Tom Lent
Adjunct Senior Professorial Lecturer
SOE Faculty
Degrees
Ph.D. studies in International Studies from the University of Notre Dame (All But Dissertation). MA in International Relations from School of International Service at American University BA in International Studies from School of International Service at American University
Bio
Mr. Lent has 40 years of experience in six regions of the world in different roles, including leadership and management, facilitation, strategic planning, organizational development, organizational learning, knowledge development, and training/capacity building. He has worked in different themes, including integrated development, human rights, child rights, advocacy, gender, disaster relief, systemic change, and education sector reform; and with diverse entities, including NGOs, CSOs, the UN, local and national governments, foundations, social movements, the World Bank, and the private sector. He presently works for Training Resource Group as Project Director for EPIC, a project focused on strengthening the Education Office and education sector of USAID. As a Senior Program Director with AED/FHI360, Mr. Lent served as the Project Director for an educational reform project embedded within the Ministry of Education in Zambia. He also designed/facilitated UNICEF’s “Global Consultation for Gender Equality” (for all eight regions and the headquarters) and capacity building workshops on gender equality for UNICEF staff in Latin America/the Caribbean. In collaboration with the World Bank Institute, he designed and facilitated three Distance Learning Courses on education quality and decentralization, including a series of videoconferences that actively and meaningfully engaged education stakeholder exchanges of experiences across nine African countries. In 2004-05, he served as an advisor to the MoE in Guatemala in the Vision Education process that brought together stakeholders across the country. He co-designed and co-delivered sessions for Education Sector Capacity Building for USAID staff from different regions in several of their international conferences. In the last 5 years, Lent has had consultancies and facilitated strategic planning, international strategy meetings, program development, and advocacy strategies with the European Foundation Centre, the Global Alliance of Community Foundations, the Board of CIES, the faculty of ICE at Columbia University, the Alliance for Peacebuilding, the Right to Education, and the Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. The intention behind Lent’s work is to build – in collaboration with others - processes, institutions, organizations and systems that work more intelligently, effectively, responsibly and have a greater, collective impact in their contexts and in the world. Mr. Lent has also worked for Business Community Synergies, Inc., UNICEF, the Bernard Van Leer Foundation, Save the Children (Norway, US and the Alliance), Plan International, the Palestinian Welfare Organization, Peace Corps, Global Rights, the European Foundation Center, Watchlist for Children and Armed Conflict, and Global Action for Children.
