Sam Awuku

Dr. Sam Awuku is the Project Lead of the Education Commission’s Innovative Pedagogies Project (IPP) and brings to the role over 30 years of working experience in the education and development sectors across sub-Saharan Africa, the United Kingdom, and Poland. Since 2015, Sam has been supporting Ghana’s Ministry of Education through T-TEL as a Key Adviser for Policy, Leadership, Institutional Development, ICT, and Communications that has positioned him to provide strategic advice to the Ministry and its agencies on school curriculum and related policies, leadership in teacher education institutions, emergency remote teaching and learning, and partnerships with external organizations like the Association for the Development Education in Africa (ADEA). Sam was the Global Director for the Centre for Development and Public Engagement with the African Institute for Mathematical Science – Next Einstein Initiative (AIMS-NEI) Foundation during which he led the Centre’s development efforts of the Foundation engaging with country ministers and presidents leading to the establishment of AIMS centres in Tanzania and Rwanda. As a consultant, Sam has provided high-level strategic positioning services to the Education Development Trust, Right to Play, ImpactEd International, and the Research Triangle Institute (RTI) among others through TeachAid Consulting Ltd., a consultancy company that he co-founded in 2009.

Sam is the Board President for the Ghana Society for Education Technology and a government nominee on the Council of the the University of Cape Coast. He is a member of the Institute of Directors, UK. Sam holds a teachers’ certificate (mathematics teaching) with distinction and BA (Hons) in Social Science (Economics and Sociology) from the University of Cape Coast; MA in Inclusive Education from the University of Reading; MBA from Trinity College; MA in Education Programme with mathematics focus from London South Bank University; and Ph.D. in Education Technology and Development Policy from the UCL Institute of Education.