Asian Studies: Opening Doors to Contextualized Social Entrepreneurship
Thursday, April 14th – Presented by the Department of Asian Studies
Sajida Hassan Shroff is an international educationist with 18 years of experience that bridges the worlds of education and business. She is the President and Principal Consultant for EdWorx – a strategic consulting practice that works with government, corporate, educational and non-profit entities in Asia, East and North Africa, the UK, Europe, North America, and the Middle East striving to ensure that educational systems enable quality education and access. Her commitment to contextualizing education so it has positive impact on the communities served is unmatched and has been recognized as such including commendations from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (USA) and the UAE Ministry of Higher Education. This lecture will focus on the impact of Asian Studies on Sajida’s life, detailing how a degree of passion opened doors to learning, understanding and practice that have not only broadened her social and cultural understanding of the world but also impacted her professional experiences.
Sajida Hassan Shroff
Managing Director, Altamont Group
Sajida Hassan Shroff is an international educational strategist with over 20 years’ experience in ECE, K-12, tertiary and vocational education. She is passionate about integrating strategic business practices in knowledge organizations; and is committed to contextualizing education so it has positive impact on communities served.
Sajida is Managing Director of Altamont Group, a strategic advisory focused on the education sector & supporting investor, government and civil society entities. Her focus areas include advising educational investors, quality assurance, programme set up, new school/ college set up achieving above target ROIs. She also oversees Alta College Coach which offers guidance to select students and their families to help them choose the college and graduate school that is right for them. Sajida has worked across five continents including experiences with UNESCO, OECD, AT Kearney, Deloitte, McKinsey, CIDA, Aga Khan Development Network, US Department of Health & Human Services, WHO, and NATO, along with academic institutions such as UCL, IOE, Cambridge, OISE, AUD, Abu Dhabi University, HCT, Waterloo, Emory, Harvard and Columbia.
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