Simon Wanda

Kenya

African Studies (MSc), 2014
St Anne's College, Oxford

Funding: Louis Dreyfus

Simon graduated with an  MSc in African Studies in 2014. He also has a first class honours degree from Kenyatta University, Kenya.

Simon is currently an Operations Officer at the World Bank working on IFC's climate business. Before this he was a Programme Specialist at the UNESCO Headquarters, Paris France Simon was an Associate Project Officer on their Teacher Training in Support of Global Citizenship Education (GCED) and then Programme Officer on Climate Change.

He previously managed various large projects funded by DFiD, which focused on education in Africa with a specific focus on transformative pedagogies in Higher Education in Africa. He has experience in designing, managing, monitoring and evaluating education projects and programmes in partnership with universities, schools and international development agencies. His areas of expertise are online education, education in Africa, education for sustainable development and global citizenship education.