
Host: Edward Lawless
Executive Director, Learning & Innovation, The Qatar Foundation
Edward’s career as an educator has spanned four decades, four continents and multiple curricula in state and independent schools around the world. In his current role as AISL Academy’s Director of Professional Learning, Edward builds partnerships with leading global education institutions and specialists to provide AISL educators with high-quality opportunities to learn, share and grow as professionals under online, face to face and blended conditions. He has served as Head of Professional Development for the International Baccalaureate’s Asia Pacific Region and was the founding Principal for Pamoja Education, an Oxford-based EdTech organisation responsible for developing and delivering IB-approved online Diploma Programme courses to students around the world. Prior to joining AISL, Edward founded The Centre for Innovation (CFI), a Tokyo-based not-for-profit organisation dedicated to providing a gateway to global education innovation in Japan and served as a member of the Japanese Ministry’s Consortium for the Promotion of IB Education in Japan.
