Mr. Refat Sabbah
President, Global Campaign for Education (EASG)
Mr. Refat Sabbah is a lifelong human rights and education activist. He is the General Director and Founder of the Teacher Creativity Centre in Palestine, the Chair of the Arab Network for Civic Education (ANHRE), and the General Secretary of the Arab Campaign for Education for All (ACEA).He was elected a president of the Global Campaign for Education in 2018. He is also the visa chair of the Regional support group for the ED2030 with UNESCO, and he has chosen to be a member in ED2030 steering committee leading by UNESCO. The Teacher Creativity Center (TCC) is a Palestinian, non-profit, non-governmental organisation established in May 1995 by a group of teachers, including Mr. Sabbah. TCC has been at the forefront of organisations calling for the integration of civic education and human rights concepts into the entire school curriculum, not only in Palestine but also in the wider Arab World, and to date it has trained more than 25 000 teachers in Gaza and the West Bank. Mr. Sabbah also founded ACEA, which represents eleven national education coalitions across the Arab Region.