About

Olaf was appointed Founding Director of ESSA in 2016 and CEO in 2019, on secondment from his position as Senior Vice President and Head of the Education, Society and Culture department at the Robert Bosch Foundation. 

As well as being a Senior Advisor to ESSA, Olaf is currently Senior Vice President of Strategic Development with the Robert Bosch Foundation, responsible for developing strategy to support Education in Africa.  

He has worked as an editor and within sales and was a lecturer at the University of Gdansk, Poland. Educated in France, Germany and the USA, he is multi-lingual.