Leadership

Dr. Mmantsetsa Marope is the Executive Director of the World Heritage Group and Honorary President of the Indian Ocean Comparative Education Society. Prior to this, she was the Director of UNESCO International Bureau of Education in Geneva, Switzerland, UNESCO’s Centre of Excellence in Curriculum and Related Matters. Other prior experiences include Director positions at UNESCO headquarters in Paris including the Director of Basic to Higher Education and Learning, 10 years as a Senior Education Specialist at the World Bank, 11 years as a professor at the University of Botswana, and 2 years as the Executive Secretary for the Education Research Network for East and Southern Africa. She has given extensive consultancy and advisory services to Ministries of Education, Regional Economic Communities, the Association for the Development of Education in Africa, bilateral and multilateral development agencies, and social sciences research networks.

Dr. Marope has served on advisory boards of diverse intellectual and technical groups, including the Cambridge University’s Partnership for Education, the New York Academy of Sciences’ Global Alliance for STEM Education, the Global Education Monitoring Report, the Global Sciences of Learning Education Network, the Regional Center for Quality Education in Riyad, Saudi Arabia, and the Institute for Cultural Diplomacy in Berlin, Germany. Between 2014 and 2020, she was the Editor-in-Chief of one of the world’s prestigious journals of education, PROSPECTS: Comparative Journal of Curriculum, Learning and Assessment, as well as the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of an innovative education and learning magazine, IBE IN FOCUS. In recent years, she has gained eminence as a global thought leader on futures education and learning; the future of education and work; and futures global competences all global citizens require to thrive in the rapidly changing 21st century contexts.