Speakers

Rawaa Augé Presenter, Al Jazeera

Manos Antoninis Director, Global Education Monitoring Report

Svenia Busson Co-founder at LearnSpace & European Edtech Alliance

Fernando Leon Garcia President, CETYS University System & International Association of University

Daniel Kropf Executive Chairman, Learning for Well-being Foundation

Anver Versi Journalist, New African magazine

Kuldeep Dantewadia Co-Founder & CEO, Reap Benefit

Shereen Hamadeh Principal, University Foundation College

Sajeda Atari Child Protection Specialist, UNICEF

Aysha Al Mudahka Director of Strategic Initiatives & Partnership Development, Qatar Foundation CEO Office

Saeeda Jaffar Group Country Manager-GCC, VISA

Jose Vilson Executive Director, EduColor

Atif Shafique Public Policy Consultant and Researcher

Tom Cosgrove Chief Creative and Content Officer, EARTHDAY.ORG

Hadeel ElSayed National Program Educator & Data Protection Officer, Qatar Academy Sidra

Davies Banda Advisor; Director of Learning and Teaching, Generation Amazing – Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy; - Moray House School of Education and Sport - University of Edinburgh

Nieves Segovia President, SEK Education Group

Khalid Al-khanji Chief Strategy and Development Officer, Qatar University

Sue Stevenson Director of Strategic Partnerships and International Development, Barefoot College International

Niamh Whelan Qatar Foundation

Sadock John Young Leader, Street Child United

Jasmin Akter Young Leader, Street Child United

Jérémie Fontanieu Economics Teacher in Drancy Founder, Reconciliation Project

John Wroe Founder and CEO, Street Child United

Shalini Dwivedi Global Director of Instruction, Generation

Farah Altaweel Head of 2D Design, Dadu ‑ Children’s Museum of Qatar

Sanaa Alharahsheh Research Manager, World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH), Qatar Foundation

Jigyasa Labroo Co-Founder and CEO, Slam Out Loud

Yasmine Abu Seedo Education Officer, UNICEF

Sarah Wadi Al-Amiry North Field Production Sustainment Project (NFPS) Joint Venture Project Manager, ExxonMobil’s Qatar Projects

Dareen Abughaida Principal Presenter, Al Jazeera English

Audrey Giacomini Manager, Innovation for Quality and Access, WISE

Derek Newton Writer/Journalist

Sarah Crowe Moderator of the Leading Minds, UNICEF Office of Research Innocenti

Khadeja Ahmad Albuhaliqa Outreach Manager, AYCM

Rasha Kadry Soliman Director of Leeds, Centre for Excellence in Language Teaching

Hy Huynh Community Psychologist and Researcher, Center for Health Policy & Inequalities Research, Duke University

Jessica Haxhi Supervisor of World Languages, New Haven Public Schools

Mohammed Mostafa Online Programs Coordinator, MUN Impact

Emmy Josefson Project Coordinator, MUNimpact

Nikita Khosla Senior Director of Programs, Luninos Fund

Gang Lu Founder & CEO, TechNode Group Co-founder, BEYOND Expo

Lydia Wilbard Executive Director, Learning & Engagement, Camfed Tanzania

Rae Jean Proeschold-Bell Professor of Global Health, Duke University

Christina Bwana Chief Product Officer, Ubongo

Jamie Stuart CTO, Onebillion

Robert Lobatto Head, King Alfred School

Her Highness Sheikha Moza bint Nasser Chairperson of Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development (QF)

Elisheva Cohen Postdoctoral Fellow, Indiana University

Tsepo Ngwenyama Portfolio Manager, Injini

Benjamin M. Freeman Jr Executive Director, Liberia Institute for the Promotion of Academic Excellence

Marianne O’Grady Deputy Country Director – Programs, CARE Afghanistan

Amy Bellinger Head of Programs, The Education Commission

Ruth Wylie Assistant Director, Center for Science and the Imagination Associate Research Professor, Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, Arizona State University

Mohamad Ali Bahri Arabic Language Program Coordinator, Translation and Interpreting Institute

Eric Steinberger Co-founder and CEO, ClimateScience

Joannie Bewa Professional Moderator

Arezo Kohistany Director, Afghan Future Fund & Yalda Hakim Foundation

Sarah Champa Al Dafa Founder, Maktaba Children’s Library

Colin Maclay Executive Director, Annenberg Innovation Lab Research Professor of Communications, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism

Jonathan Birdwell Regional Head of Policy & Insights, Economist Impact

Mohammed Al-Janahi Head of outreach, Teach for Qatar Organization

Zarmina Hotaki Principal-Qatar Leadership Academy, Qatar Foundation Schools

Zuriel Oduwole Film Maker & UN Climate Neutral Now Champion Co-Founder, DUSUSU Foundation

