Skip to content
  • Home
  • About
    • About Us
    • Our Partners
  • All Events
  • Seminars
  • Podcasts
  • EU-UK Events
  • News
  • Get Involved
    • Support us
    • Work With Us
    • Internships
Menu
  • Home
  • About
    • About Us
    • Our Partners
  • All Events
  • Seminars
  • Podcasts
  • EU-UK Events
  • News
  • Get Involved
    • Support us
    • Work With Us
    • Internships
Linkedin Twitter

Zelmira Koch Polk

Trustee

Zelmira Koch Polk (Trustee) is the managing director of the Hearth Advisors, a global education and healthcare advisory firm specialised in building and turning around businesses. Zelmira is a co-founder of a new British fully immersive, virtual 16+ school, looking to challenge the way online schooling is being delivered and assessed. Prior to the Hearth, Zelmira founded and ran the international division of Chartwell Education Group, consulting group created by the former U.S. Secretary of Education. Zelmira spent the first part of her career working in crisis management and corporate public relations with Dilenschneider Group and M&A banking at Credit Suisse First Boston before focusing on education and health. Zelmira is an IOD Chartered Director and serves on the board of directors of Obrizum Group, an AI-powered adaptive online professional training group, AIDG Genomics, a diagnostics company focused on oncology, hereditary and infectious diseases,Expert Impact,Governor, and vice-chair of board at Beavers School Hounslow, and advisory board of World Innovation Summit (WISE). Zelmira previously served on the board of EdTech X Holdings, the world’s first publicly listed SPAC focused on education, ARFA Röhrenwerke AG, a Swiss steel company, served on international advisory council of the International Crisis Group and Oxford Weidenfeld-Hoffman Scholarship Trust. Zelmira lives in London and speaks five languages.

Aspen Institute Zelmira

The Aspen Institute United Kingdom
c/o Edelman UK
105 Victoria Street
London SW1E 6QT


+44 7367 949484

[email protected]g
  • Home
  • About
  • News
  • Partners
  • Join Us
  • Events
  • Seminars
  • Conversations
  • Privacy & Cookie Policy
  • Linkedin
  • Twitter

©2022 Aspen Institute UK. All Rights Reserved
Registered charity number: 1186896