Speakers at the event

Huda Al Ghoson General Manager, Training and Development Organisation, Saudi Aramco, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Jacqueline Ancess Co-Director, NCREST, Columbia University Andrew Blair President, International Confederation of Principals, Australia Dr Taddy Blecher CEO of the Community and Individual Development Association (CIDA) and CEO of the Maharishi Institute Pr Monique Canto Sperber Director, Ecole Normale Superieure Azza El-Shinnawy Education Lead, Public Sector, Gulf, Microsoft Mike Feinberg Co-Founder of the KIPP Foundation, Superintendent of KIPP Houston, USA Edward B. (Ted) Fiske Author and former Education Editor of the New York Times, USA Sudhir Ghodke Director, Educational Initiatives Pr Patrick Griffin Executive Director, Assessment and Teaching of 21st Century Skills, AT21C & University of Melbourne Kathleen Hagstrom Principal,Walt Disney Magnet School Pr Seamus Hegarty Chair of the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA), UK Kaya Henderson Deputy Chancellor, District of Colombia Public Scholls David Hogan Centre for Research in Pedagogy and Pratice, National Institute of Education, Singapore Dr Janice Jackson Lecturer on Education, Senior Associate for the Executive Education Leadership Program, Harvard Graduate School of Education Dr Dorothy Penny Jennings Founder/CEO, A.C.T., Inc. - Adults Caring for Teens Cindy Johanson Executive director, Edutopia (The George Lucas Educational Foundation) Pr Alan Kantrow Professor of Management (Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO) and Director, SIRC, Russia Dr Kevin Knight Co-founder of the New Zealand Graduate School of Education, New Zealand Professor Helen Ladd Edgar Thompson Professor of Public Policy Studies and professor of economics, Duke University?s Sanford School of Public Policy, USA Charles Leadbeater Consultant for innovation in education and author, UK Ewan McIntosh Director at No Tosh Digital Media & Education Dr Mona Mourshed Partner, McKinsey & Company

Dr Osama Obeidat Head of Monitoring and Evaluation, Jordan Education Initiative, Jordan Tom Payzant Professor of Practice, Harvard Graduate School of Education Dr Ari Pokka President, Finnish Association for Principals, Finland Dr Natasha Ridge Research Fellow, Dubai School of Government, UAE Kailash Satyarthi President, Global Campaign for Education Nicholas Seaver CEO, Phuket International Academy, Thailand Kiran Bir Sethi Founder, Riverside School, Ahmedabad Dan Shine Vice President, 50x15 Initiative, AMD Pr Ralph Tabberer Chief of Schools, GEMS Education, UAE Pr Stephen Joel Trachtenberg President Emeritus, The George Washington University, USA Gever Tulley Co-founder, Tinkering School Jeff Utecht Learning Co-ordinator, International School, Bangkok Tony Wagner Co-director of the Change Leadership Group, Harvard Graduate School of Education Kelly Yang Founder, the Kelly Yang Project Dr Janchai Yingprayoon Past President, International Council of Associations for Science Education, Thailand