WISE 2011 Speakers and Chairs
WISE Speakers and Chairs came from more than 40 different countries, representing different sectors and areas of expertise. They contributed to lively debate and discussion throughout the Summit.
- Sir Fazle Hasan ABED, Founder and Chairperson, BRAC, Bangladesh
- Ms. Carolyn ACKER, Founder, Pathways to Education, Canada
- Ms. Shabnam AGGARWAL, Founder, The Teach Tour, USA
- Ms. Denise AGUIAR ALVAREZ, Director, Bradesco Foundation, Brazil
- Dr. Khalid ALKHATHLAN, Dean, College of Business Administration, King Saud University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
- Mr. Essa AL MANNAI, Director, Reach Out To Asia (ROTA), Qatar
- Dr. Naif AL-MUTAWA, Creator, THE 99; Clinical Director, The Soor Center for Psychological Counseling and Assessment, Kuwait
- Dr. Ibrahim Saleh K. AL-NAIMI, Chairman, the Doha International Center for Interfaith Dialogue (DICID); former President of Qatar University, Qatar
- H.E. Dr. Tayseer AL-NOAIMI, former Minister of Education, Jordan
- Ms. Sameera AL QASSIMI, Managing Director, Shafallah Center for Children with Special Needs, Qatar
- Ms. Jawhara Hassan AL-THANI, Student, Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar; Participant, WISE Learners' Voice, Qatar
- Prof. Jophus ANAMUAH-MENSAH, Executive Chair, TEACHER EDUCATION IN SUB SAHARAN AFRICA (TESSA), Ghana
- Dr. Jean-Eric AUBERT, Senior consultant; Coordinator, WISE Haïti Task Force, France
- Prof. Marwan AWARTANI, Professor of Mathematics; Acting president of Al-Quds University; Secretary General of Universal Education Foundation, Chairman of Elham Palestine and Chairman of the Arab Foundations Forum, Palestine
- H.E. Hamid Reza HAJI BABAEI, Minister of Education, Iran
- Ms. Aïcha BAH DIALLO, Chair, Forum of African Women Educationalists (FAWE); Chair, the Network for Education for All in Africa (REPTA); former Minister of Education, Guinea
- Prof. Richard BARANIUK, Director and Founder, Connexions; Victor E. Cameron Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University, USA
- Sir Michael BARBER, Chief Education Advisor, Pearson; former Head of the Global Education Practice, McKinsey, UK
- Ms. Carol BELLAMY, Chair of the Board of Directors, Global Partnership for Education ; former Executive Director, UNICEF, USA
- Mr. Tom BENTLEY, Deputy Chief of Staff to Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard; Past Director, Demos, Australia
- Prof. Mark BERENDS, Professor of Sociology and Director, Center for Research on Educational Opportunity, University of Notre Dame, USA
- Mr. Desmond BERMINGHAM, Director, Education Global Initiative, Save the Children International, UK
- Mr. James BERNARD, Global Director, Partners In Learning, Microsoft Corporation, USA
- Dr. Rajika BHANDARI, Deputy Vice President, Research and Evaluation, IIE, India/USA
- Dr. Jamshed BHARUCHA, President, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art; cognitive neuroscientist, USA
- Mr. Ed BICE, Chairman & CEO, Meedan; Co-Chair of the United Palestinian Partnership (UPP), USA
- Prof. Russell BISHOP, Chair Professor of Māori Education, University of Waikato, New Zealand
- Dr. Jean Michel BLANQUER, Director General for Schools, Ministry of Education, France
- Mr. Vasiliy BOGIN, Founder and Director, the New Humanitarian School, Russia
- Mr. Özgür BOLAT, Researcher and Faculty Member, Bahcesehir University; Researcher, Leadership for Learning Center, University of Cambridge; Columnist, Hurriyet Newspaper, Turkey
- Professor Oumarou BOUBA, Vice-Chancellor, University of Yaoundé I; Traditional Ruler, Cameroon
- Mr. Luc BRONNER, Editor in Chief, Society and Politics, Le Monde, France
- Rt. Hon. Gordon BROWN MP, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- Mr. Graham BROWN-MARTIN, Founder, Learning Without Frontiers (LWF), UK
