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Michael Stevenson, Cisco

Michael Stevenson is Cisco’s Vice President of Global Education. He is responsible for developing Cisco’s education strategy and leading implementation in countries where the company is working on a non-commercial basis to bring about education reform.

Michael has built his expertise in education technology through roles in government and media. After joining the BBC as a graduate trainee, Michael specialised in politics and religion, going on to found and edit the flagship political programme On the Record. He then went into management, initially as BBC Secretary for the years leading up to the successful 1996 Charter Renewal.

From 2000 to 2003, he founded and led the BBC’s Factual and Learning Directorate, responsible for factual programmes and content across television, radio and online and spearheading an innovative education strategy that created an online curriculum for children at school and at home.

As former CIO and Director of Technology at the Department for Education and Skills (DFES), Michael was responsible for driving the use of ICT in schools, colleges and universities. Before that he was DFES Director of Strategy.

Other current roles include a Non Executive Directorship with Granada Learning, an education technology company; and sitting on the board of Khulisa, a South African not for-profit specialising in restorative justice.