Corrin Varady
Managing Director, African Digital Content Holdings, Mauritius
Dr Corrin Varady is an academic and educational entrepreneur. He has two Masters degrees (Bocconi School of Economics/UNSW and LSE) with First Class Honours and a PhD at the London School of Economics in 2015 and has been an Australia Day Ambassador. Dr Varady currently works for African Digital Content Holdings and is Managing Director of Institute of Digital Education Africa South Africa both being digital education companies established to create and deliver self-paced, personalised, interactive content for students and teachers in Africa and the Middle East. Dr Varady also featured in the international documentary, “The Road to Freedom Peak”, which was received with critical acclaim, first premiering on Fox and is currently available on Netflix. Over a decade ago, Dr Varady established the World Youth Education Trust to educate former child soldiers and students in East Africa. Dr Varady established one a counselling centre for former child soldiers, a boarding house for over 200 students, the WYET Football league for female former child soldiers and hundreds of education sponsorships. The WYET Mwalimu Anna Primary School in Tanzania has been ranked 1st in the region in since 2013 and WYET runs the WYET Maasai school in Kigongoni, Northern Tanzania.