Board of Directors | Suzanne Grant Lewis
Suzanne Grant Lewis is the Coordinator of the Partnership for Higher Education in Africa, a collaboration of seven US foundations supporting the transformation of higher education in nine African countries. She is a Research Scholar at the NYU Steinhardt School of Education.
Dr. Grant Lewis was a Harvard faculty member 1997-2006, where she co-developed and directed the International Education Policy Program. Her research focuses on policy efforts to address educational inequalities in sub-Saharan Africa . She has a long-term commitment to developing educational research capacity in sub-Saharan Africa.
Grant Lewis has published on the notion of participation in school governance, South Africa 's education decentralization, the promotion of democratic decision-making in education, the role of microcomputers in African development, and the national primary learning assessment in Namibia.
Dr. Grant Lewis spent over five years in southern Africa as an advisor on research, policy, and planning to the Namibian and Malawian ministries of education and worked in various capacities in Kenya and Tanzania for six years. She earned her Ph D from Stanford University and has been awarded Fulbright fellowships for research ( Tanzania ) and teaching ( South Africa ).