Mr. Seongwook Yang
Since 2012 Mr. Seongwook Yang has been developing smart robots for education. He has also worked for the education of the underprivileged in developing countries in order to bridge the digital divide. As a prime example, he conducted targeted teacher training for indigenous communities in Malaysia and has also worked to develop content for children […]
Ms Dijana Pejic
Dijana Pejić was born in 1974 in Banja Luka where she attended primary school. She specialized in electrical engineering while at secondary school. After attending business school in Belgrade, she received a degree in economics from the Faculty of Economics in Kragujevac, Serbia. She has been active in the NGO sector since 1995, when she […]
Peter Mousaferiadis
Peter founded Cultural Infusion in 2002, a global social enterprise that works with schools around Australia, youth and communities to promote cultural harmony for a more cohesive and richer society. Cultural Infusion’s Discovering Diversity education program (http://culturalinfusion.org.au/schools-programs), which comprises a suite of digital education apps and education programs such as school incursions, all-day programs, and […]
Mr. Simon Bailey
Simon is Head of Learning, Research and Network at Aflatoun. His job is to ensure Aflatoun’s programs use the best possible curriculum, that they are having a positive effect on the children they work with and that organizations in AFLATOUN’s network are learning from their experience. Prior to working at Aflatoun, he worked in the […]
William Zhou
William Zhou is the CEO of Chalk, an education technology company that helps K-12 educators with their curriculum and planning. Zhou has been passionate about entrepreneurship from a young age, founding his first company in high school. He launched his first Internet business in 2010, which he sold at the age 18 during his first […]
Prof. Juliana Najem
Prof. Juliana Najem is of Lebanese origin and was born in Colombia. She returned to her mother country in 1997. She founded PRODES NGO with a group of Lebanese women from the diaspora with the aim of fostering job opportunities in the villages and contributing to the country’s social and economic development. Since 2000, she […]
Dr. John Mighton
Dr. John Mighton is a playwright turned mathematician and author who founded JUMP Math as a charity in 2001. His work in fostering numeracy and in building children’s self-confidence through success in math has been widely recognized. He has been named a Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneur of the Year, an Ernst & Young Social Entrepreneur […]
Mr. Victor Lyons
Victor Lyons is an expert in PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder). His experience with crime victims and war/terrorism victims led him to set up groundbreaking delivery units for PTSD sufferers in the UK and in the USA which have trained hundreds of therapists and changed the lives of thousands of clients. He arrived in India […]
Mr. Sharath Jeevan
Sharath is Founder & CEO of STIR Education, which partners with governments to ignite and sustain teacher intrinsic motivation. Sharath previously served as Founding CEO of Teaching Leaders, an initiative to raise attainment in the UK’s most disadvantaged schools, which is expanding to 700 schools nationally and has attracted over $25 million in scale-up funding. […]
Ms Fadimata Alainchar
Fadimata Alainchar has dedicated her career to development and humanitarian work focusing primarily on education, child protection and gender. After many years of work both in the field and at a national level as a Teacher and Informal Education Specialist, she joined Plan International in 1994 to implement an informal education program for out-of-school children […]