Anthony B Maddox Director and Co-Founder, Center for Engineering in Education

Jaideep Singh Youth Representative at the Board of Directors, MUNimpact

Robert Jenkins Director, Education and Adolescent Development, Programme Group, UNICEF

Jeffery Lv Video producer

Yahya Bouhlel Founder & CEO, Go My Code

Shennon Sequeira Head of Program Coordinators, Member of the Board of Directors, MUNimpact

Lamis Hasan Education Specialist, NRC- Iran

Richard Hoffman South Sudan Country Manager, Whitaker Peace & Development Initiative

Siroun Shamigian COO, Kamkalima

Brandon Busteed Chief Partnership Officer (Universities & Employers) and Global Head, Learn-Work Innovation, Kaplan

Filippo Grandi United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, UN Refugee Agency

Nadia Nadim Professional footballer and future Doctor

Zelmira Polk Managing Director, The Hearth Advisors

Rana Dajani Scientist and University Professor, Hashemite University in Jordan

Tuleen Naame Student, Arab Music Department

Stanzin Saldon Founder and CEO, rZamba Foundation

Azza O. Abdelmoneium Director of Family Research, Doha International Family Institute member of Qatar Foundation

Malek Jandali Founder & CEO, Pianos for Peace Composer & Pianist

Zyad Limam Founder & Director, Afrique Magazine

Leonardo Párraga Founder, The BogotArt Foundation

Shannon May Co-Founder & President, NewGlobe Education

Lakshitha Saji Prelis Co-Chair, Global Coalition on Youth, Peace and Security & Director, Children & Youth Programs, Search for Common Ground

Joe Sallustio Co-Founder & Host, The EdUp Experience Podcast Executive Vice President & COO, Claremont Lincoln University

Maha Yakoub Language Teacher, Book Author and Entrepreneur

Jennifer Adams Executive Committee, Karanga Editor-in-Chief, Knowledgehook Signature Leadership

Danielle De La Fuente Founder & CEO, Amal Alliance

Hissa Al-Aali Director of Training and Educational Development Center, Qatar Ministry of Education and Higher Education

Anshul Arora Co-Founder, Edvance Group

Santiago Garcia Founding Partner

Musarrat Maisha Reza Representative, Global Students Forum and Chairperson of the Commonwealth Students’ Association

Roderick-Victor Nyangi Ntsiama Cabinet Director, DRC Ministry of Youth

Rhuks Ako Youth For Peace African Program, African Union

Dr. Nayef Alyafei Associate Professor, Texas A&M University at Qatar

Hosni Zaouali CEO, Tech-Adaptika Education Consultant, Stanford University

Taanika Shankar Co-founder, Yugmā Network Student, Azim Premji University

Naza Alakija Humanitarian, Philanthropist and Global Education Advocate Founder, SAGE Foundation

Yasmine Ouirhrane Founder, We Belong

Mariam Al-Dhubhani Independent Journalist, Filmmaker, Curator and Educator

Xiaobin Yuan Senior Content Director, NetEase Media

Arana Shapiro Director & Chief Learning Officer, Games for Change

Michiel Klønhammer Founder and Chief Product Officer, LearningStone

Vivian Leung Global Education Partnerships and Programme Specialist, UNESCO

Peter Sutoris Environmental Anthropologist, UCL London

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

Daniela Labra Cardero General Director, AtentaMente

Denise Amyot President and CEO, Colleges and Institutes Canada Board Member, Qatar Foundation

Ananya Agrawal Project Lead, Call-A-Kahaani

Adam Abdelmoula Special Representative of the UN Secretary General, UNSOM, United Nations Mission in Somalia

Sam Ray Director, Next Generation Leadership / Center for Creative Leadership

Rokaya Hussain Director General of Educational Projects, Alnowair AlKuwaitiya Co.

Amit Sharma Associate Director, Dream a Dream

Zabihullah Ghazawi Member of INEE and Director General, Community Action for Healing Poverty

Jeffrey Dow Regional Education Technical Advisor- Asia, The International Rescue Committee

Saisabel Alruwaidan Founding member, YPS Jordan-coalition

Rama Kayyali CEO & Co-Founder, Little Thinking Minds

Kate Donaghey Executive Vice President of Policy, Learn Launch Institute

Gizem Konus Clinical Programs Coordinator, Maya Vakfi Foundation

HH Sheikha Intisar AlSabah Founder and CEO, Bareec

Jessica Posner Odede CEO, Girl Effect

Prerna Kalra Associate Director, Simple Education Foundation

Madhav Chavan Co-Founder and President, Pratham

Aleu Garang Mediation Support Unit Director, The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD)

