Niamh Whelan

Niamh holds almost a decade of experience in the education sector, working with non-profit organizations and across global curricula. Currently, Niamh is the Program Lead of the WISE Prize for Education, recently spearheading the repositioning of this program to drive innovation alongside global edupreneurs. The program, an initiative of Her Highness Sheikha Moza bint Nasser, actively addresses perennial education challenges in foundational literacies, the instruction of Arabic language, and artificial intelligence.

Niamh is an advocate for creating and generating innovative solutions to increase equity and access to education through a human-centric, contextualized lens. With initial experience as an educator, Niamh has extensive expertise in learning experience design and pedagogical practices. Niamh studied at Trinity College Dublin & holds certifications from University College Cork & Harvard Graduate School of Education.