Vahakn Papazian
Vahakn Papazian is the Director of Product Engineering at the TUMO Center for Creative Technologies, where he leads technical innovation in educational technology. Born in Barcelona, Spain, Vahakn earned his degree in Computer Science from Harvard University. A passionate product engineer who believes in building teams that are greater than the sum of their parts, […]
Dr. Mahmud Shihab
Dr. Mahmud Shihab is the Vice President for Educational Services at the International College (IC) in Beirut, Lebanon, with over 30 years of experience as an educator, consultant, and leader across K–12 and higher education. He has led transformative initiatives in technology integration, curriculum design, and innovation, including spearheading the creation of IC’s STEAM Innovation […]
Rose A. Dodd
Rose A. Dodd is a strategic leader mobilizing Africa’s higher education sector at a critical moment, when the continent’s youth population is rapidly growing, yet tertiary enrolment remains the lowest in the world. As Executive Director of The Education Collaborative, a pan-African initiative launched by Ashesi University in 2017, Rose leads a peer-driven network that […]
Dr. Natalia Lara Nieto- Márquez
Natalia Lara Nieto Márquez, Ph.D. in Education Sciences, holds a distinction in Industrial Doctorate and received the Extraordinary Doctorate Award from Camilo José Cela University (UCJC). She is a lecturer at UCJC in Educational Research Methodology, as well as Innovation and Implementation of Educational Technologies and Artificial Intelligence in teaching through active methodologies. She also […]
Michael Forshaw
Michael is an experienced education technology leader with over 19 years of experience dedicated to deploying, managing, and evaluating EdTech in schools. He is the CEO of EdTech Impact, where he leads the vision, strategy, and evidence framework behind the sector’s largest EdTech discovery and evaluation platform. In addition to his role at EdTech Impact, […]
Lasse Leponiemi
Lasse Leponiemi is a global education leader with a deep commitment to shaping the future of learning through impactful solutions. As co-founder and current chair of the HundrED Foundation, Lasse brings over a decade of experience supporting education innovations in more than 110 countries. Today, Lasse is focused on leading a new philanthropic support model […]
Jalal Charaf
Mr. Jalal CHARAF is the Chief Digital and AI Officer of UM6P and Managing Director of École Centrale Casablanca (ECC). Before joining UM6P and ECC, he served as Senior Advisor for North Africa at IFC (International Finance Corporation / World Bank Group). He worked at OCP Group as Head of Farmer Solutions within the SBU […]
Dr. Robert Bianchi
Dr. Robert Bianchi is an Associate Professor of English at VCUarts Qatar, where he has taught courses in composition, literature, linguistics, and religion since 2011. His research interests include online learning, religiolinguistics, code-switching, language and identity, and corpus-based discourse analysis. His doctoral work in applied linguistics at Lancaster University explored the vitality of 3arabizi as […]
Professor Raian Ali
Dr. Raian Ali is a Professor at Hamad Bin Khalifa University, the UNESCO Chair in Digital Technologies and Human Behaviour, and a Visiting Professor at Bournemouth University, UK, and the Education University of Hong Kong. He earned his PhD from the University of Trento, Italy, in 2010, and has held academic positions at the University […]
Greta Rossi
Greta Rossi is a changemaker involved in multiple not-for-profit initiatives. She is the co-founder of Recipes for Wellbeing and a facilitation consultant at ChangemakerXchange and The Facilitators. She was also the lead facilitator for the WISE Emerging Leaders Programme from 2019 until 2023. She is a fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of […]