Chris Bradford is the President of African Leadership Foundation. A co-founder of African Leadership Academy, Chris brings experience in the corporate, educational, and grantmaking sectors. He has worked as a Consultant with the Boston Consulting Group and in brand management at the Procter and Gamble Company. In Africa, Chris helped launch the Summer Academy at Cape Town, a highly successful international summer program for high school students. He also spent two years a Peter Ling Teaching Fellow at Oundle School, one of the largest coeducational boarding schools in the United Kingdom. Chris also worked with The Broad Foundation, one of the leading educational foundations in the United States, in the summer of 2005.

Chris has a BA degree summa cum laude from Yale University, an MBA from Stanford University, and will complete an MA in Education Administration at Stanford University in early 2006. At Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, Chris was named one of five Siebel Scholars in recognition of his academic excellence and extracurricular leadership.

Julia Unger, the Operations Associate at African Leadership Foundation manages Foundation operations, including fundraising, event planning and the development of U.S. based chapters to support African Leadership Academy. She is a graduate of Smith College and was a Fulbright Scholar.

Ryan Phillips-Page assists the African Leadership Foundation’s fundraising efforts. The son of South African immigrant to the United States, Ryan assists with development and fundraising activities in New York City.  Ryan has spent three years in the investment banking division of Goldman Sachs in New York City and holds a BA degree with honors from Boston College.