Ms Rebecca Leege
Building on her passion for collective impact for the most vulnerable, Rebecca Chandler Leege leads World Vision’s engagement in All Children Reading: A Grand Challenge for Development. All Children Reading: A Grand Challenge for Development, a partnership of USAID, World Vision and the Australian Government, is an ongoing series of grant and prize competitions that leverages science and technology to […]
Ms Ashley Haywood
Ashley Haywood is the Kiziba Refugee Campus Director at Kepler. Founded in 2013, the vision of Kepler is to reinvent higher education to develop the skills emerging economies need at a price all talented students can afford. Learn more at www.kepler.org. Ashley holds a BA in Anthropology and an MA in Teaching, both from the University […]
Mr. Joseph Nhan-O’Reilly
Joseph is Head of Education Policy & Advocacy at Save the Children where he works alongside a global team committed to increasing children’s access to quality education around the world. Joseph’s worked in Africa, Asia and the Middle East designing and implementing education programmes and leading policy development and influencing designed to improve educational access and outcomes. […]
Asmaa Al-Hajaji
Asmaa Al-Hajaji is Senior Research Associate at WISE, an initiative of Qatar Foundation that is an international and multi-sectoral platform for building the future of education through innovation. Asmaa at the moment is co-coordinating with recognized experts, researchers and thought-leaders the WISE research reports series. She has also worked as a program officer at WISE […]
Madam Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Madam Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is the 24th President of Liberia and Africa’s first democratically elected female Head of State; is serving her second term as President after winning the 2011 presidential election. She’s one of the three who won the Nobel Peace Prize Laureate in 2011. Madam Sirleaf has throughout her career demonstrated passionate commitment […]
Dr. Carlos Alberto Torres
Carlos Alberto Torres is Distinguished Professor of Education, Director of the UCLA Paulo Freire Institute, and UNESCO-UCLA Chair in Global Learning and Global Citizenship Education. Dr. Torres is a political sociologist of education educated in Argentina, Mexico, the United States and Canada. He is also Founding Director of the Paulo Freire Institute in São Paulo, Brazil; […]
Ms Mingxin Ye
Mingxin Ye, obtained LL.B. and LL.M. degrees from Peking University Law School, LL.M. degree from Columbia Law School as Marc Haas Public Interest Fellow. She worked as a public interest lawyer and chief researcher in one of the biggest labor NGOs in China for six years. In 2016, she co-founded Plan C which has grown […]
Ron Israel
Ron Israel is co-Founder and Executive Director of the Global Citizen’s Initiative (TGCI). TGCI is a non-profit organization that brings together people and organizations to address global issues within and across countries. He has more than twenty-five years experience in the design, implementation, and evaluation of large-scale international development training and capacity-building programs. He has […]
Mr. Andrew Miller
Andrew started his teaching career at a traditional high school in the areas of English and Social studies. He then transferred to be founding faculty member at a new school focused on Project Based Learning and STEAM education. After successfully implementing numerous projects across grades 6-12 he took the opportunity to become a full-time faculty […]
Michael Furdyk
Michael Furdyk is the Co-founder and Director of Innovation at TakingITGlobal (www.tigweb.org), which provides innovative global education programs that empower youth to understand and act on the world’s greatest challenges. In the past, he turned his interest in technology into several successful online companies, including MyDesktop.com, which sold to Internet.com in 1999. In 2008, he […]