- Senator Cristovam BUARQUE, Member of the Brazilian Federal Senate; former Minister of Education, Brazil
- Mr. Farooq S. BURNEY, Director, Al Fakhoora, (Qatar), Canada
- Mr. Martin BURT, Founder and CEO, Fundación Paraguaya; Executive Director Teach A Man To Fish, Paraguay
- Ms. Laurie BUTGEREIT, Java developer, Internet of Things Engineering Group; principal Technologist, Meraka Institute, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), South Africa
- Mr. Philippe CAYLA, CEO, Euronews, France
- H.E. Luc CHATEL, Minister of Education, France
- Mr. Mushtaq CHHAPRA, Chairman and founding Director, The Citizens Foundation (TCF), Pakistan
- Prof. Yin Cheong CHENG, Vice President (Research and Development) and Chair Professor of Leadership and Change, The Hong Kong Institute of Education; President-elect, World Educational Research Association (WERA), China
- Dr. Sungchul CHUNG, Senior Research Fellow Emeritus, Science and Technology Policy Institute (STEPI), Republic of Korea
- Mr. Paul COLDITZ, CEO, Federation of Governing Bodies of South African Schools (FEDSAS), South Africa
- Mr. Stephen COLE, Presenter and Correspondent, Al Jazeera English, UK
- Mr. Paul COLLARD, Chief Executive, Creativity, Culture and Education (CCE), UK
- Dr. Rana DAJANI, Founder and director, “We Love Reading”; Director, Center of studies, Hashemite University, Jordan
- Mr. Wayne DAVIES, HR Director, Middle East, North Africa & Turkey, GE, UK
- Mr. Martín Federico DE ANGELIS, Student, National University of Buenos Aires; Participant, WISE Learners' Voice, Argentina
- Ms. Gloria DE SOUZA, Founder, Parisar Asha Environmental Education Centre; Member of the Board of Directors, Ashoka Foundation, India
- Mr. Bruno della CHIESA, Senior Analyst and Project Manager, Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI), OECD, France
- Ms. Cecilia d’OLIVEIRA, Executive Director, MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW), USA
- Professor Christian DEPOVER, Professor of educational sciences at the University of Mons, Belgium
- Dr. Cheick Modibo DIARRA, Astrophysicist; President, Microsoft Africa; Founder, Pathfinder Foundation for the education and development of Africa, Mali
- Dr. Ann DOUCETTE, Director, The Evaluators' Institute; Director, Midge Smith Center for Evaluation Effectiveness; Research Professor, The George Washington University, USA
- Mrs. Sonia DUBOURG-LAVROFF, Director of European and International Relations and Cooperation, Ministry of Education, France
- Dr. Adnan EL-AMINE, Professor of Education, Lebanese Association for Educational Studies (LAES), Lebanon
- Dr. Üstün ERGÜDER, Director, Education Reform Initiative; Emeritus Professor, Sabancı University, Turkey
- Dr. Keri FACER, Professor, Education and Social Research Institute, Manchester Metropolitan University; former Research Director, Futurelab, UK
- Dr. Muhammad FAOUR, Senior Associate, Carnegie Middle East Center, Lebanon
- Mr. Siddartha FERNANDES, Computer Class teacher, Colegio Pedro II and Colegio Teresiano, Brazil
- Rev. John P. FOLEY, Executive Chair, the Cristo Rey Network, USA
- Ms. Debbie FORSTER, Head of Partnering and interim CEO, CDI Europe - Apps for Good, UK
- Professor José Mariano GAGO, Board member and former Chairman, International Risk Governance Council (IRGC); former Minister of Science, Technology, Information Society and Higher Education, Portugal
- Mr. Steven Lawrence GEIGER, Chief Operating Officer, Skolkovo Foundation (Russia), USA
- Mr. Antoine GODBERT, Founder 2e2F Agency, former official at the Ministry of Education, France
- Dr. Allan E. GOODMAN, President and CEO, Institute of International Education (IIE), USA
- Prof. Lizbeth GOODMAN, Chair, Creative Technology Innovation, and Professor of Inclusive Design for Education, University College Dublin; Founder and Director, SMARTlab Digital Media Institute, UK
