Allan Walker

Allan Walker is the Joseph Lau Professor of International Educational Leadership, Dean of the Faculty of Education and Human Development Department and Director of the Asia Pacific Centre for Leadership and Change at the Education University of Hong Kong. He has worked in Hong Kong for 25 years and researches the influence of culture on […]
Azad Oommen

Azad Oommen is the co-founder of Global School Leaders, a non-profit that develops effective school leadership to improve learning of students from marginalized communities around the world. He was the founding Executive Director of the Central Square Foundation (CSF), an India-based venture philanthropy fund that invests in systemic reforms to improve the quality of student […]
Baidurya Sen

Baidurya Sen is the co-founder of Alokit, an organization that works to improve student outcomes by building the capacity of school leaders and education officers in India. Baidurya started his career in the education sector in 2012 as a primary school teacher working with the disadvantaged communities in the city of Pune. He saw the […]
Gail McMillan

Gail McMillan is a member of Symphonia for South Africa’s Monitoring & Evaluation team.
Robyn Whittaker

Robyn Whittaker is Stakeholder Engagement Lead for Symphonia for South Africa and its flagship programme, Partners for Possibility. Partners for Possibility partners school principals and business leaders together in a transformative leadership to become change agents for the school and community they are engaged with.
Ilse Flink
Meagan Richard

Meagan Richard is a doctoral candidate at the University of Illinois at Chicago studying Policy Studies in Urban Education. Her research interests center on social justice and activism in educational settings, including school leader, student, teacher, community, and researcher activism. Meagan sees each of these forms of activism as interconnected within an educational ecosystem and […]
Alan Daly

Professor in the Department of Education Studies at the University of California, San Diego. Prior to coming to the university Alan had over 16 years of public education experience in a variety of positions ranging from classroom teacher to district psychologist to site administrator. Alan has presented at the local, state, national, and international level […]