Dr. Stephen Jull
Stephen is the Global Head of AI and Educational Technology at Teach For All. Following an early career teaching in remote communities of Canada’s far north, Stephen earned his PhD at the University of Cambridge as a Commonwealth Trust Scholar and has spent over 15 years building teams and strategic partnerships to deliver educational technology […]
Manail Ahmed
Manail Anis Ahmed is a committed educator in emerging technologies—including AI, biotechnology, and their impact on business and society. She has worked to build educational institutions and human capital development strategies in the Middle East and South Asia for two decades. Manail is a former Visiting Lecturer at Princeton University and now teaches Biotechnology Entrepreneurship […]
Jyothi Vynatheya Oberoi
Jyothi is currently serving as Global People Partner, where she drives internal people strategy within the organization. She also co-leads global engagements across two core areas—Monitoring, Evaluation, & Learning and Talent & Leadership. Her work at Dalberg over the last decade has spanned multiple sectors, including global public health and nutrition, energy, education, skilling, investing […]
Professor Logan Cochrane
Logan is a Professor in the College of Public Policy at HBKU. For the last 20 years, he has worked in universities and non-governmental organizations internationally, including in Afghanistan, Benin, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda. Logan has served as a director […]
Aly Jetha
Aly Jetha, a 2018 recipient of the WISE Award, is the CEO of Big Bad Boo Studios, an educational entertainment company that creates cartoons and cartoon-based curricula to teach social-emotional learning (SEL) and 21st-century skills. Big Bad Boo’s cartoons—produced by Emmy Award-winning creatives in collaboration with curriculum and child development experts from Sesame Street—have been […]
Professor Hanada Taha Thomure
Dr. Hanada Taha is a Professor of Arabic Language Education and Director of the Zayed Center for Arabic Language Education and Research at Zayed University. She previously served as Acting Dean and Associate Dean of the Bahrain Teachers College at the University of Bahrain, and was a professor of Arabic and Director of Arabic Language […]
Gigi Wang
Gigi Wang is an Industry Fellow and Faculty at the UC Berkeley Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship, where she teaches the Berkeley Method of Entrepreneurship bootcamp and lectures in executive classes. She is also the Managing Partner at MG-Team, which delivers entrepreneurship and innovation programs. Gigi has taught innovation and entrepreneurship across Europe, Asia, the Americas, […]
Dr. Ghulam Omar Qargha
Ghulam Omar Qargha is a fellow in the Center for Universal Education at Brookings and an education, research, and program evaluation expert with 20 years of overseas experience designing, managing, implementing, and evaluating international education programs. Qargha’s expertise is in policy analysis, program design, education transfer, and research on teacher education, curriculum development, educational delivery, […]
Aida Nuranova
Aida is a Professional Learning and Development Expert at the Center for Innovation in Learning and Teaching at Nazarbayev University, with over five years of experience in higher education. She leads and supports a range of professional development initiatives aimed at enhancing teaching excellence and pedagogical innovation within the university community. Her core interests lie […]
William Jiménez Leal, Ph.D
William Jiménez Leal, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Psychology at Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Universidad Nacional de Colombia and earned his Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from the University of Warwick, followed by postdoctoral fellowships at Brown University and […]