📅 Date: Tuesday 28 January 2025
⏰ Time: 9am EST | 2 pm GMT | 5 pm Doha (AST)
📍 Location: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xiqtXvDY0Q

Speakers

Margret Sinclair
Co-Convenor, NISSEM

Margaret Sinclair is an education planner who has focused on ‘education in emergencies’ and ‘conflict-sensitive’ education policies since 1987, with UNHCR including as chief of its Education Unit. During a later consultancy with UNESCO she helped establish the Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE). She was a technical adviser with Education Above All from 2010 to 2017, helping establish its Protecting Education in Insecurity and Conflict section, of which she was also interim director (2012-2014), as well as the Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack (GCPEA). After leaving EAA, she spearheaded the establishment in 2018 of Networking to Integrate SDG 4.7 and Social and Emotional Learning into Education Materials (NISSEM), a group which emerged from an EAA-USAID sponsored workshop. She recently co-authored a brief on education for conflict resolution in schools, for a forthcoming edition of NISSEM Global Briefs which is focused on the 2023 UNESCO Recommendation on Education for Peace, Human Rights and Sustainable Development.

Dr Aqeela A. Datoo, PhD
Head of Global Partnerships, Education

Dr Aqeela A. Datoo is the Head of Global Partnerships, Education, at the Aga Khan Foundation, where she leads strategic donor relations and multi-country education initiatives. With over a decade of experience spanning East Africa, Central, and South Asia, Dr. Datoo specializes in education program design, post-conflict education, and partnerships with corporations, foundations, and multilateral organizations. Her doctoral research at the University of Oxford focused on teacher responses to ethnic conflict in Kenya. Dr. Datoo is also a published author on school leadership in post-conflict societies.

Anfal Saqib
Education Specialist, Education Cannot Wait (ECW)

Anfal leads oversees ECW’s First Emergency Response investment window and is also ECW’s lead on Anticipatory Action. She is an international education expert with substantial experience of fragile and conflict-affected contexts. Anfal has worked on advocacy and coordination in Ghana, in Pakistan, where she managed a large scale innovation programme and as Head of Education in the British Embassy, Lebanon, where she supported the response to the Syria crisis. She has previously spent time on secondment to Price Waterhouse Coopers, as Senior Portfolio Lead for the Girls Education Challenge, with high level oversight of projects in a number of conflict-affected countries, including Afghanistan and Somalia. Anfal has also worked for the UK government on domestic education policy, including the London Challenge reforms to London schools.