David Osher
David Osher is Vice President and Institute Fellow at the American Institutes for Research. Osher’s expertise includes social and emotional learning, school climate and conditions for learning, school discipline and safety, school and community mental health services and interventions, culturally responsive approaches, collaboration, implementation science, and the science of learning and development. He has led […]
Stephen Katende
Former Building Tomorrow fellow Stephen Katende recently received international recognition from the U.K.’s royal family for his work through Kisoboka Africa to encourage parents to save, borrow and invest in their children’s education. Stephen is a recipient of the prestigious 2018 Queen’s Young Leader Award, which recognises exceptional young leaders from the Commonwealth, making lasting […]
Amir Fehri
Amir Fehri is Tunisian, he is 15 years old and he has been appointed as the Ambassador of Francophonie in the world. He published 4 books at the age of twelve, which gave him 25 international prizes in literature as the ARTS AND LETTERS OF FRANCE INTERNATIONAL PRIZE, 2014. Mr. Fehri speaks seven languages (Kurdish-French-Chineese-English-German-Arabic-Latin) […]
Olivia Cayley
Olivia leads the Institute’s Compass Project, supporting young women in communities affected by deprivation, hate crime, and extremism, to develop a stronger sense of empowerment, identity and belonging. Her work has included the design and implementation of the three project components; including group mentoring sessions with professional female mentors, university workshops and international videoconferences for […]
Alexandra Bennett
Alexandra Bennett is Deputy Director Learning and Outreach at Qatar Children’s Museum Project, working with a team to devise and deliver creative programmes as part of audience research and prototyping for a museum in development. Alexandra has extensive experience of working with audiences in both formal and informal contexts. Previous roles include Young People’s Programmes […]
Folly Bah Thibault
Folly Bah Thibault is a journalist and Principal Presenter for Al Jazeera English, based in Doha, Qatar. She joined the network in 2010, having previously worked at the French news channel, France24 in Paris and Voice of America in Washington D.C. Folly has covered some of the world’s biggest news stories including the 2004 tsunami, […]
Marcus Alexander
Marcus Alexander, PhD, is a Yale University scientist working on the biological foundations of social networks, field interventions, and network experiments. He is also the CEO and Co-Founder of GroupWise, developing heterogenous AI-human systems that make teams and organizations work better together. Research page
Mahira Ahmed Miyanji
Development Professional, Motivational Speaker, Trainer, Volunteer, Women Rights and Girls Education Activist and Youth Leader with more than 7 years of experience in Education, Sports for Development Training’s, girls education and sports promotion and training delivery especially using play & sports based learning approaches, child safeguarding, gender equality, and youth leadership. Founder of a volunteer […]
Aida Sagintayeva
Doctor Sagintayeva started her professional career from being a faculty at Taraz State University named after M.H.Dulati. She was a Vice-Rector for International Cooperation at the Eurasian National University. She has been involved in educational research projects at the Ministry of Education and Science on gearing Kazakhstan’s higher education system towards the European three-tiered degree […]
Mark McKnight
Mark McKnight has been working with Nicholas Christakis since 2009, first at Harvard Medical school and now in the Human Nature Lab at Yale University. Mark is in charge of developing the lab's software tools used to collect experimental and observational data about social networks including Breadboard, a software platform for developing experiments on networks […]