ARC Ambassadors

Tore Skandsen is a senior educational leader with more than 25 years of international experience in educational development, system leadership, and large-scale change processes. His work spans schools, districts, municipalities, and national governments, with a particular focus on strengthening developing and transitioning education systems through long-term, values-driven partnerships.

For over a decade, Tore has served as CEO of the IMTEC Foundation (International Movement Towards Educational Change), where he continues to play a central role in shaping the foundation’s strategic direction and international engagement. Through IMTEC, he has led and contributed to comprehensive regional and national development initiatives across through different parts of the world. , supporting education systems in areas such as leadership development, quality assurance, evaluation, professional learning, and system coherence.

Alongside his work at IMTEC, Tore has worked in partnership with the Centre for Studies of Educational Practice at Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, where he contributes to research-informed practice and the connection between theory, policy, and implementation in education.

Tore has been actively engaged in the Atlantic Rim Collaboratory (ARC) since ARC was founded and is a long-standing member of the ARC Secretariat. In this capacity, he has contributed to the design and facilitation of ARC’s collaborative processes, including annual summits, ThoughtMeets, and cross-system learning dialogues.

As an ARC Ambassador, Tore continues to represent ARC’s shared values internationally and will participate actively in ARC Secretariat and Secretary meetings, supporting strategic coordination, knowledge exchange, and system-level learning across member jurisdictions. An entrepreneurial leader, he consistently creates opportunities for cross-system collaboration, building new constellations of partnerships aimed at strengthening student learning, system development, and sustainable international cooperation.

Throughout his career, Tore has been driven by a deep commitment to equity, inclusion, professional trust, and sustainable improvement in education systems. His work emphasizes building local capacity, aligning policy with practice, and creating conditions for collective learning across levels of the system.

His personal motto captures the spirit of his professional life:
“What have you done today to make the world a better place?”