Mr. Jonathan Penson
Jonathan Penson is the Norwegian Refugee Council’s Education Adviser for the Greater Horn of Africa Region, and is based in Nairobi. He has experience in education policy, planning and programme management, in the public, private and NGO sectors, at international, national and district levels. He is an experienced team leader with particular expertise in education […]
Ms Suha Tutunji
Suha is the director of the Jusoor Refugee Education program in Lebanon. She has an MA in school management and supervision. Her first classroom experience was as an English teacher. She has 25 years of experience in education, with 18 years as a school administrator. She worked as principal of the elementary school at Quaker-run […]
Dina Pasic
Dina Pasic is a human rights activist and educator who co-founded Second Tree, a grassroots NGO that works with refugees in Northern Greece. She has a master’s degree in Human Rights from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a certificate in Education in Emergencies from the University of Geneva. Before starting Second […]
Mr. Rachid Zammar
Rachid Zammar is a research professor at the Mohammed V University, Rabat. His research focuses on entrepreneurship, management of social projects and sustainable development.
Farah Mallah
Farah’s strong interest in economic and social development in the Middle East has led her to focus her studies and work on poverty eradication and education development. Driven by the belief that at the heart of most, if not all, issues is unequal access to opportunities. Farah recently graduated from Georgetown University, School of Foreign […]
Yuxuan Chen
CHEN Yuxuan graduated from Tsinghua University with a Bachelor’s degree in English. She is currently working in an underdeveloped village in Hunan Province with Serve for China, an NGO that fosters entrepreneurship and public service in rural regions. Yuxuan is helping villagers start agricultural cooperatives and explore e-commerce business opportunities, while also striving to preserve […]
Leonora Dowley
Leonora is the Country Director for the Varkey Foundation in Ghana, overseeing two donor funded education projects in the country. She was previously the Project Manager for Varkey Foundation’s teacher training pilot project in Ghana, which intends to improve the professional practice of 4,000 teachers in government schools over 2.5 years. Over the past year, […]
Dr. Saverio Krätli
Saverio Krätli is a freelance researcher/consultant specialising in the interface between producers, science, and policy, with a focus on pastoral production strategies. Saverio studied Philosophy at the University of Bologna, Italy; Anthropology of Development at the University of Sussex, UK; and Development the UK Institute of Development Studies (IDS), with a doctorate research on livestock breeding and production […]
Michael Dawson
Mike Dawson (CEO of UstadMobile) has been working in Education Technology in developing countries for over 8 years and has 15 years of software development experience. He is the CEO of Ustad Mobile ; an open source edtech startup that helps track school attendance and deliver learning content to offline low cost devices in India, […]
Dr. Eduardo José Padrón
An American by choice, Eduardo J. Padrón arrived in the United States as a teenage refugee in 1961. Since 1995, he has served as President of Miami Dade College (MDC), the largest institution of higher education in the United States with more than 165,000 students. He is credited with elevating MDC into a position of […]