Justin van Fleet

Justin van Fleet is the President of the global children's charity Theirworld and CEO of the Global Business Coalition for Education. He previously served as the Director of the International Commission on Financing Global Education and Chief of Staff to the United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education, Former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown. van Fleet was a fellow at the Brookings Institution’s Center for Universal Education in Washington, D.C. He has previously held various non-profit and academic posts, including as Deputy Chair for Education at the Clinton Global Initiative and Associate Director of the Council on Foreign Relations Center for Universal Education. He graduated with a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland in international education policy and holds a Master degree from Harvard University in the same field.