Friday, September 18, 2020

unlock big change - education un sept 21 theirworld sarah brown

Unlock Big Change – Education: the key to a better future is a digital conference featuring interactive panels, debates and presentations with world leaders, celebrity advocates, business executives, and leading advocates, innovators and changemakers. The event will discuss the importance of education and what we can do to be more effective advocates and mobilize concrete, tangible progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 4 - equitable and inclusive quality education for all.

You will have the opportunity to attend the mainstage plenary event, hear from world leaders and network in real-time with leaders from NGOs, youth organisations, civil society, business, foundations, governments, international organizations and academia.

At the event, we will also be launching a new open source, digital report to support all of the ongoing community, national and global campaign efforts to advance education – from the early years to youth skills for the next generation.

Detailed Program

10:00 am (NYC): Welcome from UN Plaza

Jamira Burley, Head of Youth Engagement and Skills, Global Business Coalition for Education

António Guterres, United Nations Secretary-General

10:05 am (NYC) : Unlocking Education in Emergencies

Moderator: Sarah Brown, Chair, Theirworld; Executive Chair, GBC-Education

Panelists:
Annemiek Hoogenboom, Country Director, People's Postcode Lottery
Janez Lenarčič, Commissioner for Crisis Management, European Commission
Emanuel “Boo” Milton, Creator, SparkBox
Yasmine Sherif, Director, Education Cannot Wait

10:35 am (NYC) : Unlocking Skills for the Future

Moderator: Jamira Burley, Head of Youth Engagement and Skills, Global Business Coalition for Education

Panelists:
Ousmane Ba, Global Youth Ambassador, Theirworld
Jude Kelly, Director, WOW Foundation
Kwasi Mitchell, Principal, Diversity & Inclusion Lead, Deloitte
Pia Wilson-Body, President, Intel Foundation

11:05 am (NYC): Unlocking Early Childhood Education

Moderator: Rob Doble, Director of Policy, Advocacy and Programs, Theirworld

Panelists:
Alice Albright, CEO, Global Partnership for Education
Saima W. Hossain, Chairperson, Shuchona Foundation; Chairperson, Bangladesh National Advisory Committee for Autism
Peter Laugharn, President and CEO, Conrad N. Hilton Foundation
Eden Tadesse, Global Youth Ambassador, Theirworld

11:35 am (NYC): Unlocking Finance for Education

Moderator: Justin van Fleet, President, Theirworld; Executive Director, Global Business Coalition for Education

Panelists:
Franz Fayot, Minister for Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Affairs, Luxembourg
Mamta Murthi, Vice President for Human Development, World Bank
Sarah Musau, Global Youth Ambassador, Theirworld
Baroness Liz Sugg, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State; Prime Minister’s Special Envoy for Girls’ Education, United Kingdom

12:00 pm (NYC): Unlocking Big Change

Moderator: June Sarpong OBE, Broadcaster and Best Selling Author
Gordon Brown, UN Special Envoy for Global Education
Henrietta Fore, Executive Director, UNICEF

Concluding Remarks: Amina Mohammed, Deputy Secretary-General, United Nations

Breakout Sessions

12:30pm-1:00pm – How Norway is Unlocking Big Change for Education

Featured Guest: Aksel Jacobsen, State Secretary, Norway

Host: Lorriann Robinson, Theirworld and the Advocacy Team

Moderator: Yara Eid, Global Youth Ambassador, Theirworld

Join this special session where Theirworld Global Youth Ambassador Yara Eid will interview the Norwegian State Secretary for International Development and learn about what Norway is doing to unlock big change for education. Participants are encouraged to submit questions via the session chat function.

12:30pm-1:30 pm – Unlock Big Change: A RewirEd Talk hosted by Dubai Cares
Welcoming Remarks: Justin van Fleet, President, Theirworld; Executive Director, Global Business Coalition for Education

Moderator: Omar Tom, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Dukkan Media

Stefania Giannini, Assistant Director-General for Education, UNESCO
Henrietta Fore, Executive Director, UNICEF
Alice Albright, CEO, Global Partnership for Education
H.E. Dr. Tariq Al Gurg, CEO, Dubai Cares

Raj Gilda, CEO, Lend A Hand India
Mubuso Zamchiya, Managing Director, Luminos Fund
Jamira Burley, Head of Youth Engagement and Skills, Global Business Coalition for Education

Maryam Alhashimi, Associate, Expo Specialist Programme, Expo 2020 Dubai

RewirEd is a global platform launched by Dubai Cares to rewire education for a prosperous and sustainable future. Our first key initiative under this umbrella is RewirEd Talks, a global campaign that offers everyone the opportunity to host and participate in meaningful conversations on education.

This high-level Talk on the side-lines of the 75th UNGA, and taking place during the Unlock Big Change Virtual Event will be the first public Talk to take place. We are inviting participants from across various sectors, regions, and levels of experience to take part in an informal discussion on the future of education.

We invite everyone to take this opportunity to take off their organizational hats and participate in what we hope to be a relaxed conversation in an otherwise busy and hectic UNGA week.

Participants are encouraged to submit questions via the session chat function.

1:30pm-2:30pm – CEO Roundtable Discussion (Closed Meeting)

Moderator: Justin van Fleet, President, Theirworld; Executive Director, Global Business Coalition for Education

Hosts: Chip Goodyear, Chair, BHP Foundation and Sarah Brown, Executive Chair, Global Business Coalition for Education

This is a private roundtable for business CEOs only.

2:00pm-2:30pm – Realizing the Promise: How can education technology accelerate learning for all?

