to maximise learning impact, our board of advisors provides strategic guidance and governs all EIDU business entities. Our board is composed of recognised thought leaders and experts from the global education community.
Dr. Noam Angrist
Academic Director, What Works Hub for Global Education, University of Oxford
Dr. Noam Angrist leads the What Works Hub for Global Education at the University of Oxford and co-founded Youth Impact. He is passionate about translating rigorous evidence into scalable, impactful education and health interventions for low- and middle-income countries. He has a PhD from Oxford, and has consulted for the World Bank and FCDO Chief Economists. His interests focus on transforming the evidence on 'what works' to enable young people to thrive into scaled intervention and policy.
Dr Asyia Kazmi OBE
CEO, World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE)
Dr Asyia Kazmi, OBE is the CEO of WISE, the World Innovation Summit for Education, an organisation that is part of the Qatar Foundation. Before that, Asyia was Global Education Policy Leat at the Gates Foundation. Nearly half of Asyia’s 30-year career in education was spent as a mathematics teacher, subject leader and advisor. Before joining Gates Foundation, Asyia was a management consultant in PwC leading the Girls’ Education Challenge, a $1bn fund set up by the UK to support the education of 1.5 million girls in 17 countries. Asyia has worked in three UK Government departments. Asyia has a Masters in Applied Mathematics from Imperial College London and a Doctorate in Education on teaching and learning mathematics from Institute of Education, University College London (2020). She also has a PGCE in Leadership development and educational consulting, and a PGCE in mathematics teaching. Asyia was awarded an OBE in the Queen’s 2022 New Year’s Honours list for services to education, particularly girls’ education. She is a mother to two boys.
Dr Kwame Akyeampong
Professor of International Education and Development, Open University, UK
Prof. Kwame Akyeampong directs the Centre for the Study of Global Development at the Open University. With over 30 years’ experience, he has held roles at universities in Ghana, Japan, and the USA, and was a Senior Policy Analyst at UNESCO. He co-chairs GEEAP and serves on multiple education boards. His research challenges deficit-based views of Africa’s learning crisis and promotes inclusive, context-sensitive solutions. His upcoming book critiques global education narratives.
Olatunde Adekola
Former Senior Education Specialist at World Bank Group
Olatunde Adekola is a former senior education specialist, working at the World Bank for over 20 years in the Africa Region, based in the Nigeria. He has been Task Team Leader of the various projects including Second Primary Education Project, State Education Sector Project and currently, Lagos State Secondary Education Project which has been selected for Africa VPU Team Award for Technical-Vocational Education Public-Private Partnerships in Lagos, Nigeria. Olatunde has worked as an academic in various universities and government before joining the Bank and is now actively involved in Basic and Secondary Education, Science and Technical Education, Skills and Youth Empowerment, and Early Childhood and Care Development Program in Nigeria. He has also contributed to many books and published a substantial number of articles in professional and international journals.
Dr. Ig Ibert Bittencourt
Visiting Scholar, Harvard Graduate School of Education and Associate Professor, Federal University of Alagoas; Co-Founder Center of Excellence for Social Technologies
Dr. Ig Ibert Bittencourt, Ph.D., is a Visiting Scholar at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and an Associate Professor at the Federal University of Alagoas (Brazil). He completed his Ph.D. in Computer Science at the Federal University of Campina Grande and his Post-Doctoral research at the University of Campinas. Dr. Bittencourt is also the Co-Founder of the Center of Excellence for Social Technologies (Núcleo de Excelência em Tecnologias Sociais) and serves as a Senior Advisor to the Brazilian government. Dr. Bittencourt has co-founded several edtech startups, significantly impacting Brazil's educational landscape. His contributions have earned him the Brazilian National Order of Educational Merit and the IEEE TCLT Early Career Researcher Award.
Prof. Christian Kroll, PhD
Professor of Sustainability and ESG Advisor, IU International University of Applied Sciences
Prof. Christian Kroll directs the Sustainable Management program at Germany's largest university, and he advises companies worldwide on sustainability and ESG. Holding a PhD from LSE, he has published widely on sustainability, and he is the inventor of the first measurement tool for the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Prof. Kroll is deeply passionate about innovations in education and inspiring the next generation.
Together, We Make a Difference
EIDU’s mission is driven by a diverse team across our two offices in Berlin and Nairobi, comprising around 100 people from over 10 different countries in Africa, Europe, North and South America. Want to learn more – or are you interested in working with? Explore open positions and our unique culture.
Kenya
Nairobi Office
Westpark Towers
Mpesi Lane
Westlands Nairobi, Kenya
Germany
Berlin Office
Am Lustgarten
Portal 12
10178 Berlin, Germany
