Sarah Kleinmann is an EdTech specialist and has been working as a consultant for the World Bank since 2020.
As an engineer, she spent her first year with the World Bank infrastructure and transport sector team on operational projects in sub-Saharan Africa (Malawi, Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, and DRC), handling management, research, and analytical tasks.
Following that experience, she joined the World Bank EdTech team as a consultant in the Global Education Practice. After the first months of the pandemic, she helped the EdTech team with the design of the report “Remote Learning During the Global School Lockdown: Multi-Country Lessons”. She was also in charge of the harmonization and creation of EdTech Knowledge Packs.
She then spent years supporting multiple regions and countries including Caribbean islands, the Sahel, Senegal, Rwanda, Congo, South Africa, and others on tech-supported open school projects, digital skills assessments, studies and toolkits, resilience studies, EdTech integration pilot and blueprints, AI trainings and WB infrastructure, digital and Edtech activities portfolio analyses.
She was coordinator, instructor and material producer for 3 iterations of the Edtech Policy Academy covering about 20 African country teams, supporting them in the draft and implementation of their EdTech policies, strategies and action plans.
She started at the mEducation Alliance a community of practice of 30+ organizations delivering Edtech products and projects in FCV contexts, gathering them for online sessions to brainstorm on key development questions and on how to foster collaboration to provide end-to-end, innovative and robust solutions.
Aside from her work at the World Bank, Sarah Kleinmann supports schools and universities in integrating technology and AI in teaching and learning, and is the learning engineer and program director of AI trainings.
As of education, Sarah has graduated from one of the top engineering schools in France, Mines de Paris PSL. After her master in science and executive engineering at Mines, she completed her training with a second master in Edtech and innovation management in La Sorbonne, and a third master in development economics in Université Grenoble Alpes. She spent a semester doing research at the MIT Humanitarian Supply Chain Lab.