Maina Gioko
John Hattie
Maha Essid
Maha Essid is a recent graduate from Northwestern University in Qatar where she majored in Media Industries and Technologies. She’s a Tunisian, Doha-based filmmaker and has worked on numerous film projects in Doha, Tunisia, and Chicago. She is passionate about using digital media to tell stories from her community. She was recently awarded the Communications […]
Sarah Shaath
Sarah Shaath is part of the graduating class of 2020 at Northwestern University in Qatar. She is this year’s recipient of the Dean’s Award and served as the student body president, the captain of the NU-Q’s women’s basketball team and a managing editor for The Daily Q, the student online publication in her senior year. […]
Smita Deorah
At LEAD School, Smita is responsible for education research, product development, and capability building. As the Co-Founder, she has been instrumental in researching and developing the LEAD School system with extensive benchmarking with some of the best education systems of the world and contextualizing them for the unique needs of affordable schools in India. Today, […]
Sean Holroyd
Dr Holroyd has over 20-years-experience in administration and teaching at universities around the world. This has included stints in student administration, residential life, course directorship and curriculum development. He is currently Course Director of the Health, Illness & Disease 1 course that makes up the complete Spring Semester of Year 1 Medicine at WCMQ.
Owen Henkel
As Investment Director, Owen leads Pearson Ventures investment process and manages the portfolio, serving on the board of 5 investee companies. Previously he worked as Portfolio Director and Efficacy Director where he worked across the portfolio to improve financial performance and learning outcomes. Prior to Pearson, Owen worked as a consultant to ed-tech startups in […]
Krista Davidson
Krista Davidson is the Head of Programmes & Operations at Injini – Africa’s only EdTech-specialised startup support organisation. Among other responsibilities, Krista designs and facilitates all support offerings extended to Injini’s 23 alumni companies, plus the six startups currently being incubated. Krista has spent her career working in social impact and has a particular passion for tech […]
Rebeca Grynspan
Rebeca Grynspan was born in San José, Costa Rica. She was unanimously elected as Ibero-American Secretary-General at the Extraordinary Meeting of Ministers of Foreign Affairs held in Ciudad de Mexico, on 24th February 2014. She took office on 1st April 2014 and in 2018 her mandate was renewed for a further four-year term. In 2010 […]
Mikkel Mouritz Marfelt
Dr. Mikkel Marfelt is Director of Investor Relations and New Strategic Initiatives for Labster. From Stanford and Harvard in the West, over Copenhagen University and Copenhagen Business School to Fudan, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Latrobe in the East, Mikkel has both taught and studied at various universities and continues to give lectures. Recently Mikkel […]