Beatrice CernutaGroup Strategy Director at Elite K12
Profile
Beatrice Cernuta is Group Strategy Director at Elite K12, a Chinese education group focused on top-quality bilingual schools and education services focused on nurturing “global citizens”. Beatrice’s entire career has been devoted to the education sector. Having started her journey as an educator at Eton College, she later worked in both strategy consulting roles as well as in strategy and operations roles for private education companies. Ms. Cernuta joined K12 from EY-Parthenon in Dubai, where she led and grew the firm’s Education strategy unit across Middle East.
Originally from Italy, Ms. Cernuta studied Classics and Oriental Studies at Oxford University, from where she graduated with a Double First Class. Beatrice is a native speaker of three languages (Italian, Spanish and English) and she regularly features in international education publications and conferences (including IPSEF, Education Investor, Mergermarket, the Harvard India Conference).