Duolingo English Test, Global. Michael Lynas joins the Duolingo English Test team as UK country lead. He was previously serving as VP of strategic initiatives at INTO University Partnerships. Michael is an experienced leader with a track record of founding and growing impactful new ventures. As well as INTO, he’s worked across all three sectors – for Bain in the private sector, for No10 in the public sector, and in the not-for-profit sector he founded National Citizen Service (NCS). Under his leadership NCS grew into a national institution enshrined in legislation and by Royal Charter that has created billions of pounds of social value by supporting 600,000 young people. He continues to serve NCS as a Patron and sits on the Boards of the John Browne Charitable Trust and City Year UK. He has degrees in politics and public policy from Cambridge and Harvard.