James S. Gordon
James S. Gordon, MD, author of Transforming Trauma: The Path to Hope and Healing, is a Harvard-educated psychiatrist, and the founder and CEO of the nonprofit Center for Mind-Body Medicine. Dr. Gordon is internationally recognized for using self-awareness, self-care, and group support to heal population-wide psychological trauma. He is a clinical professor at Georgetown Medical […]
Fatima El Mahdi
Fatima first joined the Qatar Foundation’s Pre-University Education division as a part of THIMUN’s regional office in Qatar team in 2016 after 13 years of teaching in schools around the world, working with schools to build curriculums and collaborating on development projects with NGOs. She is now the Manager of Student Enrichment for PUE. Fatima […]
Ahmed Al Malki
Ahmad is a specialist in youth training and motivation with a focus on mass communication techniques and communication skills. He is actively involved in radio and television presenting and currently serves as a project manager and member of the Akhlaquna Award team. Ahmad is dedicated to benefiting young people and building their confidence through his […]
Kim Moloney
Kim Moloney is an Assistant Professor in the College of Public Policy at Hamad Bin Khalifa University. Her latest book, Who Matters at the World Bank, was published by Oxford University Press in 2022.
Yanis Ben Amor
Professor Ben Amor led programs in Uganda and India to develop and allow access to Social and Emotional Learning curricula to children and adolescents. He has created mental health programs for school children in low-resource settings, and Digital Education tools to monitor children’s school absenteeism in India using fingerprint technology. He has also launched an […]
Geoffrey Simon Richmond
Dr. Richmond designs technology-based interventions to deliver educational content to underserved populations in low resource environments. He has helped create ICT tools in a diverse array of technical areas including delivering high fidelity mental health training, helping teachers collect actionable feedback on student performance to improve their instruction, teaching reading to the deaf, and training […]
Alejandra Ycaza
Alejandra is the leader of Institutional Development at Fundación Reimagina. An initiative that works to accelerate real systemic educational transformation in Latin America. Specifically, she works in the development of Reimagina with a focus on matching what different organizations offer to the actual demands in local communities. She also works as a Senior Vetting Associate […]
Lauren Goodlad
Lauren M.E. Goodlad is Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Rutgers, the chair of the interdisciplinary Critical AI @ Rutgers initiative, and the editor of Critical AI (published by Duke University Press).
Hana Elshehaby
Hana Elshehaby is a Youth Advocate for Education Above All and serves as the Co-Chair of EAA’s YAP program’s second cohort. She is also a research assistant for the Middle East Council on Global Affairs’ Foreign Policy and Security Program. Hana received a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service with a specialization in International Politics […]
Emi Koch
A former professional surfer, Emi is a social ecologist, Fulbright Fellow, National Geographic Explorer, and a WISE Emerging Leader (2023). Emi utilizes community-based participatory research approaches to understand the impacts of fisheries scarcity on fishing communities’ well-being and resilience, focusing on youth and rural education’s role in constructing optimistic futures. Emi is the co-founder of […]