Steve Cumming
Steve Cumming is Associate Director of the Secondary Education and TVET Technical Expertise Group at Mastercard Foundation, where he leads a team focused on youth and skill development. Over the past seven years at Mastercard Foundation, Steve has developed a portfolio of youth economic development and workforce programs for young people, including most recently, Hanga […]
Dr. Shannon May
Dr. Shannon May is the President and Co-Founder of NewGlobe, the largest supporter of technology-enabled schools across Africa. NewGlobe supports national and state governments and communities by creating powerful technology-enabled education systems. NewGlobe has unequalled experience in transforming educational outcomes at speed and at scale, delivering increased learning gains in often marginalized and under-served communities. […]
Victoria Basma
As the Head of EdTech at the World Innovation Summit (WISE), Victoria has been responsible for driving forward progressive EdTech related policy and research. In partnership with Qatar Foundation stakeholders and Qatar’s Ministry of Education (MOE), Victoria has been part of a collaborative effort to establish Qatar as an EdTech hub within the Middle East […]
Mona Mourshed
Dr. Mona Mourshed is the President and founding CEO of Generation: You Employed, a global non-profit. Generation trains and places disconnected youth and mid-career learners in jobs that would be otherwise beyond their reach. After six years of operation, it is live in thirteen countries and 130 cities, with 37,000+ graduates. Generation has an 80% […]
Dr. Spencer Striker
Spencer Striker, PhD has been creating transformative digital learning experiences for over 20 years. As Professor of Digital Media Design at Northwestern | Qatar, he develops award-winning projects spanning VR simulations (Plague of Athens VR), interactive history apps (Empires & Interconnections), and STEM literacy games (Dr. Sara: Disease Detective). His work, funded by NSF, NEH, and […]
Minister Slim Khalbous
Slim Khalbous has been the Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research since September 2016, and was the Interim Minister of Education from April, 2017 to September, 2017. He was the Dean of IHEC – University of Carthage, the leading business school in Tunisia from 2011 to 2016 during which he embarked on a major […]
Lila Pieters
Ms Lila Pieters is the Representative of UNICEF in Tunisia. Before this she was the Senior Policy Advisor and Deputy Representative of UNICEF in Brussels in charge of partnerships, technical management, political orientation and programming. She was also the Deputy Representative of UNICEF in Turkey, in charge of the general coordination and execution of the […]
Salma Damak Ayadi
Salma Damak Ayadi is an Associate Professor in Accounting and Academic Dean at IHEC Carthage, Tunisia. She received her PhD at the CREFIGE, Paris Dauphine University, France. Her research interests are related to audit, voluntary financial and non-financial reporting and international accounting standards. Her research papers have been published in several international journals. She is […]
Ilhem Mansour
Ilhem Mansour is currently a senior ELT inspector. Throughout her teaching career she has taught English to young learners, secondary school students and engineering students. She has taken part in preparing training modules about different topics as well as action-researches dealing with a variety of issues on diverse topics related to methodology in English language […]
Zeinab Badawi
Zeinab was born in the Sudan and moved to London at the age of two. Her father, prominent Sudanese – Mohammed-Khair El Badawi, was involved in pre-independence politics in Sudan. Her great-grandfather was Babikir Badri, pioneer of women’s education and founder of the Ahfad women’s university in Sudan. Zeinab studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oxford […]