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Brink foundation

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  • Lea is an innovation strategist and co-founder of Brink. She brings strategic guidance, supports teams in delivering results, and helps navigate complex challenges to ensure education programmes achieve impact at scale.

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  • James makes sure everything runs smoothly behind the scenes, supporting teams so they can do their best work and thrive. He’s passionate about creating high-performing teams that are not just productive but genuinely happy across cultures and borders.

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  • Catherine ensures grantees have a seamless onboarding and grant experience, guiding them every step of the way and making sure they feel supported, informed, and empowered to succeed.

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  • Flic coordinates technical support and facilitates cohort learning events, helping you access the grantees  guidance and resources necessary to succeed.

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What Works Hub for Global Education

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  • Michelle conducts research and leads innovative evidence synthesis and translation efforts to make research on improving foundational learning actionable for policymakers and practitioners. 

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  • Noam is the Academic Director of the What Works Hub for Global Education. His interests focus on bridging the gap between evidence on ‘what works’ to enable young people to thrive and translation into scaled intervention and policy.

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  • Yue-Yi Hwa is a Senior Synthesis Manager on the evidence translation and synthesis team at the What Works Hub for Global Education.Yue-Yi’s research is on improving implementation and children’s learning in education systems, with particular interests in teacher motivation, management, professional norms, and sociocultural context.

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  • Sharnic leads TA efforts on measurement and conducting  right-fit rigorous evidence with the What Works Hub for Global Education. Sharnic’s research centers on information design, exploring how carefully crafted informational interventions influence decision-making and behaviour. 

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  • Rebecca Trupin is a Senior Policy Manager at the What Works Hub for Global Education, where she helps to build out the team’s policy engagement and government support function, with a focus on using evidence for bold, large-scale education reform. Rebecca’s research is on how public sector capacity to achieve important societal aspirations can be nurtured and built, with particular interests in organisational practices and systems that foster this growth.

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  • Guillermo is a Research Manager at the What Works Hub for Global Education’s central team in Oxford, where he focuses on Pillar 3: Implementation Science.Guillermo’s research focuses on evidence-based policymaking, education system reform, and the use of implementation science to bridge the gap between research and practice in order to improve student outcomes worldwide.

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