- Ms. Josephine GREEN, Trends Expert, Beyond20: 21st century stories; former Senior Director of Trends and Strategy, Philips Design, UK
- Dr. Vartan GREGORIAN, President, Carnegie Corporation of New York
- Prof. Anil K. GUPTA, Co-ordinator, SRISTI and Honey Bee Network; Executive Vice Chair, National Innovation Foundation; Business Professor, Indian Institute of Management of Ahmedabad, India
- Dr. D.D. GUTTENPLAN, Journalist and educator; premier writer for the Education section, The International Herald Tribune; USA
- Prof. Georges HADDAD, Director, Education Research and Foresight (ED/ERF), Education Sector, UNESCO, Paris
- Mrs. Valerie HANNON, Board Director, Innovation Unit, UK
- Mr. Larry L. HARLAN, Corporate Citizenship and Community Investments Manager, Exxon Mobil Corporation, USA
- Mr. Stephen HARRIS, Principal, Northern Beaches Christian School; Founder Director, Sydney Centre for Innovation in Learning, Australia
- Mr. Bowman J. HEIDEN, Director, Design Innovation Institute, Qatar Foundation
- Dr. Lori HENINGER, Director, Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE), USA
- Dr. Ishrat HUSAIN, Dean and Director, The Institute of Business Administration (IBA); former Governor of Pakistan’s Central Bank, Pakistan
- Mr. Aref F. HUSSEINI, General Director, Al-Nayzak for Extra-curricular Education and Scientific Innovation, Palestine
- Mr. Oystein JOHANNESSEN, Chief Strategy Officer, Cerpus AS (Learning Technology Company); Education Impact Fellow, Norway
- Mr. Suneet JOHAR, Associate Vice President, The Times of India Brand, India
- Dr. Maoudi Comlanvi JOHNSON, National Coordinator for Education for All, Ministry of Pre-primary and Primary Education, Benin
- Mr. Salah-Eddine KANDRI, Manager, Consumer Services – EMENA and e4e Project Leader, International Finance Corporation, (United Arab Emirates), Morocco
- Dr. Alexander KARPOV, President, Russian Youth Engineering Society; Chairman of the Central Council, “Step into the Future” Program, Russia
- Mr. Shamsh KASSIM-LAKHA, Founding President, Aga Khan University; Member of the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan; Founding Chair of the Board, Pakistan Centre for Philanthropy, Pakistan
- Mr. Nathan KERR, Geography and Social Studies Teacher, Howick College, New Zealand
- Prof. Philip S. KHOURY, Associate Provost and Ford International Professor of History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Chairman, Board of Trustees, American University of Beirut, USA
- Dr. Elizabeth KING, Director of Education, the World Bank, Washington, D.C.
- Dr. Neal KING, Secretary General, International Association of University Presidents (IAUP), USA
- Dr. Young Jin KO, State Superintendent, Gyeongnam Provincial Office of Education, Republic of Korea
- H.E. Edem KODJO, President, Pax Africana Foundation; former Secretary General, Organisation of African Unity (OAU); former Prime Minister and Minister, Togo
- Mrs. Wendy KOPP, CEO and Co-Founder, Teach for All; CEO and Founder, Teach for America, USA
- Dr. Brij KOTHARI, President and Co-Founder, PlanetRead, India
- Mr. Anand KUMAR, Mathematics Teacher; Founder, Super 30 – Ramanujan School of Mathematics", India
- Mrs. Farida LAMBAY, Vice Principal, College of Social Work – Nirmala Niketan; Co-founder and Trustee, Pratham, India
- Ms. Kirsty LANG, Broadcaster and Journalist, UK
- Mr. Jørn West LARSEN, Headmaster, Hellerup School, Denmark
- Mr. Charles LEADBEATER, Innovation Expert and Author of the WISE book "Innovation in Education: lessons from pioneers around the world", UK
- Dr. Frannie LEAUTIER, Executive Secretary, the African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF), Tanzania
- Dr. Fernando LEON GARCIA, President, CETYS Universidad System, Mexico
