Jasmin Higo
Jasmin Higo is currently pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and International Management at the Technical University of Applied Sciences in Ingolstadt, Germany. She is a first-generation Arabic-speaking German Muslim with Eritrean and Ethiopian roots. She is a recipient of more than six national and international scholarships, including the “Deutschlandstiftung Integration” which is under […]
Yalda Hakim
Yalda Hakim is well-known as the presenter of the BBC World News’s flagship program Impact. She has worked for the BBC presenting and reporting since 2012, delivering hitting journalism on many world issues. In October 2013 Yalda and her team won a United Nations Association of Australia Media Award in the category of Best Television […]
Max Tegmark
Max Tegmark is a professor doing physics and AI research at MIT, and advocates for positive use of technology as president of the Future of Life Institute. He is the author of over 250 publications as well as the New York Times bestsellers “Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence” and “Our […]
Jacksón Smith
Jacksón Smith is a Co-Founder and the CTO of the Learning Economy, a modern infrastructure to fuel tailored learning and solve the skills gap. Jacksón built augmented reality applications for street workers to see beneath the ground, inventory control systems for satellites to safely reach the stars, and algorithms for insurance companies to quantify the value […]
Asna Siddiqui
Asna Siddiqui is a sophomore at Georgetown University, where she studies International Affairs with a major in International Economics. She has been a volunteer for the Best Buddies’ program under Shafallah for 1 year, where she organizes and participates in activities with primary and secondary school children with disabilities or challenges. She is passionate about […]
Thakur S. Powdyel
Thakur S. Powdyel is an educator by choice, conviction and passion. As the country’s first democratically elected Minister of Education, he moved Bhutan towards fulfilling the MDGs and the country’s constitutional mandate for education. His major interests include institutional integrity, national self-respect, moral literacy and gross national happiness. Powdyel’s vision of holistic education as expressed […]
Asma Muhammad
Asma Muhammad is a senior IB student from Doha British School (DBS) that resides in Qatar currently, but aims to pursue higher education in Canada. She’s an individual who has shown devotion to leadership throughout her school years, acquiring numerous positions. She was appointed as her school’s Model United Nations (MUN) Secretary-General and this year […]
Marwan Khraisheh
Marwan Khraisheh is the Senior Planning and Research Director at HBKU at Qatar Foundation overseeing portfolios spanning research, innovation, and digital learning. Prior to joining QF, he was the Founding Dean of Masdar Institute, in partnership with MIT, and before that was the Secat Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies at the University of Kentucky. He […]
Dimitri Christakis
A pediatrician, researcher, and parent, Dimitri Christakis, is the George Adkins Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Washington, Director of the Center for Child Health, Behavior and Development at Seattle Children’s Research Institute, and an attending pediatrician at Seattle Children’s Hospital. Professor Christakis graduated from Yale University, the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, […]
Doreen Bateyunga
Doreen Bateyunga is a young Tanzanian female with a passion for education. She holds a B.A in International Relations from the University of San Diego and an M.A from University College London (UCL). She credits her uncommon experience in education for her mission of wanting to afford the same quality of learning to as many […]