{"id":1514,"date":"2021-07-14T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-14T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carnegie25live.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=1514"},"modified":"2025-12-16T11:23:43","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T19:23:43","slug":"fred-swaniker-founder-and-ceo-of-the-african-leadership-group-joins-the-carnegie-foundation-as-a-senior-fellow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carnegiefoundation.org\/fred-swaniker-founder-and-ceo-of-the-african-leadership-group-joins-the-carnegie-foundation-as-a-senior-fellow\/","title":{"rendered":"Fred Swaniker, Founder and CEO of the African Leadership Group, Joins the Carnegie Foundation as a Senior Fellow"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-9f092ff3\">\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-f749780f\">\n\n<p>\u201cThe greatest equalizer in life is education.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching announced today that Ghanaian educational entrepreneur&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.carnegiefoundation.org\/about-us\/fellows\/fred-swaniker\/\">Fred Swaniker<\/a>&nbsp;has been appointed Senior Fellow. He is the founder and CEO of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/algroup.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">African Leadership Group<\/a>&nbsp;that is&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kcEIsbO0ivA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">developing entrepreneurial leaders<\/a>&nbsp;across the African continent. Swaniker will work with the foundation on its strategic priority to support renewal and innovation in the postsecondary sector with the goal of improving equity, social mobility, and public purpose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFred is one of Africa\u2019s educational visionaries,\u201d says Carnegie President Timothy Knowles. \u201cHe established one of the most rigorous secondary schools on the continent. He has built universities from the ground up in Mauritius, Rwanda, and Kenya, and is now scaling up a post-secondary model that aims to develop 3 million African leaders and entrepreneurs over the next decade. We can all learn from the extraordinary work he has underway.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Swaniker began his education career as headmaster of a school in Botswana that was started by his mother and became the best school in the country five years later. He went on to study economics at Macalester College in Minnesota and receive an M.B.A. at Stanford University. It was there that he developed the idea of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.africanleadershipacademy.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">African Leadership Academy<\/a>\u2014a residential college-prep boarding school that brings together students from across Africa to learn leadership and entrepreneurial skills. Swaniker then scaled up to develop a pan-African university system with campuses in Mauritius, Rwanda, and Kenya, and a goal of developing 3 million leaders for Africa by 2035. The network of universities was called \u201cthe Harvard of Africa\u201d by CNN, and Swaniker was named one of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=88cdrM5XkMM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TIME\u2019s 100<\/a>&nbsp;in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cToday, we stand at a crossroads: post-secondary education costs too much, takes too long, and does not prepare people adequately for the future of work, says Swaniker. \u201cIf any organization can apply rigorous research and networks to re-imagine a better way, it\u2019s Carnegie. Tim Knowles is committed to this better future, and I\u2019m thrilled to join him and other fellows to explore innovations and boldly venture into new territory.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAs Senior Fellow, Fred will help Carnegie understand and elevate designs for post-secondary education that are rigorous, affordable, experiential, and career aligned,\u201d says Knowles. \u201cTogether, we will explore how to build robust pathways for Black, Latinx, Indigenous, and African young people into the highest growth professional sectors.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">ABOUT CARNEGIE<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching is committed to solving long-standing inequities in educational outcomes. The Foundation addresses problems that impact large numbers of students; tests innovations on the ground; understands what works, why it works, and in what contexts; and shares what it learns for use by others. 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