Featured Guest: Emiliana Vegas, Senior Fellow and Co-Director, Center for Universal Education, Brookings Institution

Host: Jake Cho, Senior Manager, Global Business Coalition for Education

While technology has disrupted most sectors of the economy and changed how we communicate, access information, work, and even play, its impact on schools, teaching, and learning has been much more limited. Alejandro Ganimian, Emiliana Vegas and Rick Hess argue that the limited impact of technology in education is primarily due to its having been used to replace analog tools, without much consideration given to playing to technology’s comparative advantages. When schools use technology to enhance the work of teachers and to improve the quality and quantity of educational content, students will thrive.

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Glasgow University- hub of humanity's engineers

thks for wonderful info- 12 years ago we started survey with sir fazle abed - which universities share their graduate alumni on digital sdgs - https://www.women4empowerment.net/ -abed's best friends in hong kong & singpaore are moving our collaboration maps onto metaverse so great time to share which ybu's experts want their women grads to be the sdg gen www.beeings.app

When I first met fazle abed, MOOCs were quite new. He said i would love my knowhow to be Massive, Open, Online but why isn't C for Collaboration. I did a lot of research of american moocs including the first with a million person audience (some of whom I sponsored to visit Fazle Abed). It soon became clear there was

no intent to reduce student debt (in 2020 largest than even credit card debt)

; no aim to empower students to select best in world tutors even for sdgs

; no attempt to design AI into education so that students own their skills dashboards

indeed no way to transforming learning as the economist's end poverty sub-editor and I begun to champion back in 1984

no way to directly fast track how beingai humanoid robots learn

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Whilst clearly a New Yorker like Dalio is far more financially successful than I , his rating of usa as very strong at education clearly isn't related to what millennials would need from education to be the first sustainability generation;
All in all having discovered western moocs would block sharing Abed's knowhow - his search for 5.4 platform of 100 asian universities sharing female graduates replicating community sustainability solutions becomes the most urgent search ever I can ever imagine

Nature's & Glasgow's Question- why are we the humans so bad at uniting around machines?

Please don't stop asking this question. 2021 November saw 2 weeks of world's most powerful people admitting they needed help from all 7.5 billion beings in answering this question- don't lets go back to national blame games. AS well as scientific successes, something went terribly wrong with the way the world of men and machines was mapped. What? Diaspora Scots (80% live worldwide, and our home isnt a nation recognised by either UN or EU) offer an unique diary on what machines started up out of Glasgow were used for : Revolution 1 power of machines; 2 world communications (death of distance) of machines) 3 multi-win opportunities of knowhow collaboration; 4 autonomous (real-time) op systems integrating information on natural & human interactions from every GPS .

We Scots are less than 1/400 of the human race so naturally our diary is not complete but its an open book - you could say if anyone has a vested interest in all peoples succeeding at the same time it is scots and that's also what tech 1945-2025 has been driving us to if we re-read architects of new tech like Einstein and Von Neumann.

Brave questions need mediating. Way Back in 1750-1776, when Americans wrote up their constitution- horse back man was the fastest way to communicate. Arguably, it made sense to centralise law instead of integrate a diversified democracy. There is an argument why guns were the only way to enforce the law at the birth of the USA; but hasn't innovation beyond that state of affairs advanced most places families love developing? Today over-centralisation in places like washington DC and Brussels makes no sense at all- look at the content of the blah blah that politicians in these 2 capitals have spent time on through 21st century's first 21 years- does any of it help the family, the small enterprise, the diversity of communities, integration of last mile health, nature's food and water sources?

When machines brought us the second revolution of media, one of the biggest mistakes of all may have been to get stuck with so-called democracy implying one of 2 opposite parties must be right on everything. Engineering life has been accelerating 360 degree opportunities and threats- futures that needed far smarter navigation than 2 parties expensively communicating they know it all when it turns out on life-critical issues like nature's climate, nature's food and water, nature's health systems neither party knew anything work legislating in stone. This is a huge opportunity for all peoples voices to entrepreneurially remap precisely what top-down systems cannot. If we haven't turned you off yet, please help interpret our notes- what went wrong when the first 180 years of machines ended in world war 2. What went right and wrong in each of these periods:

1945-1962

1962-1984

1984-2001

2001-2021

WE have chosen those slightly odd time periods as it happens Adam Smith aluni notes debating where was history spiraling the future got filed away in those sections. That's just one diaspora scottish view; if the place you love most tipped at a uniquely different date we'd love to hear from you chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk

Glasgow ecop26 LAUNCH NEW ECONOMICS JOURNAL - thank you Adam Smith and Asian Women Empowerment friends of transformative education 1 2 3
worldrecordjobs.com: we advise that 2020s peoples gain a lot from knowing of 3 Glasgow engineers first : James Watt (invented steam engine to improve health services -so fathered industrial revolution 1 ,2 before Von Neumann IR3, IR4) , adam smith whose 3 ideas are the foundations of entrepreneurial transformation. 150 years of editorial at The Economist whose origin was helping Queen Victoria transform from slavemaking empire to commonwealth, and sustainability's/Adaptability's most practice-proven mapmaker over the last half century: abed bhai: chief practice connector of billion poorest village women 2019-1970 Adams 1-2-3 markets sustain humans when enough buyers, sellers, suppliers know the price and quaility of all the offers engines were such a revolution in human possibilities that all places/peoples needed equal access to wherever humans design systems -compound futures - they need to integrate with nature's evolutionary and health systems which are bottom-up and borderless what helped adam value these 3 logics : he entered glasgow university at 14 and oxford as a graduate at 17- he was shocked that unlike glasgow professors were most concerned with their own power and that of london bureaucrats- youth even graduate youth were just a distraction ; unlike Glasgow where teachers and students practised getting better - as it turned out the essential experience of engineering and maths genii - oxford of the 1750s was concerned with how old people network more and more power to rule over others- some people argue that oxford didnt change until rhodes scholarship introduced diversity; having lived in oxbridge circles but pioneered research of true and fake media out of glasgow and north of england universities .

