David Lazaro

Director of Edraak

David Lazaro is Director of Edraak at the Queen Rania Foundation, the open-education platform launched by Queen Rania in 2014 that offers hundreds of in-demand-skills courses free of charge to more than eight million Arab learners. He spent 12 years across the Middle East and North Africa managing education programs, teacher training, youth empowerment and responses to refugee situations and economic inclusion, and recently oversaw Edraak's partnership with the IHG Academy to launch a hospitality-jobs course for Jordanian youth.