Speakers

Manos Antoninis Director, Global Education Monitoring Report

Sherrie Westin President Social Impact and Philanthropy, Sesame Workshop

Rebecca Winthrop Director & Senior Fellow, Center for Universal Education, Brookings Institute

Benoit Wirz Partner, Brighteye

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)

Andrew Jack Education Editor, Financial Times

Thana El-Sallabi Program Officer, WISE

Amel Karboul CEO, Education Outcomes Fund for Africa and the Middle East

Staneala Beckley Chair, Sierra Leone Teaching Service Commission

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)

Sungsup Ra Director Human and Social Development Division, South Asia Regional Department, Asian Development Bank

Thor Ellegaard CEO, Edtech Denmark

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

Fatma Hassan Al Remaihi CEO, Doha Film Institute

Meagan Fallone Executive Director, Barefoot College

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

Christos Stylianides European Commissioner For Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management, European Commission

Samantha Butters CEO, Fair Education Alliance

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

Krista Davidson Head of Programmes & Operations, INJINI

Sarah Shaath Class of 2020, Northwestern University, Qatar

Eddie Dutton Emergency Manager, Education, Education Cannot Wait

Julia Kirby Manager of Research & Content Dissemination, WISE

Matthew Swift CEO & Co-Founder, Concordia

Mike Feerick CEO & Founder, Alison

Surya Karki Country Director and Co-Founder, United World Schools Nepal

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