Martin Prew

Dr Martin Prew took up a visiting fellowship at the University of the Witwatersrand and set up an education development agency based in Pretoria and Uganda in October 2012. Most of his work at present is in managing large-scale programme evaluations in South Sudan and Uganda and writing projects in South Africa. After ten years of teaching and lecturing history, geography and political economy in Zimbabwe during the 1980s, he completed a masters degree at the Institute of Education in London. He settled in South Africa in late 1993 as the education director of a small NGO, Link Community Development (LCD). Over the next eight years, he helped to build it into an international education development organisation that works in seven African countries. Between 2002 and 2007, he was director of the national Department of Education, with responsibility for school management and governance, districts and school safety. He then returned to LCD for two years and later spent three years as executive director of the Centre for Education Policy Development (CEPD).