Advisory board

More information about the Advisory board

• Iroise Dumontheil (Iroise.Dumontheil@unimelb.edu.au)

  Prof. Dr Iroise Dumontheil joined the School of Psychological Sciences at the University of Melbourne in 2023, as Professor of Psychology and ARC Future Fellow. Prior to this, she was a Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development, Department of Psychological Science, Birkbeck, University of London and she continues to be a member of the Centre for Educational Neuroscience, University of London. Her research focuses on the development of social cognition, cognitive control and metacognition during childhood and adolescence and their functioning in adulthood, and on the impact of cognitive training, from computerised games to mindfulness meditation practice, on cognition and academic performance in children and adolescents. After obtaining her PhD from the University of Paris, Iroise had postdoc positions at the MRC-Cognitive and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge, at UCL in London and at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. She was awarded the Spearman Medal from the British Psychology Society in 2015 and the Elizabeth Warrington Prize from the British Neuropsychological Society in 2017. She is an associated editor for the journals Developmental Science and Mind, Brain and Education.

• Gernanda Schutte (Gernanda.Schutte@agora.nu)

  Gernanda Schutte is Chiarman Executive Board of Agora, a school board of 24 primary schools in the Zaanstreek, educating about 7000 pupils. She started as a teacher in Amsterdam, and became the head of the school.  Later on she was an education expert for schools that needed to improve and became the head of education for a number of schools and a policy advisor. She was the manager of a program to attract more teachers in Amsterdam and made the State of the Primary Schools of Amsterdam. In January 2023 she started her work as executive board member. Her mission is to professionalise the primary school sector and enhance children’s life chances by providing them with an excellent standard of primary education.

• Emily Yeomans (emily.yeomans@eefoundation.org.uk)

  Emily is currently co-CEO of the Education Endowment Foundation. Throughout her career Emily has been involved in the generation of rigorous evidence and working to ensure it has real world impacts. This started with research into possible treatments for malaria, before training as a secondary science teacher and working to improve education by applying education research findings in practice. Emily was previously Director of Research at the EEF, overseeing the EEF’s research portfolio, including our programme evaluation work and our work to understand the impact of the everyday choices that school leaders and teachers can make.

• Rien Rouw (m.a.rouw@minocw.nl)

  Rien Rouw is strategic advisor at the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science (OCW).  Previously he worked as policy analyst at the OECD’s Directorate for Education and Skills, where he has been involved in research on governing complex education systems. He also was affiliated as a research fellow with the Netherlands School for Public Administration and with the Dutch Scientific Council for Government Policy, doing research on evidence-based policy making in Dutch government.