Aline Sara
Aline Sara is the co-founder and CEO of NaTakallam, an award-winning social enterprise that hires refugees and displaced persons and their host community members as online tutors, teachers, and translators. With a background in journalism, Aline is working to disrupt the ways in which we typically think of humanitarian aid and leverage the digital economy […]
Tatiana Alexeev
Tatiana Alexeev is a project manager with over 8 years of experience in K12 digital education. Tatiana is managing the “Tekwill in Every School” program that over the span of 3 years became one of the most impactful and successful educational projects in the country. The program is recognized by the Ministry of Education, International […]
Paul Collard
Paul Collard is the Chief Executive of CCE, the organization responsible for delivering the British government’s major creative educational programs for young people in England. He has 25 years’ experience of working in the arts and is an expert in delivering programs that use creativity and culture as drivers of social and economic change, most […]
Mr. Jeremy Lachal
After earning a Master’s degree in International Affairs from Sciences Po Paris (Paris Institute of Political Studies), Jérémy Lachal co-founded Libraries Without Borders / Bibliothèques Sans Frontières in 2007 alongside French Historian Patrick Weil. As its Executive Director, he has been leading the NGO that has become one of the main organizations supporting libraries and […]
Mr. Antonio Purón
Mr. Antonio Purón, founder of Inoma, is an independent professional with research activities on public policy issues related to agriculture, poverty and migration. He is a member of the board of directors of Nadro, of Banco Santander México, of Santander Zurich México and of Microfinanciera Progresemos. He is also a member of the patronages […]
Rey Mendoza
Rey is an Electronics Engineer who has enjoyed a long and successful career with global tech firms such as Ericsson, Astra Telecoms (Mitel), and Achilles. More recently he has partnered with entrepreneurs all over the world to build websites and digital marketing platforms to support their online businesses, startups, and eCommerce initiatives. Driven by a deep […]
Mr. John Rendel
John Rendel is the Founder and CEO of PEAS, a rapidly growing and multiple award winning social enterprise that widens access to secondary education in Africa. John studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at New College, Oxford where he was picked out as a FreshMinds “One to Watch”. A trip during a university vacation to East […]
Veronika Zonabend
Veronika Zonabend is the founding partner and the Chair of the Board of Governors of UWC Dilijan College in Armenia. She is actively involved in philanthropy, focusing primarily on the promotion of global education. Together with her husband, Ruben Vardanyan, she is the founder of the RVVZ Family Foundation and the IDeA Charitable Foundation which […]
Daisy Mertens
Daisy Mertens is a Dutch primary school teacher. In 2016, she was the winner of the 2016 National Primary Teacher of the Year in the Netherlands and she was among the top 10 finalists for the Global Teacher Prize 2019. She works in a large community-based school in Holland, with 440 students and up to […]
Leonora Dowley
Leonora is the Country Director for the Varkey Foundation in Ghana, overseeing two donor funded education projects in the country. She was previously the Project Manager for Varkey Foundation’s teacher training pilot project in Ghana, which intends to improve the professional practice of 4,000 teachers in government schools over 2.5 years. Over the past year, […]