The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is looking for a new director of global education after Girindre Beeharry, who has led the strategy since its launch, said he will step down.
When the Gates Foundation announced in 2018 that it would invest $68 million into global education over four years, it focused on what it called “global public goods” to inform local education policy reform. For example, it supported a dashboard to deliver governments data on what is happening at the classroom level to inform their policymaking.
Over the past year, the foundation has expanded its work to more directly improve reading and math outcomes, often referred to in the global education community as foundational literacy and numeracy, or FLN. Beeharry, now an adviser to the foundation, sees an opportunity to reenergize the global education community by showing meaningful results in the next few years.