Dr. Richard C. Larson
Dr. Larson is Mitsui Professor of Engineering Systems at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Dr. Larson has focused his research and practice on the services sector, primarily in the fields of technology-enabled education, urban service systems, queueing, logistics and workforce planning. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering. […]
Mr. Arvind Gupta
Arvind Gupta graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (1975) with a degree in Electrical Engineering. He has written 15 books on science activities, translated 140 books in Hindi and presented 125 films on science activities on the National Television Doordarshan. His firstbook Matchstick Models & Other Science Experiments was translated in 12 Indian languages and sold […]
Dr. George Siemens
George Siemens is an academic and researcher on learning, systemic change, networks, analytics, and openness in education. He is the author of Knowing Knowledge, an exploration of how the context and characteristics of knowledge have changed and what it means to organizations today, and the Handbook of Emerging Technologies for Learning. Dr. Siemens is Professor and […]
H.E. Naledi Pandor
Her Excellency Naledi Pandor is South Africa’s Minister of Home Affairs. Her grandfather, Z. K. Matthews, an anthropologist and lawyer, played a prominent role in African political history. Her father’s political activism led to his long exile, which provided Naledi Pandor with the opportunity to receive an international education. Mrs Pandor received a B.A. degree […]
Jeffrey Selingo
Jeffrey Selingo, an author and columnist, has spent his journalism career covering colleges and universities worldwide. His book, College (Un)Bound: The Future of Higher Education and What It Means for Students, explores the college of tomorrow– how families will pay, what campuses will look like, how students will learn, and what skills will lead to success […]
Dr. Hans Rosling
Hans Rosling is a well-known public speaker on global change, listed as one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time Magazine. He is Professor of International Health at Karolinska Institute, the medical university in Stockholm, Sweden. He is also “Edutainer” at Gapminder Foundation where he produces educational videos and other educational material […]
Dr. Prachi Srivastava
Dr. Prachi Srivastava is tenured Associate Professor at the School of International Development and Global Studies, University of Ottawa, and Visiting Research Fellow, ISAS, National University of Singapore in the area of education and international development, with a regional focus on South Asia. She holds a doctorate from the University of Oxford. Dr. Srivastava coined […]
Prof. Geoffrey Walford
Geoffrey Walford is Emeritus Professor of Education Policy and an Emeritus Fellow of Green Templeton College at the University of Oxford. He was previously Reader in Education Policy at Oxford, and Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Education Policy at Aston Business School, Aston University, Birmingham. He has academic degrees from Oxford, Kent, London and the Open […]
David Archer
David Archer is Head of Programme Development with ActionAid (www.actionaid.org), a board member of the Global Campaign for Education (www.campaignforeducation.org) and is the elected representative for Northern civil society on the board of the Global Partnership for Education. Trained as a secondary school teacher in the 1980s, he specialised in adult literacy, working on programmes […]
Dr. Yang Liu
Yang Liu is the Director for Education at Beijing Guokr Interactive Information Technology Co. Ltd, with experience organizing science conferences and a passion for interdisciplinary collaborations. She received her B.S. in biology from Peking University, and got her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 2010. She is also a science writer and translator. She […]