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Adam Ranson

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Adam Ranson is a teacher and educator with three decades of experience as a curriculum project manager, and a trainer and consultant on global learning, sustainable development, climate change and social justice. 

He has been a trainer and regional advisor for the British Council and a global learning consultant for several consortia throughout Europe. Adam has also been involved with global learning and climate justice education programmes in Africa, Latin America, and South and East Asia. 

By coordinating the development of a methodology which enables schools to deliver education programmes, Adam has helped to prepare students to meet the global challenges outlined by the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Over the past five years, he has been working on two international projects with schools across Europe to develop materials and approaches for embedding climate change into the curriculum. 

Adam has been a coordinator for Leeds Development Education Centre for more than 20 years and is also a director of the national Consortium for Development Education Centres (CoDEC). Prior to that, he was the coordinator of Hull Development Education Centre, a practising primary teacher and a validated local authority teacher trainer for almost 10 years.