Welcome to our family of 50 Collaboration-blogs currently sub-edited by Chris Macrae, exponentials maths library (eg biography of john von neumann , chartering blended network's most purposeful multipliers of systems) of works at The Economist that inspired my father Norman Macrae Order of Rising Sun 3rd Class and CBE- until the worldwideweb replaced the mediation responsibility of the pen - see our joint edited 1984 futures book 2025report. My bias - 5 generations of Diaspora scots both on dad and mom's sude - so I still prefer to refresh my brain in Glasgow than other western universities; Equally I have experienced a lot of kindness among graduates of Asian universities (Beijing, Tokyo, Dhaka Singapore, HK as next year will be 40th since I started working initially for Unilever in Indonesia) but that has been in role of exploring translations of diversely different worlds ...sandwiched between my Asian development i spent a decade at western world's largest ad agencies and biggest management consultants Overall on my earthling's EconomistAsia.net journey: povertyuni.com abedmooc.com ebrac.com alibrac.com 13 years of mapping billion asian womens entrepreneurial revolution of Sustainability Goal 1-5 systems the greatest privilege

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Can you help with the Neumann-SDGAI awards starting with goal 1 - nominations such as

Neumann

Reddy

Fei-Fei Li

J Yang

Kai-Fu Lee

,,,

Would you like to help billion poorest women lead 36 most collaborative networks of ending poverty and adapting climate?

What we can see from half a century of work on this is that ending poverty requires unending attention to the 5 primary goals - we offer 6 ways in from 1970-1995 where partnerships were sought for women with no electricity ie all networking was person to person; from 1996 when solar and mobile empowered some of the most extraordinary partnerships in leaping through 240 years of having no engines; what is now called urgent networking of climate adaptability needs revisting what goal 5 100% inclusive communities menas when you blend it with goal 17 corporations and public servants - as well as 6 collaborations xfactoring 2020s greatest tech and human wizardry as mapped across all other UN sd goals 6-16
goal 5 100% livesmatter communities 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6;
4 livelihood edu for all 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 ref deep background thanks to Safiqul Islam
3 last mile health services 3.1 3,2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 last mile nutrition , deep background paul farmer , soros central euru, jim kim , friends of James grant
2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2,6 deep background -japan rural keynesianism since 1962, borlaug alumni networks
banking for all workers 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6. deep background shameran abed..

abed inspired 2021 edu is sdg gen summits

with un and dubai -un envoy gordon brown (edcom west LS edcom east) unicef fore dubai cares al gurdg subai youth minister dubai-itu dubai-weform unesco .. oecd .. un liaison-edu-refugee-youth-sherif

with yidan, tencent luminarues panel- interhemisphere annual hosts, .wirh being edulife summit

with qatarwise 6 laureaes main tour hosts sponsors advisers

contact washington dc mobile and whats app (1) 240 316 8157 chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk to help update collaboration maps - see also abed-mooc; abed-games; -- abeduni.com --a norman macrae young journalists for humanity co= project -year 37 of 1984 countdown 2025report - thks to who's girls heroines who -ecop26.com economistdiary.com adamsmith.app glasgowsdgs.com worldrecordjbs.com

