OLE Expands Team with Key Appointments
OLE has been adding depth to its organization with key appointments to its board, program leadership, and financial management. Recently joining the OLE team are:
- World Bank Senior Education Specialist Michael Crawford (at right) is the newest member of OLE’s eight-member board. Crawford is a key figure in the World Bank’s Education Department, in the Latin America and Caribbean Vice Presidency.
- Jeff Kerzner is now a senior program officer at OLE responsible for developing new international programs, in particular, a new initiative to provide quality basic education for children in Haiti’s internal refugee camps. Prior to joining OLE, he spent nearly five years in Haiti, serving as chief operating officer at a Haitian telecommunications firm, as country director of an NGO focused on economic growth and job creation, and as a consultant evaluating the country’s vocational training.
- David Levenson has joined as OLE’s chief financial officer, secretary and treasurer. Levenson has a long history of working with social benefit organizations in a variety of positions.
- Additionally, Senior Program Officer Shannon Taylor has recently been named project manager of OLE’s programs in Namibia. She is a graduate student at Brandeis University focused on the impact of information and communications technologies on social and economic development and has worked in Namibia for several years.
Read about the whole team here.
