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Lucy joined CAMFED in 1994, shortly after it was founded, and went on to become the CEO. In 2023, Lucy stepped aside as CEO, continuing as Executive Chair until stepping down from a formal role in July 2024. Lucy now champions CAMFED across a broad front, in making the case for girls’ education and gender equality.
Under Lucy’s leadership, CAMFED was awarded the Hilton Humanitarian Prize, the Princess of Asturias Award for International Cooperation, and was recognized by the Development Assistance Committee of the OECD for best practice in taking development innovation to scale. In 2020, Lucy was awarded the Yidan Prize for Education Development alongside Angeline Murimirwa, for her contribution to gender equality in education.
Lucy is a founding member and former Co-Chair of the United Nations Girls’ Education Initiative, and a member of the High-Level Steering Group of the Education Commission’s Workforce Initiative. She represented CAMFED on the Advisory Board of the Global Education Monitoring Report.
2023 is a milestone year for CAMFED: we celebrate our 30th anniversary, and we will see the membership of the CAMFED Association surpass a quarter of a million; a powerful force for development! I believe we have an important moment to reset CAMFED’s leadership and take this force to the next level, and for this, I am passing the baton to Angeline Murimirwa.
On December 7, at the 2020 Yidan Prize Awards Presentation Ceremony and Summit, hosted virtually this year, CAMFED Co-Executives Angeline Murimirwa and Lucy Lake accepted the Yidan Prize for Education Development on behalf of everyone in our movement. They were invited to join the newly-formed Council of Luminaries which gathers 16 leading educational researchers and innovators to drive education progress globally.
CAMFED Co-Executives Angeline Murimirwa and Lucy Lake are urging the global education community to take an approach that is both inclusive and disruptive in order to change the status quo and deliver social justice.
This year marks the 5th birthday of the Research for Equitable Access to Learning (REAL) Centre at the University of Cambridge, launched in partnership with CAMFED. In their most recent seminar, CAMFED Co-Executives Angeline Murimirwa and Lucy Lake highlighted the impact of CAMFED’s Learner Guides on their wider communities during the COVID-19 pandemic.
In her blog, Lucy Lake, CAMFED Co-Executive Director explains how CAMFED’s Learner Guide Program is pushing up academic attainment in schools and increasing students confidence.
On September 23rd, 2020, the Yidan Prize Foundation, a global philanthropic educational foundation inspiring future progress and change in education, named Angeline Murimirwa, CAMFED’s Executive Director – Africa, and Lucy Lake, CAMFED’s Chief Executive Officer, as 2020 laureates of the Yidan Prize for Education Development, the world’s largest prize in education.
Glennon Nieman $52.9
Brenda Chadambura $21.4
Anne Sablonniere £124.9
Ann Fernandez $10.9
Michael Livanos $200
Brock Warner $5.6
Karissa Rounds $58.2
Anthony Gaudio $106
Lindsey Fowler $5.6
Jen Taylor $58.2
Tim North $100
Charlie ONeill $26.6
Kyra Dunlap $132
Claudia and James Ingols $150
Martha Dunn $500
