Dr. Ross Aikins
Dr. Ross Aikins is an Adjunct Associate Professor who joined the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education (Penn GSE) in 2013. His primary research interests focus on behavioral trends in college student health and wellness, institutional responses to crises, and, most recently, student use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools in postsecondary […]
Deena Newaz
Deena manages the Emerging Leaders and Learners’ Voice programs at the World Innovation Summit for Education. She also supported the curation of WISE@ events in New York and Paris. Prior to working at WISE she was a participant on the WISE Learners’ Voice program. She has previously worked at the Ministry of Education in Qatar, […]
Pukhraj Ranjan
Pukhraj Ranjan is an Indian education & innovation advocate based out of Helsinki, Finland. She is the Head of Community & Media at HundrED, a not-for-profit working to seek and share inspiring innovations in global education. With 9 years of experience in the education and development sector, Pukhraj essentially believes in holistic education, lifelong learning […]
Diana Al-Dajani
Diana Al-Dajani is the founder and CEO of eduTechnoz, an online curriculum that gamifies and innovates the way students are taught Arabic . She has over ten years experience in online and B2B business development & international scale-up strategy. She was listed in the Global Index of 50 Makers & Shakers in EdTech, won multiple […]
Samantha Butters
Sam is CEO of the Fair Education Alliance (FEA), a coalition of 120 organizations working together to tackle educational disadvantage in the UK. She brings ten years of experience in strategy, business and organizational leadership and is committed to bringing her skills and experience to having a social impact and creating a fairer world. She […]
Rajika Bhandari
Rajika Bhandari, Ph.D., is an international higher education expert with extensive executive and management experience in research and program evaluation in the nonprofit, private and higher education sectors. For over a decade Dr. Bhandari shaped and guided the Institute of International Education’s (IIE) research, evaluation and thought leadership activities and directed the IIE Center for […]
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Malgorzata Gruchola
Nisreen Elsaim
Nisreen Elsaim is a Sudanese youth climate activist and climate negotiator. She is on the UN’s Youth Advisory Group on Climate Change after a nomination by the Pan African Climate Justice Alliance. She is also president of the Sudan Youth for Climate Change and was an organizer of the 2019 Youth Climate Summit.
Siddhant Sachdeva
Siddhant Sachdeva is the co-founder of Rocket Learning, where he leads operations and behaviour change media. He previously worked as a project leader at Boston Consulting Group and has experience in large-scale public and private sector transformation projects. He holds an MBA from IIM Calcutta, a BTech from IIT Delhi, and a master’s in international […]