- Dr. Pierre-Jean LOIRET, Deputy Director, Educational Innovation and the Knowledge Economy Department, Agence universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF), France
- Mr. Grzegorz LOREK, Biology Teacher, Leszno High School n°1, Poland
- Mr. Jacky LUMARQUE, Rector, Quisqueya University, Haïti
- Ms. Ulla LUUKAS, Head Coach, Tiimiakatemia/ Team Academy, FInland
- Mr. Anthony MACKAY, Chair, Innovation Unit (UK); Chair, Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership; CEO, Centre for Strategic Education, Australia
- Mr. Riel MILLER, Founder, XperidoX, Canada/France
- Mr. Jonathan MITCHELL, Senior Vice President for Global Operations, CARE, USA, UK
- Mr. Koji MIYAMOTO, Analyst, Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI), OECD, Paris
- Dr. Fuad MRAD, Executive Director, UN – ESCWA Regional Technology Centre (Jordan); Science Advisor, Stars of Science innovation contest, Lebanon
- Mr. François MULLER, Consultant, Department for Research and Innovation, Ministry of Education, France
- Ms. Victoire NAHIMANA, Director of elementary and secondary education, Ministry of education, Burundi
- Ms. Catherine NGUGI, Project Director, Open Educational Resources (OER Africa), Kenya
- Mr. Richard NOBLE, Land speed record holder; Director, the Bloodhound project, UK
- Mr. Iqbal NOOR ALI, Senior Advisor, Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN), USA/Pakistan
- Mr. Didier OILLO, Director of Educational innovation and the Knowledge Economy, Agence universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF), France
- H.E. Mr. Lyonpo OM PRADHAN, Chairman of Druk Holding and Investments; former Minister for Trade and Industries, Bhutan
- Mr. Koji OMI, Founder and Chairman, Science and Technology in Society (STS) Forum; former Minister of Finance, Japan
- Dr. Darleen OPFER, Director, RAND Education; Distinguished Chair in Education Policy, RAND Corporation, USA
- Mr. Uwen Robert OTU, President, African Youth Movement (AYM), Nigeria
- Hon. Irene OVONJI-ODIDA, International Board Chair, ActionAid International; human rights lawyer (Uganda)
- H.E. Naledi PANDOR, MP, Minister of Science and Technology, South Africa
- Prof. Rajani PARANJPE, Founder and President, Doorstep School, India
- Mr. Johannes PARTANEN, Founder and Head Coach Emeritus, Tiimiakatemia/ Team Academy, FInland
- Dr. Michèle PIERRE-LOUIS, President, Fokal Foundation; former Prime Minister, Haïti
- Dr. Zoran POPOVIĆ, Associate Professor in computer science and Director, Center for Game Science, University of Washington; Founder, Foldit, USA
- Mr. Marc PRENSKY, Writer and Consultant in education and learning, author of Teaching Digital Natives: Partnering for Real Learning (USA)
- Dr. James Garner PTASZYNSKI, Senior Director, World Wide Higher Education, USA
- REZA, Founder, Ainaworld; Photojournalist, National Geographic, Iran/France
- Ms. Florence RIZZO, Founder, Creative Lab for Social Change, France
- Mr. Ricardo Rene ROSAS DIAZ, Director, Center for the Development of Inclusion Technologies – CEDETI, Chile
- Ms. Reeta ROY, President and CEO, The MasterCard Foundation; Member of the board, Global Health Council, Malaysia/USA
- Dr. Anna SAAVEDRA, Associate Policy Researcher, RAND, USA
- Prof. Jeffrey D. SACHS, Director of The Earth Institute; Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development and Professor of Health Policy and Management, Columbia University; Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, USA
- Mr. Anthony SALCITO, Vice-President, Worldwide Public Sector - Education, Microsoft, USA
- Mr. Asif SALEH, Director of Communications and Head of the Social Innovation Lab at BRAC, Bangladesh
- Mr. Ponce Ernest SAMANIEGO, Co-founder and CEO of Outliers; Participant, WISE Learners' Voice, Philippines
- Lorena Sanchez, Project Manager, Your Better Life Index, OECD
