Speakers

Maryanna Abdo Managing Director, Centre for Evidence and Implementation

Styliani Adamantia Pipa Student, American Community Schools of Athens

Hassan Al-Derham President, Qatar University

Asmaa Al-Fadala Director of Research and Content Development, WISE

Nayef Al-Ibrahim CEO, Ibtechar

Fatma Al Remaihi CEO, Doha Film Institute

Manos Antoninis Director of GEM Report, UNESCO

Ahmed Baghdady Research Manager, WISE

Rukmini Banerji CEO, Pratham Education Foundation

Victoria Basma Policy Officer, WISE

Staneala Beckley Chair, Sierra Leone Teaching Service Commission

Lorenzo Benussi Chief Innovation Officer, Fondazione per la Scuola della Compagnia di San Paolo

Patrick Brothers Co-Founder & Co-CEO, HolonIQ

Gordon Brown UN Special Envoy for Global Education, Former Prime Minister, Commission Chair, The Education Commission

Samantha Butters CEO, Fair Education Alliance

Akshay Chaturvedi Founder & CEO, Leverage Edu

Rosie Clayton Co-Founder, Weaving Lab

Stephane Coillet-Matillon CEO, Kiwix

Vicky Colbert Founder and Director, Fundación Escuela Nueva

Shelby Cosner Professor, Educational Organization and Leadership, University of Illinois, Chicago (UIC)

Krista Davidson Head of Programmes & Operations, INJINI

Smita Deorah Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer, LEAD School

Daniel Dotse CEO & Co-Founder, Lead for Ghana

Craig D’Souza Head of Global Security, Intelligence & Investigations (GSII), Executive Protection (GSEP), Facebook

Eddie Dutton Emergency Manager, Education, Education Cannot Wait

Thor Ellegaard CEO, Edtech Denmark

Thana El-Sallabi Program Officer, WISE

José Escamilla Director, TecLabs

Andrea Escobar Vila Executive Director, Empresarios Por La Educación

Maha Essid Student, Northwestern University, Qatar

Mike Feerick Founder and CEO, Alison

Meagan Fallone Executive Director, Barefoot College

Elyas Felfoul Director, Policy Development & Partnerships, World Innovation Summit for Education

Stefania Giannini Assistant Director-General for Education, UNESCO

Rebeca Grynspan Secretary-General, SEGIB

Owen Henkel Investment Director, Pearson Ventures

Faye Hobson Program Manager, Salzburg Global Seminar

Sean Holroyd Assoc. Professor of Teaching in Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine (Qatar)

Safeena Husain Founder, Educate Girls

Ameena Hussain Chief Curator and Director of Programs, WISE

Andrew Jack Education Editor, Financial Times

Janhvi M. Kanoria Director of Innovation, Education Above All

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

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

Julia Kirby Manager of Research & Content Dissemination, WISE

Yang Lan Chairperson, Sun Media Group and Sun Future Art Education Foundation

Dayoung Lee Associate Partner, Dalberg

Catalina Lopez-Correa COO, RUTA N

Grace Maina Senior Deputy Director, Curriculum and Research Services, Kenya Institute for Curriculum Development

Fiona Mavhinga Executive Advisor, CAMFED Association

Mikkel Mouritz Marfelt Director, Investor Relations and New Strategic Initiatives, Labster

Mona Mourshed Founder, Generation: You Employed

Ngoc Nguyen Student, Georgetown University Qatar

Darleen Opfer Vice President and Director, RAND Education and Labor, RAND Corporation

Danilo Padilla Education Programme Specialist, UNESCO

Olli Pekkah Heinonen Director General, Finnish National Agency for Education

Daniel Quintero Mayor, City of Medellín

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

Ana Raad Founder and Director, EcosiSTEAM

Jaya Ramchandani Faculty Member, UWC ISAK Japan

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

Dominic Regester Program Director, Salzburg Global Seminar

Elizabeth Robison Founder & CEO, Strategic Fundraising Advisors

Larry Rosenstock CEO and Founding Principal, High Tech High

Sara Ruto CEO, PAL Network

Asif Saleh Executive Director, BRAC Bangladesh

Jaime Saavedra Global Director, Education, The World Bank

Sarah Shaath Class of 2020, Northwestern University, Qatar

Clare Shine Vice President and Chief Program Officer, Salzburg Global Seminar

Maria Spies Co-Founder & Co-CEO, HolonIQ

Liesbet Steer Director, Education Commission

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