Katia’s focus is on introducing world class Finnish education solutions to the Gulf region. Her in depth understanding of the Middle East and Finnish markets in specific is due to her multicultural Iraqi/Finnish background and native knowledge of both cultures and languages. Passionate about seeing the joy of learning through stress free and playful education. 

Katia has over 20 years of business development and leadership experience in the Education, Telecommunications and IT Industries. She has held various key roles in multinational companies (Pearson Education, Nokia, Sun Micorsystems, Comptel) based in Finland and the Middle East. She holds an M.Sc. in Telecommunications from Aalto University and B.Sc. in Computer Engineering from Baghdad University and is studying for an MA in Education Entrepreneurship at The Oulu University of Applied Sciences.