Sarah Cottereau, Director of Programme Quality Assurance

Sarah is MAGENTA's Director of Programme Quality Assurance. She is a project management expert with 15 years' experience designing and managing complex social and behavioural change programmes with a particular focus on education in fragile contexts. She possesses subject matter expertise in education programming, including early childhood development (ECD), child protection, and inclusive education.

Sarah leads the technical and quality assurance department at MAGENTA, providing extenisve support to regional teams and putting standards in place to accompany MAGENTA's growth and make us a leader in our field. After managing several of MAGENTA's flagship projects in Tunisia, the UAE, Afghanistan, and Kyrgyzstan, Sarah is now using her experience to build MAGENTA's staff capacity and provide strategic guidance in project design and deliverable production to the highest quality.

Sarah holds a Master’s degree in International Relations from Sciences-Po Paris. She speaks fluent French and English as well as conversational Russian, Italian and German.