Bonnie Lei
In addition to founding Climate Caravan, Bonnie Lei is the project manager for Microsoft’s AI for Earth program. She studied Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University and Global Affairs at Tsinghua University as an inaugural Schwarzman Scholar. She is based in Seattle, Washington, where she serves on the city’s Urban Forestry Commission and can […]
Dr. Samer Bagaeen
Dr. Samer Bagaeen is currently the Founding Professor of Planning at the University of Kent, United Kingdom. Prior to this, he worked with 100 Resilient Cities, an organization pioneered by the Rockefeller Foundation in New York, as Associate Director with the City Relationships team. He established the planning school in Brighton in 2008 and before […]
Mrs. Joëlle Dumas
Joëlle Dumas is the Founder and Director of Ecole Claire Fontaine, a 30-year-old Art, Language and Nature school for young children near the ocean in Venice, California. Madame Dumas works for the benefit of children with the Children’s Committee of the Venice Neighborhood Council and as Co-Founder and Chair of the Venice Chamber of Commerce […]
Leonardo Párraga
Leonardo Párraga is a global citizen acting in a local context. A Colombian activist who believes in the value of systemic change through sustainable peace, increasing community well-being, and building strong networks. Passionate about the arts, alternative development, and constant learning. A graduate of Harvard University’s Master of Education with wide experience in nonviolence resistance. […]
Rana Dajani
Dr. Rana Dajani holds a Ph.D. in molecular biology from the University of Iowa. She was an Associate Professor and former Director of the Center of Studies at Hashemite University, Jordan. She is also a former visiting professor at the Yale Stem Cell Center. Her research focuses on genome-wide association studies concerning diabetes and cancer […]
Brandon Busteed
Brandon Busteed leads Kaplan’s work serving U.S. colleges and universities, leveraging the organization’s highly diversified, global educational offerings and insights. His mission is to help U.S. higher education adapt, grow and thrive. Prior to Kaplan, Busteed was Global Head of Public Sector at Gallup – serving higher education, government and foundations. In that role, Busteed led […]
Mr. Richard Geary Horwitz
Mr. Richard Geary Horwitz has devoted the past 40 years to improving the quality of life of deaf children and youth in Asia. Through the programs, schools, and digital resources developed to educate deaf children and youth and train teachers, thousands of children have had the opportunity to become literate, be educated, learn sign language, […]
Mr. Boris Bulayev
Co-founder and Executive Director Boris Bulayev has been leading Educate! for nearly ten years, taking just one year off to work in the private sector at startup incubator Loeb Enterprises. As Executive Director, Mr Bulayev has driven Educate!’s extraordinary growth from a volunteer-run scholarship program for a small number of refugees to a scalable, high-impact […]
Ms Habiba Mohammed
Ms Habiba Mohammed is the Co-Director of Centre for Girl-Child Education (CGE) in Kaduna state, Nigeria. Habiba has participated in numerous conferences, seminars and workshops, including the 2014 Girl Effect University workshop and the 2015 London Trust Women Conference. She is an alumna of the US Department of State’s Teaching Excellence and Achievement Programme (TEA) in 2014. […]
Mr. Borna Scognamiglio
Borna Scognamiglio is the CEO and co-founder of Pixis. A former researcher at Paris-Sorbonne University, he holds a double Bachelor’s degree in Cultural Heritage and Cultural management, a Master’s degree in History as well as certificates in entrepreneurship from ESCP Europe and Design thinking from École Centrale, Lyon. A member of the UN Sustainable Development […]