Carmina Bayombong
Carmina is the CEO and Co-Founder of InvestEd- the Philippines’ leading provider of education loans to student dreamers. InvestEd enables the public to invest in loans to unbanked college students, through a pro-poor and pro-student credit scoring algorithm and a borrower success program. With its mission to revolutionize student loans for the developing world, InvestEd […]
Abdulhamid Haidar
Abdulhamid Haidar is the founder and CEO of Darsel, a global education technology nonprofit dedicated to improving math learning outcomes in low-resource settings. Darsel’s personalized learning platform allows students to practice and learn curriculum-aligned math through AI-powered chatbots, which can be accessed on popular messaging platforms such as WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger. Darsel has been […]
Gideon Olanrewaju
Gideon Olanrewaju is a Nigerian educational development practitioner and the Chief Executive Officer and Founder of the Aid for Rural Education Access Initiative (AREAi), a community-based, non-profit organization that expands access to accelerated and alternative learning, employment, and empowerment programs for underserved populations through low-cost technologies. With more than ten years of international experience across […]
Fadia Hamdi
Fadia has over 19 years of experience in IT, digital solutions, marketing, optimization, and digital innovation. She leads the Communications and Marketing team at the Queen Rania Foundation for Education and Development (QRF), where she has been for over 10 years. Before QRF, she held several digital marketing roles, including at Yahoo. Fadia leads national […]
Dr. Sharifa Alghowinem
Dr. Sharifa Alghowinem earned her PhD in Multimodal AI from the Australian National University in 2015, following an MSc in Software Engineering at the University of Canberra in 2010 and a BSc in Computer Applications at King Saud University in 2004. Stationed at MIT’s Personal Robots Group as a research scientist, she develops AI models […]
Simon Graffy
Simon Graffy is a co-founder and the Chief Executive of Inspiring Teachers. He has led Inspiring Teachers full-time since 2019. He holds a master’s in education leadership. He is a Co-Principal Investigator for research grants from the Jameel Poverty Action Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Innovations for Poverty Action Partnership for Technology […]
Dr. Teppo Jouttenus
Teppo Jouttenus is the Vice President of Academic Affairs at Kepler. His career has focused on using learning science and innovative technology to build blended and online learning programs. He was part of the founding team at edX, where he built a team to support all of Harvard’s and MIT’s Massive Open Online Courses and […]
H.E. Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh
Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh is the Honourable Minister for Education of the Republic of Ghana. He is also the Honourable Member of Parliament for Manhyia South Constituency since 2009. Dr. Prempeh is a qualified medical doctor and surgeon. He studied Human Biology and Medicine at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (BSc) and […]
Prof. David Whitebread
David Whitebread, BA, MEd, PhD is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology & Education and Director of the Centre for Research on Play in Education, Development and Learning in the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, UK. He is a developmental cognitive psychologist and early years specialist. Before entering higher education, he taught in early years […]
Jennifer Groff, Ph.D.
Jennifer is an educational researcher, designer, and engineer, whose work focuses on redesigning learning environments and education systems. She is the founder of Learning Futures Global, which supports schools around the world in designing for modern learning. In 2020-21, she was the Research Fellow at WISE, where she led the development and implementation of the WISE […]