
Thomas Granier, CEO of AVN, was made a Knight of the French Order of Merit on May 15th, in recognition of his tireless work in promoting sustainable and affordable housing in Africa. Read more...

Tony KAYE, AVN President, joined AVN as a volunteer after retiring from his post as Senior Lecturer at the British Open University. For five years he was Deputy Director of the Open University’s Centre for International Cooperation, after a two-year secondment to the Ministry of Education in Ivory Coast. He has consulted on distance education and programme evaluation for UNESCO, the World Bank (Ivory Coast, Cambodia), the European Commission (R&D on new technologies for learning), the International Telecommunications Union (Russia, Yemen, Jordan), the British Council (Ghana, Nigeria, Sri Lanka, Pakistan), the Commonwealth of Learning (Sri Lanka), and NATO. He has taught post-graduate courses in Sciences d'education at the Universities of Montpellier and Montreal.