Teresa Mbagaya
Teresa Mbagaya
Overview
Teresa is the founder and leader of Econet Education, a system that reduces the cost of textbooks for students by working with producers to distribute e-books via tablets. She previously worked at Google on its Education team and partnered with the Emerging Markets Outreach team to provide free open source education materials to emerging markets. In 2013, she joined Econet Wireless as the youngest executive, where she created her project baptised Econet Education. Since then, Teresa has launched three education services (Econet Zero, EcoSchool and EcoSchool Academy) in Zimbabwe, with further aims for international expansion.