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Mission, Vision and Purpose

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Our Team

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Dr Mario Peters

Chair

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Dr Mario Peters

Mario started his career as a research scientist at Oxford University, where he worked in the field of space technology, developing scientific instruments for NASA space missions. He moved into education in 1997 and has since founded seven education companies including Oxford International College, with six schools in UK, China and Switzerland. OIC’s flagship school in the UK was ranked the No 1 A-level school in the UK from 2019 to 2022.

Through his immersion in academia and education, Mario recognised the growing importance for young people to develop life skills alongside their academic qualifications. This led to the founding in 2012 of The Youth Leadership Trust, the forerunner to the Curriculum for Life.

Oli Williams

Project Designer

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Oli Williams

Oli studied Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Utrecht and has recently graduated from the University of Edinburgh with an MSc in Social Justice and Community Action. In support of CfL’s collaborative curriculum design process, his dissertation focused on exploring the opportunities, challenges and value of ‘Co-Creating Curricula with Students-as-Partners’. Oli initially joined CfL as a researcher and now works as Project and Youth Lead, supporting the implementation of our ‘convene, curate, create’ process to generate the Curriculum for Life.

Adrija Jana

Youth Core Circle Member

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Adrija Jana

Adrija Jana is a passionately creative youth activist and research writer based in India. She is currently an English major at Delhi University. Her work mostly revolves around protest against period poverty, marital rape and advocating for freedom of choice, apart from emotional self-lived experiences. She loves to build connections and work with children, and in her free time, she can be found exploring new genres of fiction and weird scientific facts!

Peter Williams

CEO

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Peter Williams

Peter has a background in small businesses and business coaching. He has partnered with business schools and consultancies to support the development of people, teams and organisations internationally since 2008. A long-serving trustee in schools and educational charities, currently with the PSHE Association, he was co-founder of The Youth Leadership Trust in 2012 and part of the team that initiated the Curriculum for Life concept.

By convening a multi sector team of experts and collaborative partners from around the world he is dedicated to enabling the delivery of a transformative, progressive curriculum that reflects and responds to the needs and expectations of children and young people now and in the future.

Claudi Williams

Trustee

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Claudi Williams

Claudi is a community organiser and founder of an award-winning volunteer group taking action on plastic in her community. She published ‘Small Steps to Less Waste – stories to inspire change’ in 2020. She has contributed to BBC radio programmes, national newspaper articles, podcasts, and speaking at a variety of events. She has worked for educational organisations for over 8 years, currently on a freelance basis.

Jay Koulaouzos

Youth Core Circle Member

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Jay Koulaouzos

Jay Koulaouzos is an ambitious university student from Hungary. He is studying Mechanical Engineering in Amsterdam, with a great interest in sailing and yacht design. During Jay’s gap year he worked as a sailing instructor at Lake Balaton, Hungary, teaching adults and children. It is through this job his passion for education and working with children grew. When Jay has some free time, he likes to go hiking, mountain biking, and hanging out with his mates.

Tajala

Youth Core Circle Member

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Tajala Fazli

Tajala is an 18 years old social activist, community caregiver, recruiter, volunteer, and artist from Afghanistan. A curious and creative girl who loves to learn, she enjoy reading, and exploring different cultures and languages. She is passionate about diversity and exploration.

Kat Hartley

Operations and Project Manager

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Kat Hartley

Kat has 12 years of professional experience in the non-profit sector specialising in events, fundraising and program management. Having started her career working in events and corporate fundraising across national and international organisations such as British Red Cross, Alzheimer’s Society and Barnardo’s, Kat has more recently worked with small grassroots start-ups, focusing on mental health in Bristol, and on refugee and migrant support in Lisbon.

Kat manages the operational and project planning aspects of Curriculum for Life, leading on communications and funding to help build a sustainable structure for the charity.

Raven Frias

Communications Lead

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Raven Frias

Raven Frias is a youth leader from the Philippines. She is currently pursuing her Master’s degree in Learning Sciences in the Learning Planet Institute and Université Paris Cité in France. Raven is involved in several lifelong learning projects and represents the youth sector in global advisory boards and conferences. Her advocacies include children’s rights, youth empowerment and progressive education. In her free time, she loves to journal, play guitar and edit videos.

Raven is the Communications Lead intern of Curriculum for Life, leading the creation of content and media. She joined the team to integrate her passion in creating multimedia art to her advocacy in making education more accessible and adaptive to what the youth needs. She curates the blogs and social media strategy to bring CfL’s work to life.

Niki Kerekes

Youth Core Circle Member

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Niki Kerekes

Niki Kerekes is a motivated young person from Hungary with a passion for helping others and a drive to step outside of her comfort zone. She is currently pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration with a specilisation in Enterpreneurship at IFM Business School in Geneva, Switzerland. Niki’s passion for learning resulted from completing the IB diploma program inspiring her to help bring high quality accessible education to young people globally. In her free time Niki enjoys doing Jigsaw puzzles, travelling and spending time with her friends and family.

Mission, Vision and Purpose

Guiding Principles

Our Team

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Our Team

Dr Mario Peters

Oli Williams

Adrija Jana

Peter Williams

Claudi Williams

Jay Koulaouzos

Tajala

Kat Hartley

Raven Frias

Niki Kerekes

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