Benoit Wirz
Benoit Wirz is a partner at Brighteye which he helped launch in 2017. Brighteye Ventures is Europe’s leading edtech focused venture capital fund, backing companies that leverage technology to help people learn and grow. Brighteye portfolio companies include: Ornikar – France’s largest driving school, Aula a digital campus for universities, Epic an online library for kids in over 90% of US elementary […]
Fiona Mavhinga
Fiona Mavhinga was one of the first young women who completed her education with CAMFED’s support. Today, Fiona is a lawyer and leads on the strategic development of the CAMFED Association, the Association founded by former CAMFED clients who organize and act on behalf of girls and young women and contribute to their communities. Through the […]
Chelsea Waite
Chelsea Waite is a senior researcher at the Center on Reinventing Public Education. Along with partners at Transcend and dozens of other collaborating organizations, she leads the Canopy project to build better collective knowledge on innovation from a diverse set of schools around the country. Before joining CRPE, Chelsea was an education research fellow at […]
Amira Yahyaoui
Amira Yahyaoui is the founder and CEO of Mos.com Mos was created to bridge the gap between citizens and government in a way that works with technology today. Backed by Sequoia Capital, Mos’s first product is to give students easier access to $135B in financial aid. Born and raised in Tunisia, Amira is multi-awarded human rights activist […]
Catalina Lopez-Correa
Dr. Catalina Lopez-Correa is a leading advocate for genomics research and translation and an international leader in using innovation to solve world challenges. As Chief Operating Officer at Ruta N Medellin, she is leading the operations of a world-class innovation hub that uses cutting edge technologies and approaches to solve the city’s most pressing social […]
Surya Karki
Surya was born and brought up in poverty by a single mother in a village where education was a rare sight and schooling was a 2.5 hours walk to-and-from the school. He left his family and his village at 8 years old to study in the capital of Nepal and went on to study at […]
Meagan Fallone
Meagan Fallone is an entrepreneur, a designer and a passionate mountaineer. Bringing these diverse talents together as the CEO of Barefoot College International, she exemplifies exceptional vision and commitment to social leadership while advocating for strong professional practices within a Social Innovation context. Her commitment is to empower illiterate and semi literate rural women across the […]
Jaya Ramchandani
Jaya graduated in astronomy and science-based business from Leiden University in the Netherlands in 2012. Since then she’s been worked on several informal learning projects from making astronomy kits to organizing large festivals. Jaya was born and raised in Liberia, West Africa then lived in Mumbai, the Netherlands, Goa, Shanghai, and France. She’s a third […]
Danilo Padilla
Mr. Danilo Padilla was appointed Education Programme Specialist, UNESCO Office for the Gulf States and Yemen in October 2019. In this capacity, he leads and supervises the Office’s Education team, promotes UNESCO’s Education Programme within the GCC and Yemen through the planning, implementation and monitoring of activities and projects aimed at responding to strategic needs […]
Saran Stewart
Saran Stewart, PhD is a Senior Lecturer of Comparative Higher Education and Deputy Dean for the Faculty of Humanities and Education at the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus. She is a Salzburg Global Fellow and the recipient of multiple awards including the 2019 Vice Chancellor Award for Excellence from the University of the West […]