..	Spring 2016: it was abed's 80th birthday party; the forecourt of brac's office sprouted a tent -inside a display akin to a madame tussauds show guided visitors through village development over 4.5 decades; two youthful chinese female provincial graduates -one who grew up in mao's hunan, the other grew up in the province bordering north korea were there to observe; this is the translation story they were given as a souvenir -dear friends of women empowerment across asia - please celebrate with us::..
.	HAPPY 80^th BIRTHDAY – Sor Fazle Abed, BRAC, Bangladesh 45 Years of Building the Most Valuable Network on Sustainability Youth’s Planet 1 RESILIENCE NOT JUST RELIEF –INNOVATION’s CORE OF BOTTOM-UP DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS The seeds of BRAC were planted in the efforts of Sir Fazle and friends to assist families affected by the Brola cyclone in 1970. BRAC was then officially established after independence, supporting refugees to rebuild their lives. At a critical early juncture , we abandoned our focus on relief and adopted a longer-term objective of development, opting to work side by side with community members for decades to come. We do not ignore emergencies and their impact on people living in poverty. We build community preparedness and grassroots platforms that activate in natural disasters to minimize damage and to channel relief. Our goal is to help households bounce back better. Better often means changes such as stronger infrastructure or new livelihoods for families that depend on agriculture, for example, and are therefore increasingly vulnerable to climate change. As Bangladesh urbanizes, we have expanded our focus to include manmade disasters like fires and building collapses, most recently Rana Plaza in 2013. Massive natural disasters internationally have triggered us to expand into new countries like Haiti and Nepal to support national recovery the way we did in Bangladesh so many years ago 2 Healthy Lives and healthy futures Doctors and hospitals were scarce in Bangladesh’s early days. We created an army of community-based entrepreneurs to bring medicine to every doorstep. Over time, the army became all female, challenging social norms and enabling women to access important products and information We challenged the global health community by putting the life saving treatment for diarrheal disease in the “unqualified” hands of mothers, and generated evidence that they could use it effectively. We created a community-based tuberculosis control model, expanding over time to become the government’s largest partner in combating the disease. The growing numbers of people living in poverty in urban areas face serios health risks, including maternal and infant mortality. Our network of healthcare entrepreneurs continues to ensure that women can access care safely, quickly, and with dignity. Recent breakthroughs in cognitive science have shown that focusing on early childhood development has transformative effects over a lifetime. Pilot programmes are putting this research into action at the grassroots level The primary challenge of healthcare now is less about access and more about quality. We are building financial tools to continuously ensure more people can access services that meet their evolving health needs. 3 EDUCATION FROM LITERACY TO LEADERSHIP We started by teaching basic literacy to adults, then realised we needed to start from the start. We changed lour nor-formal primary schools as “second chances’ for people living in poverty especially girls. Our pedagogy focused on joyful learning, incorporating the best practices from around the world. As students graduated from our schools. We felt a need for creative ways to continue learning beyond the classroom. Libraries offered reading materials, and adolescent clubs created safe spaces and opportunities to teach life skills. Our focus moved towards quality, with universal access towards education in sight, through strategies such as teacher training and increased use of technology. We proactively recruited students with special needs and expanded our curriculum into multiple ethnic languages to ensure that our schools were successful to all children. Our ultiimate goal is to build a nation, and for that we need leaders. That is where our focus is now – creating opportunities for youth to take responsibilities in programmes, as mentors, and as teachers themselves. Our university creates even more opportunities to contribute on a global scale. 4 Financial Inclusion We started by bringing people living in poverty together. We quickly learnt that what they needed most urgently was access to economic opportunities and financial services. We brought women together into village organizations to organize credit and savings arrangements, and then used these meetings as a platform by delivering a wider range of services. Over time, we expanded our reach to unserved populations, such as the “missing middle” (enterprises that were too large for the loans offered by microfinance but excluded from commercial banks) and a comprehensive grants based programme for people living with poverty, who could not benefit from microfinance. We are now building a broader set of financial products, including insurance and pensions, and leveraging the growing ownership of mobile phones to use digital channels for financial services. 5 Market Solutions for the Poor A fundamental driver is a lack of power – at the individual, household and community level alike... Power dynamics need to change in order for people living in poverty to realize their potential , and they only change when people do it themselves. We promoted consciousness raising and empowerment from our earliest interactions with communities, inspired by teachings on social movements. We underestimated the complexity of power dynamics though and learned the hard way that we needed to create new organisations, where women could come together in solidarity. These community action groups became important social platforms; for example, supporting health workers who faced harassment for their services. We widened our work over time to help people living in poverty to participate in formal government structures and leverage public services. We also increased our engagement with public official and village leaders to build wider support for women’s empowerment. These discussions have risen to the national level, where we advocate policies that support gender equality and human rights. Internally we have worked to build a female-friendly work environment and actively strive to recruit women. Gender equality remains one of the greatest unfinished works of our generation, and an area in which we have to continue changing power dynamics. We still see that child marriage is the norm, sexual violence is pervasive, and women are under-represented in the workforce. 6 Changing Power Dynamics As we began to provide financial services to people living in poverty, we noticed that many rural communities did not have access to markets We started building value chains, connecting thousands of farmers and artisans to national markets. We focused on silk, poultry, clothing and retail, in many cases the viability of new sectors in Bangladesh. The successful scaling up of one value chain often spawned new livelihood opportunities, from poultry vaccinations to artificial insemination for dairy cows. Entrepreneurship is also a long standing part of our development approach. Over time we have built a national cadre of local change agents, usually women, who receive training and support from us, but are paid for their services by their neighbours. These grassroots entrepreneurs distribute a wide variety of products and services, from sanitary napkins to high quality seeds. As local and global labor markets offer new opportunities. We are supporting migrants to seek and finance work abroad safely, and equip youth with in-demand skills 7 BRAC INTERNATIONAL By 2002 we had over 30 years experience of piloting and perfecting programs, and scaling them to reach millions. The time had come to bring what we had learnt in Bangladesh to the rest of the world. Relief and rehabilitation were immediate needs after war and natural disasters plunged millions into poverty in Afghanistan and Sri Lanka. We focused on peace and building stability through jobs, education and financial inclusion, continuing to put girls and women at the centre of opportunities. We expanded into Africa four years later, starting development programs in Tanzania and Uganda. We continued to pilot, perfect and scale rapidly never losing focus on contextualising every opportunity created Opening now in 12 countries gives us a rich knowledge base to further our work in Bangladesh, while providing us with a global network in which to pilot new solutions for the world’s problems. In 2016, we create opportunities for one in every 50 people in the world.
...	====================== related stranded asset debates scribbled in 1984 our book reporting prep for sdg generation 2025 argued that we the peoples needed to lead ahead of time if fintech healthtech edutech were to be mediated let alone schooled round humansai so that all lives matter chapter 6 chapter 7 chapter 8 chapter 9 chapter 10 chapter 11 part 1 chapter 11 part 2 chapter 12 chapter 13 chapter 14 chapter 15 chapter 16 chapter 17 chapter 18 chapter 19 chapter 21 SEPTEMBER 2020 HAPPY UN75 which zooms celebrating un 75th birthday empower every community to win at sustainability and which events can others stage just in time for youth to be the sdg generation? being a lead economist at the un is complex- as anyone who read last chapter of keynes general theory of money, interest, employment will know - the best an economist can do is compound one goal's exponential progress- without such a gravity what happens -all goals collapse - eg see this whistlebower ex wall street - currently 300 trillion dollars of western pension money refuses to recognise any sdg investment as asset grade see this harvard professor on why borderless coalitions are the only way our race can prevent extinction ever since our 1984 book 2025 report with the economist's poverty sub-editor - what we have not sought to mediate is the world will end in 2030- we are saying children wont exist in the 22nd century unless all nature and all lives matter to the last 3 generations-half under 30, those who parent typically under 60, those who grandparent over 60= who can co-create the new new world- so as pope francis asks why is the eu designed as a system for haggard infertile grandmothers exponential history is often censored but to see how it can trap all of us in failing lives-matter: go back to 1760 glasgow uni adam smith, james watt the start up epicentre of humans and machines- after 185 years instread of all lives matter in age of industrial revolution slavery and genocide had led to 2 world wars, atom bombs, about 12% of humans empiring over most of the rest, and one hope the birth of the united nations; today in 2020 less than 8 decades have led us to a trillion times moore technology but the country of 5% of people who has first comers advantage in designing most of this tech can even trace a virus while 1.5 billion people who used to be among the poorest in the world in 1945 can any elder in decision-making power who says the un should not beg or business everyone to make the most of lessons for saving humanity from both chinese and english speaking worlds needs to be quarantined for the rest of their lives so they never again destroy freedom of lives matter actions, lessons and speech humanising machine intel now that is not a political job, nay its not a supreme court job, it is a practice engineering-architecture-multidisciplinary community labor of love- it needs every last mile practice skill under the sun as this world banker proclaimed in 2013