- Dr. Anthony SELDON, Headmaster, Wellington College, UK
- Dr. Alexei SEMENOV, Rector, Moscow Institute of Open Education, Russia
- Dr. Jason SCORZA, Vice Provost for International Education and Global Learning, Fairleigh Dickinson University; Deputy Secretary-General, IAUP, USA
- Dr. Hamid SHIRVANI, President, California State University, Stanislaus, USA
- Ms Helena SINGER, Education Director, Associação Cidade Escola Aprendiz, Brazil
- Mrs. Kelly STEEPLES-WOOD, Teacher, Southdale CE Junior School, 2010 national winner of the SSAT award for Outstanding New Teacher of the Year, UK
- Mr. Michael STEVENSON, Vice President for Global Education, Cisco, UK
- Ms. Magdalene STORSVEEN, English Teacher, Aaretta Ungdomsskole, Norway
- Dr. Jacek STRZEMIECZNY, Co-founder and President of the Board, Center for Citizenship Education, Poland
- Ms. Anna-Livia SUSINI, Head officer, Department for European and International Relations and Cooperation, Ministry of Education, France
- Chief Almir Narayamoga SURUI, Environmentalist and Leader of the Paiter Surui People (Amazon tribe), Brazil
- Dr. François TADDEI, Genetician and Systems Biologist, National Institute of Helth and Medical Research (INSERM); Director, Centre for Research and Interdisciplinarity at Paris Descartes University, France
- Prof. John TARRANT, Former Secretary General, Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU)
- Ms. Bruktawit TIGABU, General Manager and Co-Founder, Whiz Kids Workshop; 2010 Rolex Young Laureate, Ethiopia
- Dr. Florence TOBO LOBE, President, Rubisadt Foundation, Cameroon
- Professor Emmanuel TONYE, Professor in Telecommunications and Remote Sensing, National Advanced School of Engineering- Polytechnic, the University of Yaoundé I, Cameroon
- Dr. Carlos Alberto TORRES, Professor and Division Head of Social Sciences and Comparative Education, UCLA; Founding Director, Paulo Freire Institute, Argentina/USA
- Dr. Rosa-María TORRES del CASTILLO, Educationalist, specialist in learning communities; former Minister of Education and Cultures in Ecuador, Ecuador
- Prof. John TRAXLER, Professor of Mobile Learning and Director of the Learning Lab, University of Wolverhampton; Founding Director, International Association for Mobile Learning, UK
- Mrs. Jutta TREVIRANUS, Director of the Inclusive Design Research Centre (IDRC) and professor at the Faculty of Design, OCAD University, Canada
- Mr. Ilkka TUOMI, Founder and Chief Scientist, Oy Meaning Processing Ltd., Finland
- Prof. Tim UNWIN, CEO, Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO); Emeritus Professor, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
- Dr. John VORHAUS, Co-Director, National Research and Development Centre for Adult Literacy and Numeracy (NRDC) and Director of the Wider Benefits of Learning Centre, Institute of Education - University of London,
- Mr. Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikipedia, USA
- Dr. Ruth WALLACE, Senior Lecturer, Centre for Social Partnerships in Lifelong Learning, Charles Darwin University, Northern Territory, Australia
- Dr. WANG Rong, Director, China Institute for Education Finance Research (CIEFR), Peking University, China
- Mr. David L. WHEELER, Editor at large, Global, The Chronicle of Higher Education, USA
- Ms. Freda WOLFENDEN, Director, Teacher Education in Sub Saharan Africa (TESSA); Associate Dean, Faculty of Education and Language Studies, The Open University, UK
- Prof. John WOOD, Secretary General, Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU), UK
- Dr. Jim WYNN, Chief Education Officer, Promethean Planet, UK
- Dr. Tarik YOUSEF, CEO, SILATECH Foundation, UK/Qatar
- Dr Mercedes ZAMORA COLLAZO, Academic Advisor of the Literacy and Education Chair for Young and Adults, Latin American and Caribbean Pedagogical Institute (IPLAC), Cuba