Arnab Barua
Arnab has more than 6 years of work experience and currently leads the Strategic Planning and Development efforts at Mantra4Change. He also works closely with Mantra’s incubation program, Edumentum, which focuses on building the capacity of social entrepreneurs working in diverse contexts in the field of systemic transformation. Prior to Mantra, he worked with Amazon […]
Daniyal Zia
It always baffled me, even as a young child, that in the mornings we would drop my sisters off at a public school while I was dropped off at one of the country’s most expensive private schools. I couldn’t make sense of it. Both my sisters were just as hardworking and smart as I was, […]
Fernande Raine
Fernande Raine, Founder of The History Co:Lab is a systems-change entrepreneur committed to strengthening democracy with the power of better history teaching. After spending much of her undergraduate years in Germany on student government and democracy building efforts in the former Soviet Union, she completed a PhD in History at Yale. She then joined McKinsey and after a […]
Adewale Olasupo
Adewale Olasupo is a student of English and literature at the University of Abuja. He started his advocacy as a teenager in a disadvantaged flooded community in Ibadan, Nigeria, where he worked with One African Child Foundation, together with some NGOs and the state government to address the people’s needs and educate them about proper […]
Hind Al Khulaifi
Hind Al Khulaifi is a passionate learner who has worked on educational reform projects in her previous position at the Ministry of Education and Higher Education. She co-founded Maktaba Children’s Library and has set up the Children and Young Adults department at Qatar National Library. Aside from her current role at Qatar National Library, she […]
Fadi Abughoush
Mr. Fadi Abughoush has worked in the field of Public Education at Chicago Public Schools (CPS) for the past 14 years. He played a vital role in creating, managing, and expanding the World Language curriculum at Lindblom Math & Science Academy. As the department chair, he oversees the Arabic and Chinese language program and is […]
Leena Zaher
Leena Zaher is a Senior Education Specialist with Education Above All Foundation where she leads the programmatic and monitoring and evaluation functions within the foundation’s Innovation Directorate. She is passionate about designing and evaluating impactful education programs. She holds a Master’s degree in International Education Policy from Harvard Graduate School of Education and a Bachelor […]
Susan Douglas CBE
Since leaving school headship in 2006, Susan has held a number of key roles with a variety of national and international organisations. In her current position as Senior Adviser at the British Council, Susan provides sector expertise and advice to a wide number of educational programmes involving ministries of education, school leaders and teachers across […]
Alhassan Susso
Alhassan Susso is a world-renowned educator, author and speaker who has devoted his career to transforming the lives of young people facing difficulties. He is the author of a motivational memoir, The Light of Darkness: The Story of the Griots’ Son, which traces his journey to America as a nearly blind teenager and his trials and triumphs […]
Tony Calderbank
Mr. Tony Calderbank studied Arabic and Persian at Manchester University. He taught Arabic at the International Language Institute in Cairo and at Salford and Manchester Universities where he also taught translation and translation theory. From 1990 to 2000 he was lecturer in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the American University in Cairo. […]