Dr. Andrew (Andy) Cunningham is the Global Lead for Education at the Aga Khan Foundation, an agency of the Aga Khan Development Network, based at its headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. AKF works to transform education systems by increasing levels of educational access, quality, and equity for the most marginalized learners through catalytic partnerships and programmes across Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East.

Dr. Cunningham graduated from Duke University with a double major in International Comparative Studies and Chinese and received his Masters and DPhil in Comparative International Education at Oxford University with distinction. Prior to AKF, he worked with UNICEF, the World Bank, World Learning, the Education Above All Foundation and as co-founder of the Women’s Institute for Secondary Education and Research (WISER), the first girls’ secondary boarding school in rural Muhuru Bay, Kenya. He is the recipient of the Marshall, Truman and Robertson Scholarships and is a board member for UNESCO’s Greening Education Partnership, Teachers for the Planet, Schools2030 and the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) representing private foundations and philanthropies.