Linya Peng Social media creator & Influencer

Ana Jiménez Communications Consultant, Dalberg Media

Juan Manuel Restrepo Director, Cosmo Schools | Comfama

Debora Kayembe Rector, University of Edinburgh

Karima Grant Founder & Director, ImagiNation Afrika Co-Founder, Ker ImagiNation

Suchetha Bhat CEO, Dream a Dream

Diana Al-Dajani Founder & CEO, eduTechnoz

Christer Gundersen CTO, Global Digital Library

Nick Sore Senior Refugee Sports Coordinator, UNHCR

Carmen Burbano de Lara Director of School Feeding Division, World Food Programme

Amany Hussein Kamel Professional Development Specialist and Coach, Training and Educational Development Cente, Ministry of Education and Higher Education of Qatar

Ann Makosinski Inventor & Writer

Samy Chaffai Film Director & Content Creator

Tanmay Bakshi Advisory Software Engineer, IBM
Google Developer Expert for Machine Learning

Pablo Jaramillo Villegas CEO, Luker Foundation

Hassan Al-Derham President, Qatar University

Jordan Shapiro Senior Fellow, Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop

Einas Mohammed Lead EdTech Specialist, ibTECHar

Dean Mark Kline The World Bank, EdTech Team Senior Managing Director, USC Rossier EdVentures

Grace David Tech-Voc Career Accelerator, Edukasyon.ph

Ana Martinengui Chief Executive Officer, Education For Employment-Europe

Huda Almzainy Student, Al Fakhoora Alumni

Ibrahim AlSafadi CEO and Co-Founder, Luminus Group Creator, Super Revolutionary Model

Doaa Abu-Elyounes Postdoctoral Researcher, UNESCO - École Supérieure de Paris

Alison Wood Academic Director, Homerton Changemakers and Fellow, Homerton College, University of Cambridge

Mathieu Nebra Co-founder and Chief Innovation Officer, OpenClassrooms

Fatma Hassan Al Remaihi CEO, Doha Film Institute

Mari Lim Jones Project Director of the Deeper Learning Hub, Deeper Learning Hub/High Tech High

Julia Sylla Director of Programs, Qatar Foundation International (QFI)

Esra Ozsuer Founder & President, Maya Vakfi Foundation

Abderrahmane Dedeche Expansion Designer, Academyati

Robert Hawkins Senior Education and Technology Policy Specialist & Global Lead for Technology and Innovation in Education, World Bank

Zhou Yijun Journalist and Documentary Filmaker, Wonder Y

Marc Brackett Founding Director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence; Professor in the Child Study Center, Yale School of Medicine at Yale University

Rosie Clayton Research Fellow, Global Education Leaders Partnership / WISE

Hejang Misao Founder and CEO, InSIDE North East

Tehmina Akhtar Senior Strategic Advisor Regional Bureau, Arab States United Nations Development Programme

Kiran Bir Sethi Founder & Director, The Riverside School

Sabeena Abbasi Chief Digital Learning Officer, Taleemabad

Priyanka Varma Senior Ed Policy Associate, JPAL

Shahad Alkhair Research Assistant, Qatar University

HE Buthaina Bint Ali Al Jabr Al Nuaimi Minister of Education and Higher Education, Qatar

Megan Esopenko Virtual Environment Designer , TechAdaptika

Basel Al Muree EdTech Specialist, ibTECHar

Alina Zaman Research Assistant, Hamad bin Khalifa University

Sidharth Santhosh Research Consultant, Centre for Policy Research

Ulises Brengi Learning Experience Designer, Eidos Global

Sidy Ndao Founder, Pan-African Robotics Competition

Ayda Haydarpour Captain, Afghan Girls Robotics Team

Kate Sims Consultant, Education Development Trust

Jana Degrott Co-Founder, We Belong

Sue Attewell Head of Edtech, Jisc

Gitanjali Rao Innovator, Author and STEM Promoter

Larry Rosenstock Founder & CEO Emeritus, High Tech High

Mojisola Sonoiki Founder and Executive Director, African Film & Arts Foundation Inc

Neila Benzina Co-Founder, Holberton School

Chao Yu Senior Financial Journalist & Editor Executive Producer Founder, Chaojin Club

Shaheena Janjuha-Jivraj Associate Professor in Entrepreneurial Leadership and Gender Diversity, HEC Paris in Qatar

Asif Saleh Executive Director, BRAC

Agustín Pardo Van Thienen CEO and Founder, Wumbox

Ana Carcani Rold Diplomatic Courier

Mark Johnson The Economist, Education Correspondent

Shunta Takino Policy Research and Advice, Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs OECD

