Marc Bolland

Early life

He received a bachelor's degree from the Hotelschool The Hague, and then an MBA at the University of Groningen.

Founder of Charitable Innovations : Movement to Work and The Learning Passport

In 2012, Bolland founded “Movement to Work” in response to the Croydon riots. The Charity was set up to give disadvantaged young people (with disabilities, no education, ex-offenders etc) an opportunity of a work placement and work. Bolland set up the Charity’s structure and was Chairman for 5 years. Since 2013 Movement to Work has delivered 225,000 work placements to the unemployed with over 89% resulting in full time employment or education.

In 2016, during the Syria crisis, Bolland in his role as Vice President UNICEF UK visited refugee camps in Jordan to better understand the delivery of education to refugees. Subsequent to the visit, Bolland developed an innovative digital education concept for refugee children, and children with limited access to education, to which he brought UNICEF and Cambridge University. The concept has been further developed in partnership with Microsoft, and has become “The Learning Passport” (of which Bolland is Founder Chairman). The Learning Passport was nominated as one of the top 100 innovations of 2021 by Time Magazine and as of March 2025 was used across 47 countries and by more than 10 million children.