Mr. Boris Bulayev

Co-founder and Executive Director Boris Bulayev has been leading Educate! for nearly ten years, taking just one year off to work in the private sector at startup incubator Loeb Enterprises. As Executive Director, Mr Bulayev has driven Educate!’s extraordinary growth from a volunteer-run scholarship program for a small number of refugees to a scalable, high-impact […]
Ms Habiba Mohammed

Ms Habiba Mohammed is the Co-Director of Centre for Girl-Child Education (CGE) in Kaduna state, Nigeria. Habiba has participated in numerous conferences, seminars and workshops, including the 2014 Girl Effect University workshop and the 2015 London Trust Women Conference. She is an alumna of the US Department of State’s Teaching Excellence and Achievement Programme (TEA) in 2014. […]
Mr. Borna Scognamiglio

Borna Scognamiglio is the CEO and co-founder of Pixis. A former researcher at Paris-Sorbonne University, he holds a double Bachelor’s degree in Cultural Heritage and Cultural management, a Master’s degree in History as well as certificates in entrepreneurship from ESCP Europe and Design thinking from École Centrale, Lyon. A member of the UN Sustainable Development […]
Chloé Morin

Chloé Morin graduated in Economic history and Development economics at SciencesPo PARIS and the London School Of Economics. She spent 5 years as an advisor to the French Prime ministers Jean-Marc Ayrault and Manuel Valls, specifically on public opinion analysis and communications strategy. She has been the director of Fondation Jean Jaurès’ Public opinion observatory […]
Ms Qu Zhehan

Qu Zhehan is a journalist specialized in the area of people’s welfare in the state-owned newspaper People’s Daily. She is skilled in investigative reporting and pays special attention to people’s livelihoods. Her series of reports —Who Comprises the Vulnerable Group, Left-Behind Children, and Gap Between the Rich and the Poor, attracted widespread attention around the […]
Santosh Kumar Choubey

A visionary social entrepreneur working tirelessly for over three decades, to transform millions of lives in rural, tribal and semiurban India by providing vocational skills and entrepreneurship opportunities. He evolved the model of Multipurpose ICT Centres for social entrepreneurship in India. He forfeited coveted jobs like Indian Civil Services and Indian Engineering Services to establish […]
Ms Mary Helen Immordino-Yang

Mary Helen Immordino-Yang is Professor of Education, Psychology and Neuroscience at USC Rossier and the Brain and Creativity Institute at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences. She is President of the International Mind, Brain and Education Society, and serves on the Aspen Institute’s National Commission on Social, Emotional and Academic Development.
Dr. Lida Tsene

Lida Tsene holds a PhD on social media and social responsibility from Panteion University, Department of Communication, Media and Culture. She teaches digital media and communications at Open University of Cyprus. Her research interests apply to the fields of social media, digital economy, media responsibility, transmedia storytelling, entrepreneurship, cultural management and comics. She has been […]
Ms Jill Grossman

Jill Grossman is the Senior Director of Strategic Communications and Policy. In this role, she has overseen the publication of numerous op-eds and articles in national publications and the production of videos on school and district leadership. Jill also co-authored “Still in the Game,” a research paper and policy brief on the impact on ongoing […]
Ms Ana Homayoun

Ana Homayoun is an author, educator, speaker and school consultant. She is the author of three books: That Crumpled Paper Was Due Last Week: Helping Disorganized Boys Succeed in School and Life (TarcherPerigee 2010), The Myth of the Perfect Girl: Helping Our Daughters Find Authentic Success and Happiness in School and Life(TarcherPerigee 2012), and Social Media Wellness: Helping Teens […]