Jury and Committee Members

Abeer Al-Khalifa

President, PUE

Anousheh Ansari

CEO, XPRIZE

Anthony B Maddox

Director and Co-Founder, Center for Engineering in Education

Astrid S. Tuminez

President, Utah Valley University

Aysha Al-Mudakha

Director of Strategic Initiative Partnership Development in CEO Office, Qatar Foundation

Ben Nelson

Founder & CEO, Minerva Project

Beth Yu

Executive Secretary-General, Jack Ma Foundation

Carolyn Acker

Founder, Pathways to Education

Christy Moorhead

COO, Rumie

Claudio Sassaki

Co-founder and CEO, Geekie

Daisy Mertens

Teacher, Communityschool De Vuurvogel/ Number5 Foundation

Daniel Dotse

CEO & Co-Founder, Lead for Ghana

David Moinina Sengeh

Chief Minister & Chief Innovation Officer, Government of Sierra Leone

Dolores Dickson

Executive Director, Camfed Canada

Emad Al Khaja

CEO, Injaz Qatar

Emiliana Vegas

Professor of practice, Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE)

Enrico Letta

Institut Jacques Delors and member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies

Fahad Hamad Hassan Al- Sulaiti

Director General of Qatar Fund for Development

Gabriel Stauring

Founder and Executive Director, iACT

Gaurav Gupta

Global Managing Partner, Dalberg Advisors

George Kronnisanyon Werner

Former Minister of Education, Liberia, EJS Center for Women and Development

Gregory J. Moncada

Founding Director, Qatar Academy for Science and Technology (QAST)

Dr. Jörg Dräger

Executive Director of the Board of Trustees, Kühne Foundation

Kate Wang

Vice President of International Partnership, MyCOS Data

Louka Parry

CEO and Founder, The Learning Future

Mr. Lu Mai

Secretary General, China Development Research Foundation (CDRF)

Luis Fernando Sanabria

COO, Fundación Paraguaya

Lydia Wilbard

Executive Director, Learning & Engagement, Camfed Tanzania

Dr. Maria Spies

Co-Founder & Co-CEO, HolonIQ

Nadia Naviwala

Senior advisor on Global Partnerships, The Citizens Foundation (TCF)

Nieves Segovia Bonet

President, SEK Education Group

Nisha Ligon

CEO, Ubongo

Patrick Gyimah Awuah Jr

Founder & President, Ashesi University

Dr. Peggy Pelonis

Acting President, American Community School, Athens

Dr. Peter Materu

Chief Program Officer, Mastercard Foundation

Pooja Taparia

Founder & Chief Executive, Arpan

Rana Dajani

Scientist and University Professor, Hashemite University in Jordan

Randa Grob-Zakhary

Executive Director, Insights for Education Foundation

Rebeca Grynspan

Secretary-General, SEGIB

Rebecca Winthrop

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

Safeena Husain

Founder, Educate Girls, Winner of the WISE Prize for Education 2023

Saku Tuominen

CEO, HundrED

Shannon May

Co-Founder & President, NewGlobe Education

Shigeo Katsu

President, Nazarbayev University

Stefania Giannini

Assistant Director-General for Education, UNESCO

Dr. Tarek Chehidi

Global Lead, Future of Work and Public Sector, Teach For All

Tim Howarth

Founding CEO & Board Advisor, United World Schools

Tracey Burns

Chief Research Officer, National Center on Education and the Economy in Washington, DC

Veronika Zonabend

Founder, RVVZ Foundation

Vicky Colbert

Founder & Director, Fundación Escuela Nueva

Vishal Talreja

Co-Founder, Dream a Dream

Yousuf Mohamed Al-Jaida

Board Member & Chief Executive Officer, Qatar Financial Centre (QFC) Authority