Claudia Frittelli
Program Officer,
African Higher Education

Claudia Frittelli is a Program Officer in the International Program at Carnegie Corporation. She develops and oversees grants on strengthening African universities including information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructure, e-learning, building research capacity, gender equity, and quality assurance. Her work includes coordination with the Partnership for Higher Education in Africa, a joint effort of Carnegie Corporation of New York, and the Ford, MacArthur, Rockefeller, William and Flora Hewlett and the Andrew W. Mellon foundations to build the capacity of African universities in the field of higher education in African countries including Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, and Uganda.

Ms. Frittelli has over 10 years experience in international development, information and communication technologies, and public private partnerships which has included strategic consulting to foundations, global non-profits and the private sector. She was formerly a Manager of the Global Digital Opportunity Initiative, a public private partnership focused on national ICT strategies in developing countries at the Markle Foundation. Her prior background includes five years in telecommunications business development at France Telecom and in the Internet sector.

Ms. Frittelli holds an MBA from the American Graduate School of International Management, Thunderbird, an M.A. in Linguistic Studies from Syracuse University.