John Rendel

Founder and CEO of PEAS – Promoting Equality in African Schools

John Rendel is the founder and CEO of PEAS, a rapidly growing and multiple award winning new social enterprise that widens access to secondary education inAfrica. John studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at New College, Oxford where he was picked out as a FreshMinds ‘One to Watch’. A trip during a university vacation to East Africa led John to found a low-fee, not-for-profit secondary school in Uganda. The success of that school led to the development of PEAS’s ‘SmartAid’ approach.

After graduating, John joined the Teach First programme and taught secondary school mathematics in Camberwell,Londonfor two years. In the summer of 2006, John left the classroom and began working full time on growing PEAS. John has gone on to win the Teach First Ambassador Award, an Unltd Social Enterprise Award, to become a member of the Courvoisier Future 500 and the Rockefeller Top One Hundred Next Century Innovators. In 2013, PEAS won the UK Charity Awards and the WISE Global Innovation Awards. From February 2014, PEAS will be educating 1% of all secondary school students inUganda.

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