Marcello Enea Newman
Marcello Enea Newman is a Programme Officer at Fondazione per la Scuola della Compagnia di San Paolo. He is a specialist in teacher training and facilitation.
Lorenzo Benussi
Lorenzo Benussi is Chief Innovation Officer of the Fondazione per la Scuola della Compagnia di San Paolo, one of the biggest foundation of banking origins in Europe. He is also fellow of the NEXA Centre for Internet and Society at the Polytechnic of Turin, innovation expert for the European Commission and co-director of the Civic […]
Deborah Kimathi
Deborah has led Dignitas’ strategic growth since late 2017, leveraging insight and skills honed as a senior development professional, with 19 years’ experience in the fields of education and child protection in East Africa. As well as overseeing significant organizational growth, Deborah has rallied a global conversation on the role of School Leaders as agents of […]
Suchetha Bhat
Suchetha Bhat is the CEO of Dream a Dream, an organization working towards empowering young people from vulnerable backgrounds to overcome adversity and flourish in a fast-changing world using a creative life skills approach.
Vishal Talreja
Vishal Talreja is co-founder of Dream a Dream, an Ashoka Fellow and Eisenhower Fellow. He is also part of the Founding Team at The Weaving Lab, Catalyst 2030 and Karanga. Vishal also sits on the Board of Goonj and Partners for Youth Empowerment.
Stavros Yiannouka
Stavros N. Yiannouka is the CEO of the World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE), a global think tank of the Qatar Foundation. WISE is dedicated to enabling the future of education through innovation. Its activities encompass research, capacity-building programs, and advocacy. WISE flagship initiatives include an annual series of research publications, a biennial global summit […]
Charles Olumuyiwa Moyela
Charles Moyela is an accomplished, civic-minded, awarding wining communication specialist. He has developed insightful media content, promoted cross-border connections, driven collaboration, optimized strategic communication and brand equity delivery strategies for corporate, non-profit and public sector entities for the past 25 years.
Mr. Charles Leadbeater
Charles Leadbeater is a Nesta fellow and Chair of the Nominet Trust and the mobile education programmes Apps for Good. He has worked around the world on innovation and creativity in both the private and public sectors. He is the author of several international bestselling works and of the first WISE Book Innovation in Education: Lessons […]
Dr. Helen Abadzi
Helen Abadzi is a Greek psychologist who has spent 27 years as a Senior Education Specialist at the World Bank. She has drawn on cognitive psychology and neuroscience to improve the outcomes of educational investments. She regularly monitors the emerging research in these fields and synthesizes relevant findings to explain and predict likely outcomes from […]
Ms Roisin Pelley
Roisin specializes in private education across emerging markets. She is currently based in Asia and has worked extensively in education in Africa, Europe, India, MENA, and Southeast Asia.