Matthew Foster

Matt is the Director of the Open University’s International Development Office – a team that is focused on using open and distance learning to support people living and working in some of the most challenging parts of the world. He oversees a number of projects involving academics in the Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies, working with partners to provide high quality training to teachers, health workers and humanitarian workers at a large scale. Matt joined The Open University in 2015 after spending more than a decade at international development charity Voluntary Services Overseas (VSO) where he worked in a variety of roles, from supporting volunteers working in Cambodia to the Director of Strategy overseeing VSO’s work in over 22 countries. In his spare time he enjoys being a dad (except the home schooling part), playing sport and supporting Liverpool FC! 

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