LGA's mission is to improve the quality of higher education by helping owners and operators of higher education institutions achieve their goals. LGA offers consulting in strategy, operations, due diligence and finance for owners, operators and investors in the higher education sector. LGA's founder, Nick Levi-Gardes, has been working in the private higher education sector for the last five years, four of which were spent as a senior executive of Maarifa Education, a Kenya-based platform which invests in private universities throughout Africa.