David Julien
Akshay Chaturvedi
Akshay is the creator and driving force behind one of India’s fastest growing startups LeverageEdu – which empowers students across India to choose the best-matched career & higher education options, with one-touch access to personalised mentors and leading global universities. The company initially began as a higher education mentorship marketplace in Silicon Valley’s Draper University’s 2015 cohort, & […]
Julia Freeland
Julia Freeland Fisher is director of education research at the Clayton Christensen Institute. She is the author of Who You Know: Unlocking Innovations That Expand Students’ Networks (Wiley, 2018). The book focuses on emerging tools and practices that leverage technology to radically expand who students know – their stock of “social capital” – by enhancing their access […]
Flavio Bassi
Flavio Bassi is a global Leadership Group Member of Ashoka and Vice President for Latin America. He currently leads Ashoka’s Education and Childhood strategy. Previously, Flavio served as regional director of Ashoka in Southern Africa. With degrees in Biology and Social Sciences and a Master’s in Social Anthropology, he also founded and served as executive director […]
Diana Wells
Diana Wells is President Emerita of Ashoka. As President, she led Ashoka’s global expansion and the significant increase in the number of Fellows, while helping to shape overall strategy and operations. In earlier roles at Ashoka she implemented one of the first standard assessment tools for systems change impact. Dr Wells has a Ph.D in anthropology […]
Bo Stjerne Thomsen
Dr. Bo Stjerne Thomsen is the Vice-President and Chair of Learning through Play in the LEGO Foundation. The function of the Chair is to be the expert at the highest level to the executive leadership on how children and adults learn through play, and providing consultation at the bilateral, regional and multilateral levels to international […]
Sébastien Turbot
Sébastien Turbot is the CEO and Chief Strategist of eko6, a Canada-based consultancy that guides governments, cities, businesses and civil-society in creating engaging platforms that turn ideas into action. Sébastien is currently a research fellow at WISE (World Innovation Summit for Innovation) and developing a living lab on Learning Ecosystems and Cities. The lab will […]
Sir Fazle Hasan Abed
Born in 1936, Sir Fazle Hasan Abed completed his secondary education in Dhaka and went on to study at the University of Glasgow. He trained as a management accountant in London and came back to his homeland to eventually lead the finance division of Shell Oil Company there. He returned to the UK during the 1971 Bangladesh […]
Dr. Madhav Chavan
Hailing from a background in chemistry, having acquired a PhD. in the US, Madhav worked in adult literacy from 1989-1994, inspired by the National Literacy Mission. In 1994, UNICEF in Mumbai charged him with creating a ‘societal mission’ to universalize primary education. As a result, he co-founded Pratham in 1994-95 in Mumbai, but is now […]
Ann Cotton
Ann Cotton is Founder and President of Camfed, an international non-profit organisation tackling poverty and inequality in sub-Saharan Africa by supporting girls to go to school and succeed, and empowering young women to step up as leaders of change. Camfed’s goal is to replace the existing cycle of poverty and inequality with a new cycle […]