Amel Karboul Quotes

Education has been a neglected child globally; it has been seen as a national problem and has not really attracted much attention. Outside of the education bubble, I do not think that people are really aware of the true scale of the problem.

Around 330 million children are in school, but not learning. There are bodies in classrooms, but not educated minds.

We need more financial resources directed at education because we have more children, and also because 21st-century skills are more complex than anything that has been taught before. On the other side, the way that we are currently spending money as a society on education is not bringing the results we want to achieve.

Institutions…could support the development of the whole ecosystem through knowledge building or creating a taskforce with other fiduciary investors and the ecosystem of dedicated impact bond managers. They have big capacities to bring systematic change, in advocacy and conversation with governments

Leadership is about the decisions you make and the conversations you have. It is also about the time you give.

Pouring more money in a broken system does only fund more inefficiencies, because often, we don’t think and act in results and learning outcomes are results.

At the end, if you think about Africa and the Middle East, there is a huge lack of leadership. It has to be integrated with ethics. Maybe the human side of leadership is the most important piece.