Alex Maws
Head of Eduction and Heritage
Key talking points:
Teaching & learning about the Holocaust
Contemporary antisemitism
Alex Maws has worked in the Holocaust educational field for more than 20 years.
As the Head of Education and Heritage at the Association of Jewish Refugees (AJR), Alex champions and evaluates educational programmes across the UK.
He is a member of the UK delegation to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) and partners with UNESCO and other international organisations to train educators and policy makers globally on issues relating to the Holocaust and antisemitism. He is the producer and host of the AJR’s ‘Kindertransport’ podcast and the creator of the online UK Holocaust Map.
Prior to joining the AJR in 2017, he was Head of Education at the Holocaust Educational Trust.
He has also worked at Facing History & Ourselves and was a classroom teacher in East London. Alex earned an MA in Social Justice & Education from the UCL Institute of Education and a BA in Political Science from the University of Michigan.
