Simon Sommer

Simon Sommer is Co-CEO of the Jacobs Foundation. Before joining the Jacobs Foundation in 2006, he worked at the Volkswagen Foundation in Hannover, Germany’s largest private research funder, and as a management consultant with McKinsey & Company in Berlin, Germany. He holds graduate degrees from the Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Germany, and the University of Maryland, College Park, USA.

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Do we need a learning revolution, or rather accelerated evolution?

Simon Sommer / 11 April 2018

Opinion Learning & Education 21st century skills

”Health care for young children pays large social dividends”

Simon Sommer / 25 April 2017

Interview Development Equity

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Saloni Krishnan

Reader in Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London

Chris Fu

Graduate Researcher, University of Washington

Catherine Lebel

Associate Professor, Radiology at the University of Calgary

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