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Pr Monique Canto Sperber Dr Osama Obeidat
Head of Monitoring and Evaluation, Jordan Education Initiative, Jordan

Osama has been working with the Jordan Education Initiative (JEI) for more than two years as an education specialist and then as the head of monitoring and evaluation. He also worked with the Queen Rania Award for Excellence in Education as an assessor. He has a deep understanding of the educational system in Jordan and those of other countries as well. He worked with teachers and principals from Jordan for more than 6 years and in different capacities.

His international experience includes working for three years as an assistant to the director of the Institute for International Studies in Education at the University of Pittsburg. He was also Jordan Country Director for the Civic Education Project (a Washington-based NGO), co-designing an ICT in education policy for the government of Rwanda, and as an inspector for private schools in Abu Dhabi. Through his academic and professional journey, Osama received several scholarships, fellowships, and grants from the government of Jordan, universities in the United States, and from the EU through the TEMPUS mobility programme.

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