Christopher Ashford, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

As the Senior Education Advisor to Microsoft’s emerging market team, Dr. Christopher Ashford has over 20 years of executive management experience, providing oversight to numerous national-scale, social impact investments with donor institutions, NGOs and industry partners across the globe. His accomplishments range from changing the landscape of education for over 5 million youth through customized education reform and applied technology in Africa, to creating entrepreneurship opportunities for 100,000 women and out-of-school children in Asia, to coordinating emergency relief assistance in education, health access, housing and legal supports for 1 million refugees effected by conflict in the Middle East. These technical experiences have positioned him as a global thought leader, business advisor, and market strategist across a variety of start-up and nationally scaled initiatives. As a field leader he has tackled some of the most intractable challenges of our time working with digital solution partners focusing on establishing innovations in basic education access, market-driven job creation, youth engagement, and host government accountability. To date, Dr. Ashford has directed over $300 Million in program assets in complex markets such as Nigeria, Ghana, Liberia, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Pakistan, and the United States.

Listed skills include Leadership, Cross Cultural Communication Skills, Capacity Development, Social Media, and 46 others.