Educate for equality
Putting gender equality at the heart of education
![Nora Fyles](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2020-09/Nora-Fyles-Our-team-UNGEI.jpeg?itok=fKS_-ZX1)
Nora heads the UNGEI Secretariat. Before joining UNGEI, she led the education policy team at the Canadian International Development Agency.
From 2003, she served as a senior education specialist for CIDA’s Asia Programme. Prior to her time at CIDA, Nora worked for multilateral organizations, NGOs, educational institutions and government ministries with a focus on education and gender issues, including extended residential assignments in Vietnam, Belize, Bangladesh and Indonesia.
In Canada, Nora has worked as a senior policy analyst for the Status of Women Canada, taught children and adults and managed community-based literacy programmes.
Nora holds an MA in International Affairs from the Norman Patterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University, and a MEd from the Ontario Institute for the Studies of Education, University of Toronto.