GLP Expertise:
Education, Development, and Technology

GLP Senior Technical Advisers are international education and technology experts.  Supplementing the core GLP staff with years of experience, our advisers leverage past investments in education through collaboration technologies and a robust alliance of educators and education stakeholders.  In all of our work, our Senior Technical Advisers offer context specific, well- tested guidelines to create demand- driven, appropriate solutions that empower educators by connecting them to resources, latest thinking, useful technology, a community of education champions, and one another.

Alexandra Draxler

GLP Senior Technical Adviser

Alexandra Draxler works with the GLP team on content development, partnerships, monitoring and evaluation, and writing and editing. She is an education specialist who worked and wrote for UNESCO and its International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP) for many years on development cooperation policy and methods, education technologies, education sector planning and evaluation, and HIV and AIDS prevention education.

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Buff Mackenzie

CED Senior Fellow

Buff Mackenzie, a Senior Fellow at GLP’s alliance partner, the Committee for Economic Development (www.ced.org), works on outreach and partnership development for GLP.  He is currently expanding education alliances with civil society, teacher unions and higher education in Africa with a focus on bringing the voice, knowledge and problem-solving of the private sector to country education challenges. As originator of the Global Learning Portal teacher network concept, Buff played a similar support role with GLP when he served as an education advisor to USAID from 2003 to 2009.

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