Manzoorul Abedin
Dr Manzoorul Abedin has a strong background in supporting teacher professional development and research-informed practice. He works across several British universities including as a Senior Lecturer at University of West London and as an affiliate Teaching and Research Fellow at Canterbury Christ Church University and University of Cambridge. He has mentored and supervised several teacher/practitioner research projects, facilitated pedagogic innovation workshops […]
Matthew Swift
Matthew Swift is the Co-Founder, Chairman & CEO of Concordia. Since its inception in 2011, Matthew and his business partner, Nicholas Logothetis, have grown Concordia into a reputable and impactful nonpartisan organization dedicated to actively creating, elevating, and sustaining cross-sector partnerships for positive social impact. Matthew’s passion for entrepreneurship, global affairs, and collaboration has led […]
Veronika Zonabend
Veronika Zonabend is the founding partner and the Chair of the Board of Governors of UWC Dilijan College in Armenia. She is actively involved in philanthropy, focusing primarily on the promotion of global education. Together with her husband, Ruben Vardanyan, she is the founder of the RVVZ Family Foundation and the IDeA Charitable Foundation which […]
Amy Tran-Calhoun
Amy Tran-Calhoun is the daughter of Vietnamese refugees. She completed her BA in Sociology and Masters in Social Welfare at the University of California, Berkeley. Following her passion to advocate for the rights of underrepresented communities, Amy began her career in labor and national student organizing. In 2014, Amy joined Education Opens Doors (EOD), a […]
Christine Renaud
Christine is the CEO and co-founder of e180, a B-corporation created in Montreal with the purpose of reinventing the way humans learn across the world to make it self-directed, collaborative and experiential. To do so, e180 created Braindate, a concept used, among others, by Airbnb, Salesforce, C2 Montreal, the Cannes Lions and TED, to generate […]
Michael Pollack
Michael Pollack co-founded and is the Chief Investment Officer of Destrier Capital, a public equities investment firm. From 2001 to 2008, Pollack was one of two general partners at Glenhill Capital. In 2009, he established and now runs the SCA Charitable Foundation. SCA is active in venture philanthropy, primarily in India, where it collaborates with […]
Alexandra Mitsotaki
Alexandra Mitsotaki is a profound believer in civil society mobilisation and in citizen empowerment, participation & responsibility. -1998 Founder of ActionAid Hellas (the biggest Greek Development NGO) -Since 2009 President the Hellenic Cultural Centre in Paris. -2014 Co Founder of Action Finance Initiative, the first microcredit organisation in Greece. -Since 2018 Co-founder & President of the […]
Savy Lach
Savy leads Aide et Action International’s Southeast Asia and China region, providing overall leadership to ensure the whole team has everything they need to function and deliver results with a high degree of transparency and accountability, across programmes. He has proven strategic and implementation ability and strong conceptual and analytical skills, including proposal development, complex […]
James Jones
Jim Jones manages community investment programs at the Exxon Mobil Corporation and oversees ExxonMobil Foundation’s major grant-making programs in global health, education and women’s economic opportunities. Prior to work in the private sector, Jones was the founding executive vice president at the Vaccine (now GAVI) Fund. He also was vice president of programs and policy […]
Matt Serletic
Songwriter, producer, label owner, and music technology entrepreneur. Multiple Grammy, ASCAP, AMA, and CMA Award-winner. On a mission to empower everyone to have a musical voice and express themselves through sound, much like we all do through photos and videos every day.