Introducing team UNGEI
The UNGEI Secretariat
With strategic guidance provided by the Global Advisory and Steering Committees, the UNGEI Secretariat carries out the partnership’s day-to-day operations. Hosted by UNICEF, the Secretariat comprises a core team who together lead evidence-building, advocacy, communications, youth engagement, partnerships and many other critical areas of work.
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Amalia Anderson
Programme Associate

Simon Api Doung Yini Ziba
Education Specialist - Project Management

Zeynep Aydemir Koyuncu
Programme Manager

Jeyda Bicer
Digital Strategies Consultant

Ashlee Burnett
Learning, Research, and Creative Lead, Transform Education

Sanjita Dhanuk
Programme Associate, Gender at the Centre Initiative (GCI)

Antara Ganguli
Head of the UNGEI Secretariat

Natasha Harris-Harb
Lead, Youth Movements and Feminist Leadership
Nepali Sah
Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Consultant for Gender Transformative Education

Jennifer Thomas
Communications & Advocacy Lead

Abdoul Salam Made Toure
Education Specialist, GCI Country Support Coordinator

Jona Turalde
Community, Operations, and Resource Mobilization Lead, Transform Education

Eline Versluys
Manager Gender at the Center Initiative

Mariama Wurie
GCI Communications Lead