Andrea PREGEL

Global Technical Lead, Inclusive Health at Sightsavers

Earthling. Human. I am an inclusive development professional with nine years of experience in disability inclusion, Deaf culture, gender equity, intersectionality, global development, global health and inclusive education across Asia, Africa and Europe. In my role at Sightsavers, I have strategic and technical oversight of the inclusive health programme portfolio across South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa, and I co-chair the Inclusive Health Task Group of the International Disability and Development Consortium (IDDC). In 2014, I co-founded the Global Observatory for Inclusion (GLOBI), a nonprofit organisation based in Italy, and I designed and managed the global #DrawDisability campaign on inclusive education, launched in partnership with the United Nations and several international organisations. In the past, I have conducted research in the Deaf community in Malaysia and worked in educational programmes in Iceland with AFS, in Nepal with CESIE, and in Italy with EDI Onlus and Save the Children. Year of this biography: