Auken Tungatarova

Auken Tungatarova is a Digital Learning and Skills Development
Specialist at the UNICEF Europe and Central Asia Regional Office.
She is responsible for managing the regional agenda on digital
learning, focusing on supporting countries in the digital
transformation of education systems, digital skills development, and
integration of education technologies in teaching and learning
practices to mitigate learning losses and improve learning quality.

Before coming to the region, Auken worked at UNICEF HQ in New York, where she provided technical
assistance and support to different initiatives, partnerships, fundraising and visibility efforts across the
digital education portfolio. There she co-authored the UNICEF’s Pulse Check on Digital Learning report.
She also led work on “edutainment” focused on multiple pathways to learning through various types of
media, content and technologies.

Prior to UNICEF, Auken worked with the UNESCO Regional Bureau for Education in Asia-Pacific in
Bangkok where she coordinated various digital learning projects and advised governments and partners
on tech-enabled pedagogy, policies and competency-based teacher training reforms, among others. She
managed a network of 21 teacher education institutions in 13 countries in the region focused on digital
learning and innovative pedagogies.

Auken received a Master’s degree in International Educational Development from the University of
Pennsylvania.