Zeena Ojjeh
Zeena is originally Syrian-Palestinian but spent the majority of her upbringing in the United States. She lived in Palo Alto, California and then moved to Amman, Jordan. From there she graduated from the American Community School in Amman. Zeena decided to attend Northwestern University in Qatar because she wanted to stay in the region and […]
Suad Alhawashi
Suad Alhalwachi has established Education Zone in march 2003, the company received its accreditation from the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research and became very active in promoting New Zealand Education Systems in all gulf countries. Since 2005 the company has begun to send students to all parts of the world. Before becoming the […]
Mr. Juan María Segura
Juan Maria Segura is an advisor, consultant and expert in innovation and education management, with a large professional experience that combines leading roles and responsibilities in education projects and institutions with a solid academic profile and teaching expertise. He acted as Academic Market Senior Director for Cengage Learning & National Geographic Learning (2012-2013). Before that, […]
Mr. Maria A. May
Maria A. May is the senior program manager for the BRAC Social Innovation Lab and also oversees financial education, research, and development for the BRAC Microfinance Programme. She is based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. She co-authored Making Tuberculosis History: Community-based Solutions for Millions and regularly blogs on 59minutedevelopment.blogspot.com. Prior to joining BRAC in 2011, she spent three years working with Harvard’s Global […]
Mr. John Rendel
John Rendel is the Founder and CEO of PEAS, a rapidly growing and multiple award winning social enterprise that widens access to secondary education in Africa. John studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at New College, Oxford where he was picked out as a FreshMinds “One to Watch”. A trip during a university vacation to East […]
Mr. Andrew Yu
Andrew Yu is the initiator of the 1KG More campaign, a well known movement engaging travelers to carry books and materiel and do service projects in rural China. Now Andrew is running a social enterprise focusing on instructional design. The product, 1KG Box, with the easy-to-use design and rich content, makes everyone a teacher to cultivate […]
Yuan Gu
Mr. Yuan Gu, founder of Aha School of Social Innovation and founding partner of Aha Education Impact Accelerator, is one of the key figures in social innovation and social entrepreneurship in China. He is a mentor and angel investor of education startups, initiator of multiple social venture programs, member of board of directors of several […]
Ms Shahida Saleem
Ms. Shahida Saleem is a highly experienced, award winning, social entrepreneur. She is an internationally recognized professional experienced in building sustainable social development programs using private sector partners and emerging technologies. She has co-founded and managed three social enterprises (and remains on their Boards) and understands intimately the process of taking ideas to market and […]
Dr. Alexander Romiszowski
Dr. Alexander Romiszowski holds advanced degrees in both Engineering and Education and a PhD in Educational Technology applied to Mathematics Teaching. He has worked in over 20 countries as researcher, teacher, consultant and “hands-on” practitioner in the areas of Human Resources Development (HRD), Organization Development (OD), Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET), Open and […]
Mr. Rahim Kanani
Rahim Kanani is President of Rahim Kanani Media Group, Inc, a strategy, communications and partnerships firm that serves mega-corporations, foundations, and global development agencies including Cisco, Johnson & Johnson, Fox Pictures, the World Bank, the United Nations Foundation, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), and the UN Development Programme (UNDP), among others. Rahim also serves as […]