John Rendel is the founder and CEO at Promoting Equality in African Schools, a rapidly growing and multiple award-winning social enterprise that widens access to secondary education in Africa. Rendel studied philosophy, politics, and economics at Oxford University, where he was picked out as “One to Watch” by FreshMinds. Rendel won the Teach First Ambassador Award and an UnLtd Social Enterprise Award, and he became a member of the Courvoisier Future 500 and the Rockefeller Top One Hundred Next Century Innovators. He is winner of the Best International Aid & Development award, overall winner at the 2013 Charity Awards, and joint winner of a 2013 WISE Award.