Taanika Shankar
Taanika Shankar is a third year Undergraduate student of Economics and Sustainability. She deeply cares about social and environmental justice and strongly believes in the power of a more inclusive and holistic education. She thinks a good and contextualized environmental education can help the youth better adapt to the climate crisis. Taanika is the co-founder […]
Linzi Boyd
Visionary leader, Linzi Boyd is the woman known for building famous brands. Here to create the face of the modern world she is also a best-selling author, serial entrepreneur and Founder of BoB. By age 24 Linzi had set up and sold two businesses. Her second company was sold to Caterpillar and her third business, […]
Hosni Zaouali
Hosni’s childhood was charged with violence and confusion. Losing his parents at a young age, his time was split between a small village in North Africa and a low-income area in France, he struggled at school. His inability to express himself in either French or Arabic along with a violent neighbourhood and home life, led […]
Caroline Assaf
Caroline Assaf is a social entrepreneur and a sustainability professional with a passion for youth and cities. She is the founder of COCO World, a social initiative empowering people through communications and connections to drive positive change in their lives and their communities. Caroline served as president for Sustainable Cities International and led a government-funded […]
Ahmed Abu Moghessib
Ahmed Abu Moghessib is a 23 year old physicist who had a unique learning experience as Al Fakhoora programme student. He is passionate about writing. He believes that writing helps not just to understand other individuals and communities but also understand ourselves better. He dreams of being an educator where he hopes that his writings […]
Paula Valverde
Master’s Degree (MSc) in Telecommunications Engineering (Radio Communication) from Technical University of Madrid (UPM) and Executive MBA by EOI Business School, is a seasoned leader in the conceptualisation, development and launch of complex digital innovative products, expert in IoT, wireless communications, Artificial Intelligence and data analytics/big data. She creates differentiated products & services leveraging technological […]
Jemilah Mahmood
Jemilah Mahmood began her mandate as Under Secretary General for Partnerships at the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) in January 2016. Her portfolio involves partnership, resource development, strategy, policy, knowledge and global communications. Under her leadership she has also developed a global innovation as well as futures and foresight unit. Before […]
Fred Swaniker
Fred believes that quality leadership is the missing ingredient for driving change in Africa. He co-founded the African Leadership Group – an ecosystem of organizations that aim to catalyze 3million ethical, entrepreneurial African leaders by 2035. Fred earned an MBA from Stanford and previously worked as a management consultant at McKinsey in South Africa. Fred […]
Xymena Salado
Xymena Salado joined The Wellbeing Project (TWP) as Ecosystem and Awareness Manager in 2016. Her work at TWP has allowed her to integrate two of her biggest passions, wellbeing and social change. Before joining The Wellbeing Project, Xymena worked at Ashoka (France), The Ford Foundation (Mexico and Central America), and the Organization for Economic Cooperation […]
Cristina Riesen
Cristina Riesen founded We Are Play Lab Foundation with the mission to accelerate positive change in education. Entrepreneur, startup mentor and lecturer, she is interested in using the power of technology and entrepreneurship to tackle complex societal challenges. Former General Manager for Evernote in Europe, Middle East and Africa, she is an EMScom graduate and a […]