Maki Katsuno-Hayashikawa
Director, Division of Education 2030 @ UNESCO
Ms. Maki Katsuno-Hayashikawa is the Director of the Division for Education 2030 at UNESCO Headquarters. Maki has extensive experiences of more than 25 years with UNESCO, UNICEF and JICA, in managing global, regional and country level programmes on inclusive education, gender and education, ECCE, learning assessment and teacher education as well as coordinating partnerships in education. As Division Director, Maki oversees UNESCO’s global programmes on Gender and Inclusive Education, Higher Education, Education in Emergencies and leads the global SDG4 coordination mechanism. More recently, she served as the Executive Secretary of the secretariat for the Transforming Education Summit convened by the UN Secretary-General in September 2022.
