Katy Webley is Head of Education for Save the Children UK, and a member of the Policy Senior Leadership Team.  Katy leads the development, implementation, monitoring and assessment of the organisation’s global education strategy – covering SC UK’s education work in both development and emergency settings, as well as work in policy, campaigns, and media.  This involves working closely with other sectors and departments within SC UK, across the SC Alliance of 27 members and 140 countries, and with multiple-partner agencies. 

Katy previously worked as an Education Adviser for Save the Children from 2003-2005.  Earlier work includes consultancies in Nepal, Mali and Iraq, two years in South Sudan as Education Manager, three years in Eritrea as a teacher trainer with the Ministry of Education, and as a primary-school teacher in the UK.

Katy has been heavily involved in Rewrite the Future, the SC Alliance’s first global campaign, focused on education for children affected by conflict.  Katy also represents the SC Alliance in its co-leadership, with UNICEF, of the global education cluster.  The global cluster leads are accountable for securing system-wide preparedness and technical capacity to respond to humanitarian emergencies, and for securing greater predictability and more effective inter-agency responses in education. 

Katy holds an M.Ed in Education and Development from the University of Bristol (with a research focus on ethnic minorities, language and teacher training), a Post-Graduate Certificate in Primary Education from Cambridge University and a B.Sc. Joint Honours in Psychology and Sociology from Southampton University.