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CHINA DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH FOUNDATION
Director
China

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Mary E. Young, MD, DrPH, is a pediatrician and specialist in global health and child development with broad experience in both developed and developing countries. For the past three decades, she worked at the World Bank, guiding efforts in international public health and child health and development. Currently, she is Director of Center for Child Development at the China Development Research Foundation, Senior Advisor to Harvard University’s Center on the Developing Child, and Technical Advisor to Brazil's Criança Feliz Program. During her tenure at the World Bank, she led global efforts to inform world leaders and policymakers about Early Childhood Development (ECD). Her experience spans the globe—from China, to Eastern Europe and Central Asia, to the Middle East and North Africa, and to Latin America and the Caribbean. Dr. Young’s recent publications and edited works include: The Role of the Health Sector in Promoting Well-being in Early Childhood (2017) in The SAGE Handbook of Early Childhood Policy. Converting the science of early human development into action: closing the gap between what we know and what we do. (2015) in The SAGE Handbook of Early Childhood Research; Addressing and Mitigating Vulnerability across the Life Cycle: The Case for Investing in Early Childhood. (2014), for the UNDP Human Development Report; The Role of the Health Sector in Early Childhood Development (2013) in the Handbook of Early Childhood Development: Translating Research to Global Policy; From Early Child Development to Human Development (2001); (published also in Portuguese, Chinese, and Arabic), and Early Child Development—From Measurement to Action: A Priority for Growth and Equity (2007) (also available in Portuguese and on CD-Rom); Lancet series on ECD (2007). And, she has published numerous articles on the Chinese health care system, focusing on child health and maternal health.

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Biography

Gloria Ai is a broadcast personality, host, and the founder of iAsk Media. She is the producer and host of 3 programs by her company that runs daily, weekly and seasonally. As a moderator, she is frequently invited by high-level business and leadership summits including World Economic Forum, APEC and the Boao Forum for Asia. Prior to launching iAsk Media in March 2014, she presented business and financial news as a lead anchor at CCTV and covered international financial policy as an investment consultant for IFC in Washington, D.C. She holds a Masters in Public Policy from Harvard Kennedy School and is a Global Shaper with the World Economic Forum. In 2016 she received the award Forbes 30 under 30 Asia. In the same year, Gloria Ai joined SAIF as a Venture Partner, focusing on equity investment in media and big data.

Ms Jialing Han
21ST CENTURY EDUCATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE
Deputy President
China

Biography

Jialing Han received her doctoral degree at Peking University in 1997. She has been a researcher at Beijing Academy of Social Science since 1999, and leads the Migrant Education and Action Research Center (MWEAC) as director. She is also Vice President at 21st Century Education Research Institute. Between 2000 and 2001, she led a UNICEF-sponsored project to investigate migrant workers, migrant children, and migrant schools in Beijing. The research was ground breaking and had very positive impact on the policy-making for migrant children’s education. She also conducts action research on the education pattern for migrant children, exploring how to ensure migrant children's equal access to education and mainstream migrant children in the education. Founded in 1999, MWEAC offers a variety of activities for migrant workers and migrant children and provides valuable experience and a practical model for community-based service for rural-urban migrants.

Ms Min Zha
21ST CENTURY EDUCATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE
Associate Researcher
China

Biography

Researcher on education innovation in China, especially on homeschooling and small innovative schools.

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HUJIANG.COM
CEO and Founder
China

Biography

Arnold Fu, founder, chairman and CEO of Hujiang, is a young Chinese man who was born in a small town of Lianyungang City, Jiangsu province in 1979. He has never dreamed of becoming a millionaire. Instead, he hopes to help as many people as he can. As a notable young entrepreneur and one of the most successful student-turned businessmen in China, Fu was also named as ‘Makers & Shakers’ on the list of Global EdTech Index top 50 by WISE. Today, Hujiang has become China’s EdTech Unicorn company with valuation over 1 billion USD and has served more than 150 million users, including 120 million mobile subscribers. As for Mr. Fu, online education is crucial to promoting fair education across the board by creating more equal access to educational resources, and he has adhered to this ideal for over 10 years. Fu has long been devoted to an educational charity program called the Hu+(Hujia) Project. Initiated by his company, Hujiang EdTech, this project aims to change the traditional education model through the use of internet technology. The Hu+ Project both improves and optimizes the sharing of high-quality educational resources. Under his leadership, Hujiang’s mission is to make education easier, fairer and more enjoyable!

