Beth Havinga is the Founder and Managing Director of Connect EdTech. Beth consults to UNICEF supporting the review of the EdTech for Good Framework, and the Council of Europe on the regulation and evaluation of AI within education as well as to the project AI LEARN. Beth currently serves on the Digitisation Council of the state of Berlin in Germany, on the steering committee of DigiEduHack, and serves on the advisory boards of Change Learning, CoSN, and the Children’s Future Foundation, and the scientific advisory board of the AKAD University. 

Until Summer 2026, Beth manages the European EdTech Alliance and represents the EEA at the European Commission stakeholder group on Digital Education Content and UNESCO’s Digital Transformation Collaborative. 

Beth is chairwoman of the German standardization committee for Learning Technologies and represents Germany as head delegate to the European committee for standardization of interoperability of learning technologies and edtech. 

In the past, Beth has taught in schools, managed education software and publishing houses, founded two startups, and worked in over 45 countries to develop digital structures and strategies.