Speakers

Manos Antoninis Director, Global Education Monitoring Report
Sherrie Westin President Social Impact and Philanthropy, Sesame Workshop
Rebecca Winthrop Senior Fellow, Brookings
Benoit Wirz Partner, Brighteye
Rukmini Banerji CEO, Pratham Education Foundation
Victoria Basma Head of EdTech, WISE
Staneala Beckley Chair, Sierra Leone Teaching Service Commission
Eddie Dutton Emergency Manager, Education, Education Cannot Wait
Thor Ellegaard CEO, Edtech Denmark
Owen Henkel Investment Director, Pearson Ventures
Faye Hobson Program Manager, Salzburg Global Seminar
Gordon Brown UN Special Envoy for Global Education, Former Prime Minister, Commission Chair, The Education Commission
Sean Holroyd Assoc. Professor of Teaching in Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine (Qatar)
Safeena Husain Founder and Board Member of Educate Girls
Ameena Abdulmajeed Chief Curator and Director of Programs, WISE
Andrew Jack Education Editor, Financial Times
Samantha Butters CEO, Fair Education Alliance
Thana El-Sallabi Program Officer, WISE
Amel Karboul CEO, Education Outcomes Fund for Africa and the Middle East
Surya Karki Country Director and Co-Founder, United World Schools Nepal
Fiona Mavhinga Executive Advisor, CAMFED Association
Jaya Ramchandani Faculty Member, UWC ISAK Japan
Ruben Vardanyan Co-Founder, Aurora Humanitarian Initiative
Amira Yahyaoui Founder & CEO, Mos.com
Smita Deorah Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer, LEAD School
Saran Stewart Senior Lecturer of Comparative Higher Education and Deputy Dean for Quality Assurance and Undergraduate Matters in the Faculty of Humanities and Education, University of West Indies, Jamaica
Emiliana Vegas Professor of practice, Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE)
Stavros Yiannouka CEO, WISE
Sungsup Ra Director Human and Social Development Division, South Asia Regional Department, Asian Development Bank
Yang Lan Chairperson, Sun Media Group and Sun Future Art Education Foundation
Hassan Al-Derham President, Qatar University
Akshay Chaturvedi Founder & CEO, Leverage Edu
Chelsea Waite Senior Researcher, Center on Reinventing Public Education
Asmaa Al-Fadala Director of Research, WISE, Assistant Professor, College of Public Policy (Hamad bin Khalifa University)
Fatma Hassan Al Remaihi CEO, Doha Film Institute
Meagan Fallone Executive Director, Barefoot College
Elyas Felfoul Director of Policy Development & Partnerships, WISE
Clare Shine Vice President and Chief Program Officer, Salzburg Global Seminar
Maryanna Abdo Managing Director, Centre for Evidence and Implementation
Rosie Clayton Research Fellow, Global Education Leaders Partnership / WISE
Catalina Lopez-Correa COO, RUTA N
Sara Ruto CEO, PAL Network
Lorenzo Benussi Chief Innovation Officer, Fondazione per la Scuola della Compagnia di San Paolo
Andrea Escobar Vila Executive Director, Empresarios Por La Educación
Danilo Padilla Education Programme Specialist, UNESCO
Elizabeth Robison Founder & CEO, Strategic Fundraising Advisors
Liesbet Steer President & CEO, EDC
Christos Stylianides European Commissioner For Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management, European Commission
Vicky Colbert Founder and Director, Fundación Escuela Nueva
Grace Maina Senior Deputy Director, Curriculum and Research Services, Kenya Institute for Curriculum Development
Mikkel Mouritz Marfelt Director, Investor Relations and New Strategic Initiatives, Labster
Darleen Opfer Vice President and Director, RAND Education and Labor, RAND Corporation
Sidharth Santhosh Research Consultant, Centre for Policy Research
Rebeca Grynspan Secretary-General, SEGIB
Ngoc Nguyen Student, Georgetown University Qatar
Larry Rosenstock Founder & CEO Emeritus, High Tech High
Bo Stjerne Thomsen Chair of Learning through Play, LEGO Foundation
Daniel Dotse CEO & Co-Founder, Lead for Ghana
Olli Pekkah Heinonen Director General, Finnish National Agency for Education
Daniel Quintero Mayor, City of Medellín
Asif Saleh Executive Director, BRAC
Ana Raad Founder, Fundación REimagina and AprendoEnCasa.org
Maria Spies Co-Founder & Co-CEO, HolonIQ
Krista Davidson Head of Programmes & Operations, INJINI
Sarah Shaath Class of 2020, Northwestern University, Qatar
Julia Kirby Manager of Research & Content Dissemination, WISE
Matthew Swift CEO & Co-Founder, Concordia
Mike Feerick CEO & Founder, Alison
Dayoung Lee Associate Partner, Dalberg
Fernando Reimers Ford Foundation Professor of the Practice in International Education and Director of the Global Education Innovation Initiative and of The International Education Policy Program, Harvard University
Stephane Coillet-Matillon CEO, Kiwix
Maha Essid Student, Northwestern University, Qatar
Craig D’Souza Head of Global Security, Intelligence & Investigations (GSII), Executive Protection (GSEP), Facebook
Jaime Saavedra Global Director, Education, The World Bank
José Escamilla Director, TecLabs
Styliani Adamantia Pipa Student, American Community Schools of Athens
Patrick Brothers Co-Founder & Co-CEO, HolonIQ
Mona Mourshed Founder, Generation: You Employed