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CHINA DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH FOUNDATION
Director
China

Biography

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X SCHOOL

R & D Supervisor

China

Biography

Michael Bowen Zhang is the founder of Global Citizens Training School in Jilin, China. He redefined “bad students” and “poor students” with his great endeavor and has helped 32 of them to get scholarships as much as 20 million Chinese Yuan from top universities in Asia, including HKU, HKSTU, and Singapore National University. He believes the normally called “bad students” usually have great talents, but for some reason are not shining, and the “poor students” are from economically disadvantaged students, NOT poor performance students. He has nurtured the training school to be the biggest one with over than 10,000 students in the local community will national reputation. In 2015, he cofounded the X SCHOOL in Beijing with his wife Angel Mi Lin to prepare students from the whole country to involve in international education, survive in international environment and thrive in globalization era. X SCHOOL has become a national leading organization in the innovation education sector. Over 50 parents have joined together as crowd investors to help with the growth of X SCHOOL, and more parents are joining every single day.

Ms Mengyuan Zhang
CAIXIN
Journalist
China

Biography

My name is Mengyuan Zhang (I go by Effy), serving as Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Caixin Globus, an international new media incubator branch of Caixin Media Group based in Beijing, China. I head news gathering desk, account for important interviews, last-stage editing and networking with worldwide contributors.Prior to joining Caixin, I was International Journalist for China’s premier news site SOHU.com.I received my BA from Jilin University and MA in International Journalism Studies from Hong Kong Baptist University.

Dr. Gao Zhang

BAIDU EDUCATION

Director

China

Biography

General Manager of Baidu Education Zhang Gao is director of Baidu Education. He leads the educational programs at Baidu to facilitate education equality and personalized learning. Dr. Zhang received his Ph.D. in area of Computer Science at Software Institute of CAS. He has rich work experience in area of research and products of computational technologies, and marketing.

Mr. Zhihai Yu

SOCIAL LEARNING INTERACTIVE

Founder

China

Domains of expertise

Lifelong Learning

Centres of interest

Education reform and innovation
Higher Education

Biography

I am a Social Entrepreneur from China, the creator of 1KG Box which is finalist of WISE Awards 2016. Now I am building an online lifelong learning school to reinvent lifelong learning.

Ms Guo Shulan

CENTRAL CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC

Head

China

Biography

Guo Shulan, researcher，is Director of the Organizing Committee for the Music Education Alliance Across the "Belt and Road" . Ms. Guo now serves as executive director of Beijing Municipal Higher Education Institution, Chairwoman of the CCOM Music Education Foundation as well as chairwoman of the Art Education Research Association under Beijing Municipal Higher Education Institution. Ms. Guo's research focuses are art education policies and regulations, history of art education, art education management and overseas promotion of Chinese music culture. Her published works include History of the Art Circle (co-author), A Collection of the Brief History of the Chinese Art Universities, etc. Her published research papers include “ Vigorous Development of Art Education in China”, “The Cultivation of Musicians for the 21st Century Calls for the Full Implementation of Quality-oriented Education”，“Development Planning and Strategies of Modern Universities”, “Cultivating Top-notch Creative Art Talents and Enhancing Creativity in Culture & Arts’, “Interactive and Comprehensive Model: a New Method to Promote Chinese Music Abroad”, etc. Her research report titled “Thoughts on the Development Model of CCOM” was an awarded teaching science paper of Beijing in 2008. She presided and completed the research programs of “Reform and Practice of Professional Music Talents Education” and “Innovate Cadre Administration and Improve Scientific Management (collective)”. Both programs were sponsored by the Ministry of Education. The latter one got the “Award of Excellence” by the Ministry of Education in 2010. She completed the research program of “Practice and Research on the Brand Building of Party Construction in Art universities of Art”, which won the “Excellence Award” of Society of Party Construction in Higher Education Institutes of Beijing.

Mr. Boyu Zhang
MUSIC EDUCATION ALLIANCE ACROSS THE SILK ROAD
Head
China

Biography

Dr. Zhang Boyu is Professor of Ethnomusicology at Department of Musicology, Central Conservatory of Music; Vice-Chairman of Chinese Traditional Music Association and China’s World Music Association; member of Academic Advisory Board of Humanities Faculty of Helsinki University (2011–2014). He is the author of five research books and Over 100 articles in both Chinese and English. His research is cross-cultural and interdisciplinary, focusing mainly on the meanings of traditional musics in their societies. Since 2011, he has been working as the director of the Central Conservatory of Music Press and Intangible Cultural Heritage Research Centre.

Ms Liu Xiaojing

CENTRAL CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC

Artist

China

Biography

Liu Xiaojing, is a pipa teacher at the Central Conservatory of Music. She learned to play pipa under Professor Zhang Hongyan, a famous pipa player and educator. Liu received professional scholarships several times during her college years. In 2013, she was selected by the Conservatory as the volunteer teacher of the world's first music Confucius institute in Denmark. She graduated in 2015 and appointedby the school as a teacher. She has won many international and national competitions, as well as national scholarships and the title of “outstanding student of Beijing”. She has performed in various parts of the country, as well as traveling to Japan, the United States, Africa, the United Arab Emirates, and other festivals around the world, such as in Europe, NorthAmerica, and the Middle East. She works to promote Chinese music culture. She has recorded a pipa album and recorded a TV program together with Professor Zhang Hongyan on CCTV.

