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Carla Aerts

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Interdisciplinary Education Futures | AI/EdTech | Strategic Foresight | Change Catalyst &Consultant at Self-employed
📍 United Kingdom

Carla Aerts is an international expert on the future of education, specializing in EdTech, AI, and learning sciences. A member of the World Economic Forum Expert Network and Cambridges DEFI committee, she holds certifications from Oxford and LSE. Colleagues describe her as intelligent, inspirational, and a calm, logical thinker.

She is deeply curious about learning, storytelling, and creativity, stemming from a background in the performing arts. Carla serves as a governor at a local primary school and mentors non-profit organizations, including those working in refugee camps and socio-economically deprived contexts.

Unique fact: Carla has personally mentored over 100 EdTech startups, helping them embed research into their products.

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Experience
17 Years
Current Role
Interdisciplinary Education Futures | AI/EdTech | Strategic Foresight | Change Catalyst &Consultant
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
United Kingdom
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AI in Education
As a World Economic Forum expert, she consults on leveraging AI to reinvent and redefine educational models for leadership and policy makers worldwide.
Future of Learning
Shapes the future of learning through her role on the oversight committee for the Digital Education Futures Initiative (DEFI) at the University of Cambridge.
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Career

Work history

3-2023
Interdisciplinary Education Futures | AI/EdTech | Strategic Foresight | Change Catalyst &Consultant
Self-employed
5-2022
Oversight committee - Digital Education Futures Initiative - DEFI (Hughes Hall)
University of Cambridge
1-2023
Trustee
Big Education
2019
Expert Network
World Economic Forum
8-2024 - 1-2025
Advisor
Fractal - now Deepflow
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Education
2-2025 - 4-2035
Reality
Oxford Lifelong Learning, University of Oxford
6-2023 - 7-2023
Ethics of AI
The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
2-2023 - 4-2023
Oxford Artificial Intelligence Programme
Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
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