Ms Brenda Erlinger
Brenda Erlinger directs program development for DIL, a non-profit organization that provides quality education for students and teachers, especially girls and women in developing areas of Pakistan. With a background in elementary education, ICT in education and international development, she works closely with implementing teams to design innovative approaches that build teacher capacity and enhance […]
Mr. Christopher Pruijsen
Christopher Pruijsen was the youngest-ever President of Oxford Entrepreneurs when he attended the University of Oxford, where he matriculated at age 17. He co-founded AMPION (http://ampion.org) across Africa and the Middle East (formerly StartupBus Africa) after having co-founded Founderbus UK in 2012. AMPION is organising 4 Venture Bus hackathons across 16 African countries with 160 […]
José Ignacio Gonzalez-Aller Gross
José Ignacio González-Aller has served as Managing Director of Fundación Codespa since 2005. His key assignments have been the expansion and consolidation of the foundation´s activities in 20 countries through the promotion of numerous public-private partnerships for development. Mr. González-Aller has led the internal reorganization of the institution, its internationalization process, and the implementation of […]
Mr. Tomi Alakoski
Tomi Alakoski is a 42-year-old Executive Director from Helsinki, Finland. He currently works at the Economic Information Office. Before joining the Economic Information Office 14 years ago, he worked as an elementary school teacher in the city of Helsinki. Mr. Alakoski has an academic background in pedagogics and education, with a Master of Arts in Education […]
Ms Flavia Shaw-Jackson
Flavia Shaw-Jackson was born in South Africa. Of French nationality, she studied in Brussels where she received a B.A. in Economics. She started her professional life in 1990 in the private sector as the director of a trading company. She has always felt deeply affected by the suffering and distress experienced by many children in the world. FACE […]
Ms Caroline Aebersold
Caroline Aebersold has worked in leadership positions in the not-for-profit sector for over 15 years and is CEO of The Song Room. She is also the Deputy Chair of Suicide Prevention Australia, having served on the board for several years. As a psychologist she specialized in suicide prevention in a range of roles including counseling, […]
Ms Alice Waters
Ms Waters, restaurateur, author, activist, and proprietor of Chez Panisse Restaurant and Café in Berkeley, California, is a pioneer of a culinary philosophy based on using the freshest seasonal organic products. Throughout the world, Ms Waters is lauded as one of the earliest champions of the local-food movement. Ms Waters established the Chez Panisse Foundation […]
Prof. George Miley
George Miley is professor of astronomy at Leiden University. His research field is distant radio galaxies. He initiated LOFAR, a new-generation Dutch-European radio telescope and has participated in several space missions, including Hubble. Mr Miley begun Universe Awareness in 2004 with the support of a professorship awarded to him by the Royal Netherlands Academy of […]
Mr. Ramji Raghavan
Founder and Chairman of Agastya International Foundation, Mr Ramji Raghavan leads the world’s largest hands-on Mobile Education Program for economically disadvantaged children and teachers, created in 1998. Prior to this, he worked as a senior executive in financial service organizations across the US, the UK, Europe, Caribbean countries, and Asia. Mr Raghavan was a member […]
Ms Zhennan Huan
Ms. Zhennan Huan, a former journalist and now the director of the education product department, is one of the founders of Netease Open Course who joined Netease in 2009. She undertakes the general operation work of three educational products, namely the Netease Open Course, Cloud Classroom, and China University MOOC. Ms. Huan has 5 years […]