Amel Karboul

Amel Karboul (born 25 April 1973) is a Tunisian author, speaker, Politician, Philantrophist, and Business leader. Karboul was the first woman in history to occupy Tunisia's Minister of Tourism position as the youngest member of the Mehdi Jomaa government from January 2014 to February 2015.

Quotes

 * Pouring more money in a broken system does only fund more inefficiencies, because often, we don’t think and act in results and learning outcomes are results.
 * Talking about how investing in learning is a good cause


 * Leadership is about the decisions you make and the conversations you have. It is also about the time you give.
 * Talking about what she has learnt in her career on the importance of leadership for improving citizen outcomes


 * At the end, if you think about Africa and the Middle East, there is a huge lack of leadership. It has to be integrated with ethics. Maybe the human side of leadership is the most important piece.
 * Interview with Amel Karboul, CEO of Education Outcomes Fund for Africa and the Middle East (7 January 2019)


 * Around 330 million children are in school, but not learning. There are bodies in classrooms, but not educated minds.
 * Addressing the scale of the current learning crisis (19 September 2018)


 * Education has been a neglected child globally; it has been seen as a national problem and has not really attracted much attention. Outside of the education bubble, I do not think that people are really aware of the true scale of the problem.
 * The reason education has become a huge problem globally that it is now pinpointed by SDG4, Quality Education for all
 * We need more financial resources directed at education because we have more children, and also because 21st-century skills are more complex than anything that has been taught before. On the other side, the way that we are currently spending money as a society on education is not bringing the results we want to achieve.
 * Speaking on the strive for quality education for all
 * Institutions…could support the development of the whole ecosystem through knowledge building or creating a taskforce with other fiduciary investors and the ecosystem of dedicated impact bond managers. They have big capacities to bring systematic change, in advocacy and conversation with governments
 * A call to action to other responsible investors, urging them to get involved in helping to develop the outcomes funding market