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Fred Swaniker (born 1976) is a Ghanaian serial entrepreneur and leadership development expert, focused on supporting individuals to achieve their goals. Swaniker recognized the importance of leadership and education while serving as the headmaster of a secondary school founded by his mother at the age of 17.
In 2021, The Luminos Fund was the winner of the University of Pennsylvania Lipman Family Prize. [8] The following year, the fund was awarded the 2022 Klaus J. Jacobs Best Practice Prize from the Jacobs Foundation. The award recognises companies globally for working to ensure children have access to education.
Swaniker has dedicated himself to building new programs that could develop students' unrealized talent—and, in doing so, help to drive change for their communities. Why Fred Swaniker Is All In ...
In 2006, Swaniker and Bradford were recognized by Echoing Green, who described them as two of the 15 best emerging social entrepreneurs in the world. [3] In 2007 the initial campus was confirmed, and Christopher Khaemba was announced as the inaugural Dean of the School. The current dean of African Leadership Academy is Derek Smith.
By February 2020, the Luminos Fund had provided education for 132,611 children in Ethiopia, Lebanon and Liberia, whose access had been limited due to conflict, discrimination or poverty. [33] Legatum founded the END Fund in 2012 to co-ordinate and support programmes to treat neglected tropical diseases, which affect over 1.5 billion people ...
Global Leadership Adventures was founded by Fred Swaniker as a precursor to the African Leadership Academy, based in Johannesburg, South Africa but became a separate entity in 2004. [1] The organization headquarters is currently based in San Diego, United States. GLA is a division of Terra Education, which is a certified benefit corporation (B ...
Johanna Odonkor Svanikier is the founding President and CEO of the Heritage and Cultural Society of Africa. She is also a former Ambassador of Ghana to France and Portugal, [1] as well as to the International Organisation of La Francophonie and the OECD Development Centre.
[13] [14] Legatum also became co-founders of the Freedom Fund, which it started in 2013 with Pierre Omidyar, to end global slavery labour. [15] Chandler and his partners then launched the Luminos Fund, [16] a charitable organization founded in 2016 to bring educational initiatives to third world countries. [17]