Salvador Medina
Salvador Medina is the CEO and Founder of Valhalla, an Innovation in Education consultancy firm and partner of the Digital Innovation Centre, a digital transformation training institution. In May 2017, after 17 years leading the international strategy of Banco Santander in the Higher Education sector as Senior Vice-President, Salvador founded Mycom Interactive, a venture builder […]
Francisco Marmolejo
Francisco Marmolejo is the Higher Education President at Qatar Foundation. Previously, he worked at the World Bank as Global Higher Education Coordinator and as Lead Higher Education Specialist for India and South Asia. At the University of Arizona, he founded the Consortium for North American Higher Education Collaboration, and also served as Assistant Vice President. […]
Francesc Pedró
Dr. Francesc Pedró joined UNESCO’s Education Sector in Paris (France) in 2010, where he leads the work on policy advice, including national policy reviews and comparative research, the monitoring of the right to education and the policy work on technology in education. Prior to that, he worked at the OECD Centre for Educational Research and […]
Nieves Segovia
Educator and expert in educational innovation, Nieves Segovia is president of SEK Education Group, founded in 1892. The group currently caters to over 21,000 students at its ten international schools in Spain, France, Ireland, Qatar and Saudi Arabia, and at Camilo José Cela University. Nieves Segovia chairs the Steering Committee of the Talloires Network of […]
Sharath Jeevan
Sharath is Founder & CEO of STIR Education, which partners with governments to ignite and sustain teacher intrinsic motivation.
Dr. Karen Edge
Dr. Edge recently led the ESRC-funded Global City Leaders Project working with 60+ Generation X (under-40-year old) school leaders in London, New York and Toronto to understand how the new generation of leaders are experiencing their careers, leadership and future aspirations.
Mr. Tom Beresford
Tom leads a portfolio of projects at Innovation Unit, lending his expertise in education innovation and the scale and spread of innovations. His work ranges from new school designs and education technology to whole system transformation, in the UK, Australia and Sub-Saharan Africa.
Anita Chandra
Anita Chandra is vice president and director of RAND Social and Economic Well-Being and a senior policy researcher at the RAND Corporation. She leads studies on civic well-being and urban planning; community resilience and long-term disaster recovery; health policies to advance a culture of health; and child health and development. Chandra has engaged government and […]
Dudley Reynolds
Dudley Reynolds is Co-Area Head of Arts and Sciences and Teaching Professor of English at Carnegie Mellon University Qatar. He served as President of TESOL International Association in 2016-2017, and has been a teacher and researcher of multilingual language learners for over 30 years, working primarily with learners of English. In addition to language education […]
Wadih Ishac
Dr. Wadih Ishac works at Qatar University as an Assistant Professor in Sport Management. His research focuses on the social and political impacts of Mega sport events and foreign investment in sport industry. He earned his MBA in Marketing and Management of Sport at the University of ISC Paris, and his PhD in Sport Management […]