Ms Feng Tianshi
CENTRAL CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC
Artist
China

Biography

Feng Tianshi’s musical talent has graced the stages of music festivals across the world. She has performed on four continents, including Europe, Asia, Africa and North America. Additionally, she has received multiple scholarships for academic excellence and is currently pursuing her Master's Degree at the prestigious Central Conservatory of Music, studying Chinese bamboo flute with renowned flute master, Professor Dai Ya. Ms. Feng has won numerous prizes in both international and national competitions, including five gold medals and two “Best Performance” prizes. Most notably, she was honored with the 2014 Grand Prize in the Wen Hua Chinese Musical Instruments Competition organized by the Ministry of Culture.

Ms Liu Zhuojun
CENTRAL CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC
Artist
China

Biography

Liu Zhuojun, studying with professor Jiang Jianhua, is now pursuing her postgraduate studies at the Central Conservatory of Music . Liu has performed in many countries, including the United States, Canada, Germany, Australia, South Korea etc. In addition, she has won various scholarships and achievement awards on and off campus. Liu's excellent performance on the stage.has won numerous international and national awards, including five gold medals and two silver awards, the most influential of which is the national culture ministry award.

Mr. Dun Xiao
SUNNY EDUCATION INC. (17ZUOYE, A.K.A. HOMEWORK TOGETHER)
Manager of project
China
Domains of expertise
Early Childhood and Primary Education
Education Technologies
Centres of interest
Early Childhood and Primary Education
Education Technologies

Biography

Dun Xiao is co-founder of 17zuoye.com (a.k.aHomework Together), the largest online homework platform for K12 students in China. Dun is also co-founder of Dun & Huang Ltd., one of the earliest leading education APP developers in iOS store and has had over 8 years of experience with education technology. Prior to his entrepreneurial life, Dun has been involved with organising the Beijing and London Olympic and Paralympic Games, and as a Derivatives Trader in UBS. Dun serves on the board of a few education related NGOs and is passionate about philanthropy. Dun enjoys triathlon and playing the trumpet regularly. Dun has studied in Cambridge, MIT and Harvard University, and graduated with a Master's degree in Electrical and Information Engineering from Cambridge University.

Dr. Yan Wang

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION SCIENCES OF CHINA

Director of the Department for International Exchange

China

Domains of expertise

Education Administration
International Studies

Biography

WANG Yan has been APEC Education Network Coordinator since 2015. She is concurrently Director of International Cooperation and Senior Specialist at the National Institute of Education Sciences of the People's Republic of China. Her research focuses on education policy, education reform, social studies of education and international studies. In cooperation with international organizations, government agencies, and research institutions, she has designed and implemented more than one hundred qualitative and quantitative research projects on various education topics. She has authored, co-authored and edited numerous articles, reports, journal and books on various educational topics. In her prior role, she was consultant at the World Bank, and curriculum specialist and coordinator of international programs at Beijing Education Research Institute. She holds a Ph.D. of education policy, administration and social studies from the University of Hong Kong, a Master of Educational Economics and Administration and a first degree in English Literature.

Professor Weihe Xie

TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY

Director of the Institute of Education

China

Biography

Research Interests: - Principle of Education - Educational Sociology - Pedagogy of Higher Education Education: 1988, Ph.D. of Philosophy, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China 1985, Master of Philosophy, Nanjing University, Jiangsu Province, China 1982, Bachelor of Philosophy, Xiamen University, Fujian Province, China Employment: 2016~Now, Vice Chairman, Tsinghua University Council 2004~2015, Vice President, Tsinghua University 2002~2004, Chairman of University Council, Capital Normal University 1992~2002, Vice President, Beijing Normal University 1989~1992, Vice Dean, Department of Youth Education, Beijing Youth Politics College Membership: Vice President of the Chinese Society of Education Vice Director of National Council of Higher Educational Management Research

Ms Tianjiao Xing
TEACH FOR THE FUTURE
CEO
China

Biography

Teddy is the founder and CEO of Teach for the Future, which aims to empower education with great teachers. Teach for the Future now works with over 20 thousand teachers globally and 200 educational institutions and schools to work on the teacher recruitment, training and management works.

Ms Wanqiu Yuan

U-SHINE RESEARCH CENTER FOR CHILD DEVELOPMENT

Director

China

Biography

Ms. Wanqiu Yuan is the founder and director of U-Shine Research Center for Child Development, Chongqing, China. Her main reseaech interests include: developmental cognitive neuroscience, applied psychology in child study and education, solution for children with attention disorders, etc. U-Shine Research Center for Child Development, founded in 2016 with headquarters in Chongqing, China, is a research institute for Chinese children’s learning abilities. It is in longterm cooperation with the Department of Psychology of Southwest University and Chongqing Federation of Social Science Circles. It aims at both the physical and the mental healthy development of children, and has carried out research projects related to learning abilities, such as solution for children with attention disorder problems, EQ Training Courses for Chinese children, Sensory Intergration Course, etc. It also helps the parents solving problems in family education and offers services like consulting and parents’ salon.

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Ms Zhennan Huan
NETEASE
Director of Operation, NetEase Education
China

Biography

Zhennan Huan,a former journalist and now the director of the education department of NetEase company, is one of the founders of NetEase Open Course.

Mr. Allen Rao
NETEASE ONLINE OPEN COURSES
Global Business Director
China

Biography

I'm the Operation Director of Netease Online Open Courses which is the biggest open course education platform in China with more than 4700 app users.

