Adam Turney currently serves as Interim Vice President and Senior Technical Advisor for World Education’s Africa Division. He is also involved as an EdTech Center lead for World Education’s international work. Adam’s work focuses primarily on programming in Mozambique, and extends to new business efforts leveraging technology and digital access for improved learning outcomes across the continent. Before joining World Education in 2014, he spent more than eight years teaching in the U.S., South Korea, and Mozambique. Adam has a BA from Michigan State University and an Ed.M. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education International Education Policy program.

Christine Bailey brings over a decade of international development experience, delivering programming in more than 25 countries in Africa, Asia and Central and South America. She has worked extensively developing and implementing communications for behavior change programs tackling Ebola, WASH, and maternal and child health issues, among others. Since 2015, she has worked with World Education’s Bantwana Initiative, providing leadership and program management, team building, and new business development growth, with emergent expertise in child protection, GBV, VAC/CSA, AGYW, norms change and digital solutions sub-sectors. Ms. Bailey supports Bantwana’s Eswatini and Uganda portfolios. She holds dual Masters Degrees from Ohio University and Columbia University.

As Senior Adviser of WEI’s Asia Division, Estelle Day oversees WEI’s Cambodia portfolio, as well as new business development work for the Division as a whole.  She leads Cambodia-specific and global projects focused on early-grade reading, book supply chain; education systems strengthening; EdTech; teacher training, and youth development. Based out of World Education’s head office since 2005, she spent the six years before that working in Cambodia, leading innovative girls’ education interventions. Experienced in corporate social investment partnerships, from 2010-2015, Ms. Day was the Director of WEI’s flagship positive youth development initiative that reached 32,000 youth through corporate partnership across 8 countries to improve work readiness and civic engagement, and reduce unsafe migration. At WEI for 20 years, and with 25 years in the international education sector in total, she has overseen programs in 19 countries. She brings that experience to WEI’s EdTech Center as a lead for World Education’s international work. Estelle has a first-class BA from Oxford University and an MEd from Harvard University.

Sarah French is a Senior Program Officer for World Education’s Asia and Special Projects division and serves as an EdTech Center Lead. She has supported a wide variety of programs and initiatives, including those related to digital case management, e-learning, digital literacy, social and behavioral change communication, and teacher professional development. Prior to joining World Education, she spent six years teaching both domestically and internationally. She has an MA in International Educational Development from Teachers College, Columbia University and is currently pursuing an M.Ed. in Measurement, Evaluation, Statistics, and Assessment from the University of Illinois-Chicago.

Yuri Machkasov works as a New Business Development Specialist for World Education’s Africa Division and serves as an EdTech Center lead. Yuri’s focus is on program management, finance, operations, and program design, having supported a wide range of programming and new business development efforts across multiple donors (including USAID, PEPFAR, FCDO, World Bank, Peace Corps, U.S. State Department, and foundations). Before joining World Education, Yuri had a background in teaching, having taught language and digital literacy courses both in the United States and internationally beginning in 2009. Yuri has a double BA in Global Business and Spanish from the University of Minnesota Morris.