Dr Karen Nyangara joined COL as Adviser: Gender on 6 June 2022. She has over ten years of experience in gender mainstreaming, working in the areas of higher education and school education as well as at the community level. Dr Nyangara was formerly the Director, Institute for Gender Studies at

Betty Ogange works with the Commonwealth of Learning as Education Specialist responsible for the Teacher Education initiative. Her role is to provide domain expertise to ministries, teacher education institutions and other stakeholders in Commonwealth Member States on ODL and technology-enabled learning, towards quality teacher training and professional development. Betty has

The Rt Hon Patricia Scotland QC, Secretary-General of the Commonwealth Patricia Scotland was born in Dominica and grew up in London. Aged 20 she completed her law degree, and at 21 was called to the bar. She was the first woman to be Attorney-General for England and Wales, and is

Abtar has 36 years of teaching and leadership experience in various learning institutions. She is an alumnus of University of Malaya, Syracuse University (USA) and Indiana University (USA). She was attached to the Ministry of Education (Malaysia) before she joined University of Malaya, Open University Malaysia and Hamdan Bin Mohammed

Dr. Norda Stephenson is an Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Science, Math and Technology Education at Western Washington University. Norda grew up in Jamaica, and earned her doctoral degree in Chemistry from the University of the West Indies, in 2015. Prior to transitioning to higher education, Norda taught high school

Dr. Ann Wallace is a Higher Education Management and eLearning Specialist. A career administrator, Dr. Wallace has public and private sector experience in Zambia, Zimbabwe and Barbados. Recently retired from the Sagicor Cave Hill School of Business and Management of The University of the West Indies as Academic Programme Director

PROFESSOR DR. ZORAINI WATI ABAS has been an educator most of her life. She is currently the Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academic and Educational Technology) at the Wawasan Open University in Penang, Malaysia. Previous to this, she was the Founding Director of the Center for Learning, Teaching and Curriculum Development at