Nadya Karim-Shaw is a Senior Technical Advisor who joined Creative’s Education Division in early 2022. She has 20-plus years of international development experience at the Aga Khan Foundation, Education Development Center, World Learning and PricewaterhouseCoopers. Her focus areas include blended learning, teacher professional development, early grades literacy and numeracy, accelerated learning programs for out-of-school girls/youth and workforce development.
As Project Director for the dot-EDU Technology Tools for Teaching and Training (T4) activity in India, Nadya oversaw the design and implementation of an interactive audio, video and computer-based series that reached nearly 40 million students and 200,000 teachers across nine states. She also designed and led the MEGA-SKY India project, which was recognized with an award by the ILO. Passionate about reading, Nadya has mentored various startups and worked closely with corporate philanthropists on public-private partnerships to expand the availability of diverse, leveled, fiction and non-fiction reading materials – including co-creating a series of comic books titledSheeba and the Private Detectives.
Nadya has a degree in Environmental Science and Geography from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Fluent in Urdu, spoken Hindi and English, Nadya is perennially on the lookout to practice her rudimentary French.