Prof. Marwan Awartani
Prof. Marwan Awartani is the Minister of Education, president of the Palestine Academy for Science and Technology, former President of Palestine Technical University Kadoorie and a professor of mathematics. Dr. Awartani is the chairman of the Palestinian European Academic Cooperation Council and secretary general of the Learning for Wellbeing Foundation. He serves as a member […]
Prof. Jian Liu
Jian Liu’s major appointments are Doctoral Supervisor, Chief Expert and Vice Dean of Collaborative Innovation Center of Assessment toward Basic Education Quality, Vice Chairman of Education and Culture Committee of the Central Committee of the Jiu San Society and Dean of China Academy of Education Innovation.
Louka Parry
Louka Parry is CEO and Founder of The Learning Future, an organisation that supports schools, systems and companies to thrive in tomorrow’s world. He is also Founding Executive, Karanga: The Global Alliance for SEL and Life Skills. A former teacher, he became a school principal at only 27 years old and was named Inspirational Public […]
Leslee Udwin
Leslee Udwin is the Founder and Executive Chair of the global not-for-profit education organization, Think Equal. Think Equal is both a movement and a program. Its vision is to create a safe, free, and equal world. It seeks to realize this vision through implementing its holistic and comprehensive Social and Emotional Learning Program in every […]
Joysy John
Joysy is the Director of Education at Nesta. She is an entrepreneur, investor & advisor who has launched five startups. Previously she was the CIO of Ada, the National College for Digital Skills and before that Senior Director at EF Education First . Prior to joining the education sector, she spent a decade in banking […]
David Ng
Associate Professor David Ng is Associate Dean, Academic Quality at the National Institute of Education (NIE), Nanyang Technological University Singapore. He provides overall leadership, management and improvement in academic, student, and programs quality. He also leads in the planning, review and effective implementation of the Strategic Planning Academic Quality’s initiatives, research and evaluation studies that […]
Andrew Frishman
In 2002 Andrew heard a student describe unique transformational learning experiences at The Met High School in Providence, RI, the “mothership” of the Big Picture Learning Network. That fall, Andrew joined the Met as an Advisor (Teacher) with a 9th grade advisory group through their graduation in 2006. He moved to California supporting development of […]
Aaron Eden
Aaron Eden has been transforming education since way back when he hacked his own high school experience. He has been designing and facilitating novel learning experiences with and for others ever since. Having started an instructional technology company while earning his Bachelor’s degrees at university (B.A. Anthropology; B.S. Geology) and culminating his formal education with […]
Charlène Friang
Charlène has been working on the education of tomorrow for the past 7 years, teaching her first class at the age of 23. Her whole journey is articulated around one ambition: reducing inequality in education. At a very young age, Charlène was accepted to the French Ministry of Education’s competitive teacher program. She taught her […]
Dr. Chris Diane Coughlin
Dr. Chris Diane Coughlin received her Bachelor’s degree from University of Oregon, USA, in Psychology and both her Master’s and Ph.D. from Oregon State University, USA, in Human Development and Family Sciences. Currently Dr. Coughlin is an Associate Professor at Qatar University in the College of Education’s Early Childhood Education program. She has spent […]