Charles Leadbeater is a fellow of the National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts and a co-founder of the public service design agency Participle. He has worked with governments, cities and companies around the world on innovation and creativity as well as writing several international best sellers, the latest of which is We-Think:The power of mass creativity. His 2004 report “The Pro Am Revolution”, for the think tank Demos, was selected by The New York Times as one of the best ideas of the year and his paper “Personalization through Participation” helped start the debate about personalized learning. A member of the TED Global Brains Trust, his TED talks have been downloaded hundreds of thousands of times.  His report on education – “Learning from the Extremes”, in conjunction with Cisco - looks at novel approaches to educational innovation being pioneered by social entrepreneurs working in slums and favelas in the cities of the developing world. He is the author of the WISE Book, Innovation in Education: Lessons from Pioneers around the World (Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing, 2011).