Sandra van de Kraak Breakthrough Foundation

Taoufik Mirkhan Head of Arab Music Department at the Academy

Jesse Driver International Educator, Green School

Sarah Al-Dorani Chief Communication Officer, Qatar Financial Centre

Marine Tanguy CEO, MTArt Agency

Bayan Itani Creative Engagement Specialist, Kamkalima

Lillyana Uribe Trujillo Innovation, Learning & Technology Director, San José de Las Vegas School

Eglantina Zingg Founder, Goleadoras

Nedgine Paul Deroly Co-founder & CEO, Anseye Pou Ayiti

Jean-Pierre Mugiraneza Leadership for Learning Lead, Building Learning Foundation Programme, Education Development Trust

Julia Kirby Manager of Research & Content Dissemination, WISE

Mohammed Abu Zeinab Region Director and Master Brain Education Trainer, Brain Education ME

Ruba Ali Research Assistant, Qatar University Young Scientists Center

Nerijus Kriauciunas CEO, Badgecraft

Neeshad Shafi Co-Founder & Executive Director, Arab Youth Climate Movement Qatar LLC (G)

Mike Feerick CEO & Founder, Alison

Aldo de Pape CEO, TeachPitch

Alejandro Roldán Professional Senior in Innovation for Education, Ruta N Corporation

Dr. Evren Tok HBKU-CPP

Frederic Gateretse-Ngoga Ambassador

Duygu Sever Mehmetoglu Post-Doc, Hamad bin Khalifa University

Leonard Mungarulire Associate Partner, Dalberg Advisors

Yousra Shibeika Founder, WhyPodcast

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

Eman Abdulla Head of L&O and Schools, Dadu–Children’s Museum of Qatar

Patrick Gyimah Awuah Jr Founder & President, Ashesi University

Anthony Mackay Board Co-Chair, NCEE

Dina Buchbinder Founder and President, Education for Sharing

Tanya Qadir Director of Partner Success, Rumie Initiative

Jojo Ferris Head, Olympic Refuge Foundation

Alanoud Mubarak Al Hitmi Student, Qatar Academy Doha

Paul Muller Co-Founder, Coleap

Bayan Khaled Research Fellow, Hamad bin Khalifa University

Deborah Kimathi Executive Director, Dignitas

Ioanna Noula Co-Founder, EDDS

H.E. Moustapha Mohamed Mahamoud Minister of National Education and Vocational Training, Government of Djibouti

Ravi Sreenath Founder & CEO, Accelerated Learning

Victoria Basma Head of EdTech, WISE

Machaille Hassan Al Naimi President of Community Development, Qatar Foundation

Marcony Meza Project Coordinator, Honduras, World Vision International

Mahmoud Suhail El ghazawi Digital Film making University/college, SAE institute

Steve Smith Founder, Student Data Privacy Consortium

Sir Anthony Seldon Former Vice-Chancellor, Buckingham University

Andy Cope The UK’s ‘Doctor of Happiness’, Art of Brilliance

Sébastien Turbot CEO and Chief Curator, eko6

Maha Haidar-Makki Director, Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program at the American University of Beirut

Emad Al Khaja CEO, Injaz Qatar

Wendy Kopp CEO & Co-founder, Teach For All

Asma Jaber Al Hammadi Broadcaster, Al Jazeera news channel

Aziza Chaouni Architect, Ecotourism Specialist, and TED Fellow, Aziza Chaouni Projects

André Thomas Director, LIVE lab Associate professor of the Practice, Texas A&M University and Visualization department CEO, Triseum

Arthur Daemmrich Director, Smithsonian Institution’s Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation.

Lucia Burtnik Urueta Chief Learning Officer, Eidos Global CIC

Leslee Udwin Former Filmmaker; Education Activist Founder & Executive Chair, Think Equal

Anggaris Cininta Priatna Co-Founder, GenEducators

Bader Al Zaharna Student, Al Fakhoora Alumni

Khalid Yassin Chief Programs Officer, Teach For Qatar

Sonia Livingstone Professor, The London School of Economics and Political Science

Maha Rashid Al Romaihi Director, Tariq Bin Ziad School

Nikita Khandwala Head of Growth, Coleap

Lisa Martin Founder and Executive Director, MunImpact

Amal Mohammed Al-Malki Founding Dean, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Hamad Bin Khalifa University - Qatar Foundation

Eddy Yav National Rapporteur of the Technical Secretariat of Resolution 2250, Democratic Republic of Congo Team

Hector Swazi Project Manager,Zambia Open Community Schools

Audrey Azoulay Director-General, UNESCO

Velislava Hillman Founder, EDDS

Somaya Faruqi Captain, Afghan Girls Robotics Team

Kehkashan Basu United Nations Human Rights Champion, Forbes 30 Under 30, Winner of 2016 International Children's Peace Prize & 2021 World Literacy Award, and Founder-President of Green Hope Foundation