Cat Davison

Founder / CEO

Cat Davison is a hands-on social entrepreneur and educator working and learning with grassroots teachers across the world to ignite future-ready education through participatory design methods. She has degrees in Philosophy, Management, Education & International Development from Corpus Christi College, Cambridge and University College London. She holds a PGCE with QTS, with 11 years of classroom teaching and sports coaching, including at senior leadership level, alongside 13 years of educational experience in the Ghanaian context.

During her teaching career, she developed a citizenship education network across the UK alongside social leadership programmes, curriculums and online courses, also developing a school-wide approach to embedding social change education as Director of the Institute of Service and Partnerships at Sevenoaks School. In 2021, she was selected as a Finalist for the 2021 UNESCO-backed Varkey Foundation $1million Global Teacher Prize.

Today, Cat is the CEO/Founder of EduSpots, an NGO partnering with over 400 connected local changemakers who lead 50+ inclusive, tech-enabled community-led learning spaces (“Spots”) across Ghana, Kenya, and beyond. EduSpots’ unique community-led model centres on local ownership, global citizenship, and dialogical learning, with Catalysts modelling inclusive, student-centred and interactive approaches that ripple into schools and communities.

Cat is a 2025 UNESCO Youth for Peace Young Leader, 2024 Gratitude Network Fellow, 2023 Ashoka Changemakers Everywhere Academy participant, and was shortlisted for the 2021 Pearson Education Lockdown Hero and Learner Award, Big Change Big Education Challenge and 2018 Unilever Young Social Entrepreneur’s Award.