Ms Sarah DeLeeuw
Sarah DeLeeuw is the Manager of Online Projects at the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, where she oversees the development of content for Illuminations – designing resources for teaching and learning mathematics and advocating for teachers by providing professional development. Sarah is also a Ph.D. student in Mathematics Education Leadership at George Mason University, with […]
Mr. Paul Taryam Ilboudo
Paul Taryam Ilboudo, OSEO Representative in Burkina Faso, has a Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondies (postgraduate degree) in Education and Linguistics. He has worked as a primary school teacher, a certified secondary school teacher and a researcher in Applied Linguistics and Andragogy. The author or co-author of several publications on adult literacy and applied linguistics, he designed […]
Ms Isobel Bryce
Isobel Bryce, head teacher at Saltash.net Community School, has taught English in the UK for 28 years. She is committed to making a difference in the lives of young people in the rural South West and enthusiastic about the potential of information and communication technologies to break down learning barriers and open up new horizons.
Mr. Michael Gallagher
Michael Sean Gallagher, the Education Coordinator for the academic database JSTOR, develops training in a variety of electronic and print formats, including digital videos, online instruction, electronic webinars, and remote and in-person classroom presentations. He has years of experience in education and has conducted educational workshops at New York University, Princeton University, the University of […]
Ms Lisa Petrides
Lisa Petrides, PhD, is President and founder of the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME), an independent educational research institute. ISKME’s work includes research and innovative field-building initiatives in the area of knowledge sharing in education. As leader of the OER (Open Educational Resources) Commons initiative, she helped facilitate the creation […]
Mr. Manoj Kumar
As CEO of the Naandi Foundation, Manoj Kumar feeds over a million hungry children every day, runs 1,726 schools guaranteeing quality education to 100,000 children, provides safe drinking water to 3 million people and works with 12,000 indigenous farmers to export over a million kilos of coffee every year. A Robert McNamara Fellow of the […]
Mr. Edgar Stach
Edgar Stach, Associate Professor at the University of Tennessee’s College of Architecture and Design, previously taught at the Bauhaus University Weimar in Germany. His current research focusses on new construction materials and methods. The founder of UTZero, a team developing zero-energy building technologies, and Director of the Institute for Smart Structures, he is also a […]
Ms Maurita Weissenberg
Maurita Weissenberg holds a Diploma in Senior Primary Education from Cape Town Teacher’s College and has been a teacher for over 25 years, specialising in special needs education and children with learning difficulties over the past 15 years. While doing volunteer work with grade five pupils between 1998 and 2000, she realised the importance of […]
Mr. Steve Dudenhoefer
Steve Dudenhoefer went to Guatemala in 1990 to find out why many of his employees – indigenous Mayans from Guatemala – worked in South Florida for decades and sent every penny they earned back home. He met people who lived on $1 a day, children without schools, mothers without vital medicine for their babies. Deeply […]
Mr. Neeraj Agarwal
A Mechanical Engineer trained at the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, Neeraj Agarwal worked in various industries before joining NIIT, a leading talent training organisation, in 1993. He headed NIIT’s global Content and Publishing group, which develops eLearning content for customers worldwide; led some of the company’s largest projects; and was instrumental in setting […]