James Tooley

Professor of Education Policy, Newcastle University

Professor James Tooley is Chairman and Co-Founder of Omega Schools Franchise, a chain of low-cost private schools in Ghana and Sierra Leone, and Chairman and Co-Founder of Empathy Learning Systems in India.

He is the author of The Beautiful Tree (Penguin), a best-seller in India and winner of the 2010 Sir Antony Fisher Memorial Prize, based on his ground-breaking research on private education for the poor in India, China and Africa. This research was awarded gold prize in the first International Finance Corporation/Financial Times Private Sector Development Competition, and was profiled in an American PBS documentary alongside the work of Nobel Laureate Mohammed Yunus and Hernando de Soto.

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