Priyanka Arya
Priyanka Arya is the Director & COO of the Centre for Teacher Accreditation (CENTA) Pvt. Ltd., the world’s largest independent professional platform for teachers, based out of India. A certification trademark in India and benchmarked against several global standards, CENTA® works with 1.9 million teachers from over 100,000 schools, focusing on certification of competencies, upskilling, […]
Dr. Shibani Khanra Jha
With over 15 years of experience in teaching, research, and administrative roles, Prof. Jha’s expertise lies in water resources, environmental engineering, renewable and geothermal energy, and teaching and learning in higher education. She has supervised PhD, postgraduate, and undergraduate students and actively contributes as a technical reviewer for various reputed journals. She also serves as […]
Hamdi Tabbaa
Hamdi Tabbaa is the Co-Founder and CEO of Abwaab. Previously, he was the General Manager at Uber for MENA in the Levant & GCC. Under his leadership, he grew the business multiple times over in 4+ years and worked with the government to pass ridesharing regulations in Jordan—the first of their kind across the region. […]
Dr. Mirka Martel
Mirka Martel is IIE’s Head of Research, Evaluation & Learning (REL) and a recognized researcher and author on international education issues spanning global academic mobility, international leadership and scholarship, and impact and evaluation. Her academic and professional focus is on advancing the role of research and evaluation in international education, using data for impact and […]
Will Straw
Will Straw is CEO of King’s Trust International, where he leads the organization’s work delivering education, employability, and enterprise programmes to young people around the world in partnership with local delivery partners. King’s Trust programmes currently operate in 25 countries, supporting around 100,000 young people every year to gain life skills, find meaningful work, or […]
Dr. Seungah Sarah Lee
Dr. Seungah Sarah Lee is an Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship and Organizations at HEC Paris, Doha. Her research broadly explores how global models, scripts, and norms are transmitted and adapted to influence organizational forms, practices, and change. She is particularly interested in how nation-states and organizations negotiate the changing demands of a globalized world and […]
Anousheh Ansari
Anousheh Ansari is CEO of the XPRIZE Foundation, the world’s leader in designing and operating incentive competitions to solve humanity’s grand challenges. Ansari, along with her family, sponsored the organization’s first competition, the Ansari XPRIZE — a $10 million competition that ignited a new era for commercial spaceflight. She captured headlines around the world when […]
Mo Gawdat
Mo Gawdat is the former Chief Business Officer at Google X, a five-time international bestselling author, founder of the One Billion Happy movement, and co-founder of Emma.love. With a career spanning 27 years at IBM, NCR, Microsoft, and Google, Mo helped launch close to half of Google’s global operations, and later led business strategy at […]
Laila Lalami
Laila Lalami is an award-winning novelist and essayist whose work explores belonging, migration, and the meaning of citizenship. Born and raised in Morocco, educated in Great Britain, and now based in California, she brings a transnational perspective to questions of identity and displacement. She is the author of six acclaimed books, including The Moor’s Account, […]
Ella Al Shamahi
Ella Al-Shamahi is an explorer, palaeoanthropologist, and evolutionary biologist turned television presenter, known for fronting science, archaeology, and natural history programs on the BBC, Channel 4, and National Geographic. With an adventurous spirit and a passion for fieldwork, she specializes in expeditions to politically unstable and remote regions, including Yemen and Somaliland. In 2015, she […]