Aleu Garang
Dr Aleu Garang is legal practitioner with extensive experience in international law, administrative law, and is a peace and security specialist of preventative diplomacy, mediation, conflict prevention and peace building. Garang holds LLM in Laws, a PhD in International Law, and a Diploma & MA in Peace and Security Studies. Dr Garang served in public […]
Prerna Kalra
Prerna is an educator, with experience spanning across India’s rural and urban low-income communities. By focusing her efforts to improve teaching and learning practices in her country’s public schools, she has played a key role in shaping and influencing children, educators, communities and programs. Prerna is a coach, educator, facilitator and curriculum designer currently responsible […]
Jessica Posner Odede
Jessica joined Girl Effect as CEO in 2019 and is an internationally recognised social entrepreneur and thought-leader. In 2009 she co-founded Shining Hope for Communities (SHOFCO). Based in Kenya, SHOFCO catalyses large-scale transformation in urban slums by providing critical services, community advocacy platforms, education and leadership development for girls and women. In August 2018, SHOFCO […]
HH Sheikha Intisar AlSabah
Peace ruling supreme in the Arab world is HH Sheikha Intisar AlSabah’s life vision. From her native Kuwait, this vision is a light that guides her work. HH Sheikha Intisar can be seen in refugee camps across MENA, offering solace to Arab women suffering from war trauma. Currently, she serves as a member of the […]
Gizem Konus
Gizem Konus specializes in Social and Clinical Psychology. For over ten years she has been building psychosocial ecosystems, counseling individuals for healthy well-functioning communities, teaching sustainable well-being and presenting evidence-based knowledge on preventative and protective mental health interventions. Currently she is the clinical coordinator, supervising clinical teams and coordinating all clinical processes at Maya Vakfi […]
Kate Donaghey
Kate Donaghey is currently the Executive Vice President of Policy at LearnLaunch, a non-profit organization located in Boston, Massachusetts serving the education ecosystem in the New England region and beyond. Prior to this, Kate was part of the Massachusetts Teachers Association where she was a Government Relations Specialist helping to lead some of the most impactful and […]
Rama Kayyali
Rama Kayyali is CEO and co-founder of Little Thinking Minds, an award-winning education-technology company creating online resources and platforms to improve learning and retain literacy in the Arabic language. A recent winner of the Queen Rania Award for Education in Entrepreneurship, Little Thinking Minds platforms are used by over 160,000 students in over 150 schools […]
Saisabel Alruwaidan
An architect and youth activist who believes in quality education and youth power, she is currently leading the education and higher education sector team in the Jordanian Youth Government project, and has recently finished leading the Youth Charter in the Arab Region Taskforce in cooperation with UNFPA-MENA region office, she is an active founding member […]
Jeffrey Dow
Jeffrey Dow is the Regional Education Technical Advisor for the Asia Region for the IRC since April 2020, covering education emergency response and developmental programming in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Myanmar and elsewhere in the wider region. Previously, Jeffrey was the Senior Regional Education Advisor for the Middle East for Save the Children (2017-2020). Jeffrey has […]
Zabihullah Ghazawi
Mr. Zabihullah Ghazawi is the founder and Executive Director of “Community Action for Healing Poverty Organization (CAHPO)”, which implements various programs including educational projects in Afghanistan. His educational background is Economic Studies and a master’s degree in Conflict-logy and peacebuilding from UNITAR. He has worked for many national and international organizations for more than 20 […]