Ann Finlayson
Ann Finlayson, commissioner for Education, has worked in the environmental field for nearly 30 years, initially in forestry and micro-climate research in upland Britain. After a stint as a countryside ranger in Scotland, she began travelling the world teaching, facilitating and consulting in places such as Papua New Guinea, Australia and Canada.
This included: managing environmental education programs; running conferences and workshops; training teachers, NGO staff and interpreters; evaluating large regional programs (British Columbia and Wisconsin); conducting strategic/operational planning for NGO's; developing resources for schools, communities and tourism sectors including designing award-winning training materials.
On returning to the UK, she began work for WWF-UK as Professional Development Officer bringing together her experience of evaluation, learning methodologies, education for sustainable development, facilitation and adult learning. Her eight years in the classroom were crucial to this. She was responsible for developing the online approaches to workshops, discussions and networks. She then became the WWF-UK Head of the Social Change department in 2002 taking responsibility for driving forward strategy development in 'Learning for Sustainability' in the education sector, local government, community and business sectors both in the UK and overseas.
She brings to the SDC Education Commissioner post a working knowledge of formal, informal and non-formal education, a broad global perspective on education and has taught everyone from 3 year olds to 70 year olds. She is passionate about the role of learning in sustainability and for it to be about real people, real opportunities and real responsibilities.
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Tutor: London South Bank University
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