Andrea Escobar Vila
Andrea Escobar Vilá is a psychologist with an emphasis in strategic marketing and consumer psychology. For more than 15 years his work has been linked to the educational sector from different fields. He began in the publishing sector, leading the development of school content, and later served as manager of a technology for education venture […]
Faye Hobson
Faye Hobson is a program manager at Salzburg Global Seminar where she supports the planning and implementation of programs and initiatives including the Culture, Arts, and Society series; the Education for Tomorrow’s World series; the Salzburg Global Forum for Young Cultural Innovators; and Karanga: The Global Alliance for Social and Emotional Learning and Life Skills. […]
Grace Maina
Currently Deputy Director and Curriculum Specialist in charge of Special Needs Education (SNE). Pertinent and Contemporary Issues (PCIs)/Cross Cutting Issues in the curriculum and Alternative Provision in Basic Education (APBET). She is an Education and Life Skills Education Consultant , Trained Disaster Risk Reduction Educator (IGAD member States),Value-Based Education and Parental Empowerment and Engagement Coordinator […]
Clare Shine
Clare Shine was appointed vice president and chief program officer of Salzburg Global Seminar in 2012. She is responsible for multi-year program strategy, design, partnerships and implementation in Salzburg and around the world; next-generation leadership development; communications and marketing; and the Salzburg Global Fellowship which straddles nearly 170 countries. Prior to joining Salzburg Global, Clare […]
Staneala Beckley
Dr. Beckley is a Sierra Leone educationist and Chair of the Sierra Leone Teaching Service Commission (TSC), since its inception in 2015. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Durham University and master’s and doctorate degrees in psycho-pedagogy from the University of Ibadan. A qualified and trained teacher, she taught English and French at secondary level […]
Olli Pekkah Heinonen
Olli-Pekka Heinonen is Director General at the Finnish National Agency for Education. Before his current position he worked as a State Secretary at the Ministry of Finance of Finland, and over the years he has had a number of positions of trust serving the society in a wide scale. Previously Heinonen acted as a State […]
Sungsup Ra
Mr. Ra is Chair of the Education Sector Group in ADB. Since joining ADB in 2001, he worked as Director, Pacific Strategy and Special Operations, Pacific Department, Senior Advisor to the Managing Director General, and Deputy Country Director for Bangladesh and Nepal Country Offices. Prior to ADB, he has a broad range of experience working […]
Sara Ruto
Sara has served as director/CEO of the PAL Network since its inception in 2015. Prior to serving in this position, Sara initiated the citizen led process in Kenya in 2009 that currently operates as Uwezo and thereafter served as Regional Manager of Uwezo East Africa at Twaweza, a citizen-driven initiative in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, […]
Eddie Dutton
Eddie Dutton joined ECW in September 2019 as Emergency Manger- Education based in ECW’s Geneva Office. He has spent the last 10 years working with UNESCO and UNICEF in both humanitarian and development contexts specifically in Bangladesh, Jordan, Lebanon, and Tanzania. He brings to ECW a professional and technical background in refugee education, education sector […]
Stephane Coillet-Matillon
I am old enough that my first browser was Netscape – I started using the internet when the web was a couple of years old and Yahoo! was the biggest search engine around. That was about 30 years ago, and today still only the richest half of the world’s population has reliable internet access. The bottom half, in the […]