Stephen Haggard Email & Phone Number

London, United Kingdom

I founded Digital Learning Associates (co-founder is Adam Salkeld) in 2016 to focus on video content for education. We've since built a profitable company, a stable team of media and learning experts, a lean production model, and a global client base. The business runs out of London and Barcelona.Video is hard and expensive for the education sector to make at Netflix standards, so DLA's main business line is the “Ready to Run” catalogue for licensing video learning resources. Based on authentic graded video, this series is now the market leader in the language learning sector. Publishers and digital platforms have adopted Ready to Run as their go-to source of video-led content for over 50m learners.

London, United Kingdom

Our Global School was a charity supporting school partnerships between the global North and South. Programmes in South Africa and in The Gambia delivered partner-based cycles of teacher and curriculum development.

Nairobi Or London

Eneza Education's mission is to make 50 million people smarter. The content is: support for formal education, including access to syllabus, exercises, assessment, teachers and research in dictionaries and wikipedia. Eneza's service is delivered by SMS, android and web to over five million learners in Kenya as "Shupavu", and local brands in Ghana, Zimbabwe, Ivory Coast and Tanzania. As Africa's largest school Eneza charges users a micro-payment through their Airtime or mobile money account. Students can also earn mobile money credits for good learning. I became linked to the company at its founding, served as Chair of the Board of Directors for 3 years, and also in an Executive role guiding the company through its Series A fund raising round and its Francophone Africa expansions.

London

Kukua is an edtech venture focussed on the sub-saharan Africa market. The Sema entertainment-based learning app offers quality education to early learners in the "bottom billion". I started advising the team before launch.

London, United Kingdom

Retained as a consultant on a part-time basis to the Canadian Ed-Tech company Desire2Learn to deliver strategy, impact and market development in its EMEA territories in collaboration with partners such as UCL and University of Nottingham Trent

Board Member, leading a technology development for this company, in partnership with London Film Museum and funded by Technology Strategy Board. The project built innovative interfaces for complex data environments, based on animated characters as a GUI for data algorithms.

In-house consultant developing a range of interactive & new media strategies and products with educational themes. Clients include Cambridge University, University of London, UfI, HEFCE and more.

Executive Producer delivering the BBC's relationship with the Open University during a cycle of intense change, as the model shifted from analogue to partner-based digital delivery

Head of Department, Board Member

Editor of the Day on the BBC's flagship news analysis programme, driving a team in a complex and pressured environment

Series producer of several peak time BBC 2 brands in history/factual area for this specialised Independent Production company. Series include Leviathan with Mark Urban, and Balderdash with Victoria Coren

Staff producer, making programmes on the award-winning History strand

Producer, Business Programmes. Three series of Answering Back, Two Series of Goldring Audit, and Shell Prize Winning Doc "Kamikaze Cure"

Editor for the publications unit, including titles such as "The World in...”, Intelligence Unit Reports, and also a regular freelance writer for the Magazine

Master'S Degree, Area Studies, Distinction

Ma, English

Ma, South Asia Area Studies