Mr. Wenjin Xiao
NETEASE
Founding Member, China University MOOC
China

Biography

Wenjin is the content manager at NetEase Education Department. He is leading and managing the team to develop the online courses about lifestyle, health, Chinese traditional culture, skill learning, sex education, parenting education and STEAM education at the online learning platform NetEase Cloud Classroom. As the project leader, he build the first online sex education curriculum system in China . He is also the founding member of China University MOOC which is the most popular MOOC platform in Greater China. More than 2 million users use their products every day.

Mr. Shengli Huang
21st CENTURY EDUCATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE
Chief Executive Officer
China

Biography

CEO of 21st Century Education Research Institute

Ms Juanjuan Huang
LEAPCLUB EDUCATION
Co-Founder & CEO
China
Domains of expertise
Project-based learning practice in social emotional learning

Biography

Amanda Huang obtained BSc Economic from London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. Amanda was the co-founder of Ofund (Overseas Chinese Students Children's Fund) and the Secretary General of Ofund since 2007. Ofund is a non-profit organisation dedicated to change the impact of education to deprived children and their community in the underdeveloped area of China. She also cofounded Leap Club which is a social enterprise dedicated to the moulding of youngsters’ social graces, communication, interpersonal awareness, and leadership qualities.

Ms Rujia Mao
LEAP CLUB EDUCATION
Project mentor
China

Biography

Rujia Mao holds BSc. (Honors) degree in Psychology from Memorial University of Newfoundland (Canada). Rujia has studied the influence of peripheral information in memory and interested in cultivate cognitive abilities. She is now working at Leap Club as a project mentor and dedicate to evoke teenagers' self-awareness as well as empathy towards others.

r. Yifu Mo
LEAP CLUB EDUCATION
Head of Programme Coordinator
China

Biography

Yifu Mo studied anthropology in the University of Washington – Seattle from 2008 to 2012. He was the initiator of Shenzhen Middle School Model United Nations which became one of the most influential Model UN student organization in south China. Mr. Mo is dedicated to promote project-based learning and social learning in China’s young generation. As the head of program coordinator of Leap Club Education, he manages to provide students real-world experience and to empower them with the ability of creative thinking and awareness of social responsibility.

Ms Chenxia Miao
BEIJING NEWS
Editor of Education Channel
China

Ms Yuhang Song
CAIXIN GLOBUS
Chief Editor
China

Ms Jilian Ma
CAIXIN
Journalist
China

Mr. Xiao Chi
KIID SCHOOL
Founder
China
Centres of interest
teenagers education
gamification

Biography

Xiao Chi is the founder of Kiid School（钥匙玩校）, an education effort aiming to provide alternative experiences for teenagers by non-exam-oriented summer camps and weekend courses. Kiid school believes in the power of gamification and educational games, so it is an interesting place where kids learn how to build, code, work together, and even how to design a Rube Goldberg machine or make a movie through play-based learning. Xiao Chi is also the founder of Curionesty micro school（好奇学校）, aim to cultivate students, ages 12 to 18, to become lifelong learners with the ability to face uncertainty of future by liberal reading, sports gaming, tools training, independent thinking and real value creation. Original comprehensive subjects such as singlish, globraphy, thanatology, classical drama, history of civilization, social research, computer science, engineering project and themed study tours are compulsory, while other topics are elective and based on the students' interests. Xiao Chi was a full-time volunteer in Liren Rural Library，the NGO had run 22 libraries in 10 Chinese provinces. Xiao Chi was also the project director of Liren Normal School(立人师范学堂), an innovation civic school for Chinese youth who wants to be a participator in education reform by entrepreneuring. Xiao Chi was a board member of Arete Education & Technology Co., Ltd. Xiao Chi is also a wechat blog writer.

Ms Jiqi Yang
EY ADVISORY
Senior Consultant
China
Domains of expertise
General Business Operations

Biography

Jiqi is originally from China and has lived in Canada for 8 years. After graduating from University of Alberta with a BA of Commerce, Jiqi spent two years in Shell as a business analyst and currently works at EY Advisory as a senior consultant. Jiqi is WISE learner for cohort. She is part of Peak-A-Box project, an education product for early childhood education in refugee camps. Through the 1 year with WISE program, Jiqi, along with 4 other learners, closely worked with organizations on the ground and education professionals to develop and pilot Peak-A-Box, an innovation tool to empower teachers and facilitators to organize quality education session. Jiqi spends most of her free time in exploring possible combinations of social impact and business, and her dream is to bring changes to the world through developing and advocating social enterprises.

Ms Boya Yang
THE AFFILIATED MIDDLE OF KUNMING TEACHERS COLLEGE AND KUNMING YANGLAOSHI EDUCATION INFORMATION CONSULTING CO. LTD
Teacher, Psychologist and CEO,
China

Biography

Boya Yang, from China, is a teacher, psychologist and the 2016 Fellow at the Harvard SEED program for social innovation. Boya offers vulnerable students and their parents psychological guidance, supporting parent-child communication and providing appropriate assistance and referrals in some cases. She has established a center in her city with a program to help teenagers with professional advice and support. Boya has also created and led a group of teachers at local schools who work to implement and support personal and social education. This model of psychology education has reached more than 80,000 teenagers, teachers, and parents. Boya has also developed psychology courses to raise student awareness, increase their sense of agency and support their empowerment. Boya is the first Chinese teacher named on the list of top ten candidates for the Global Teacher Prize organized by the Varkey Foundation. She is also a famous young social activist in the philanthropy sector and was selected as the Quick Pitch Award Winner of the 2017 Global Social Venture Competition. Boya has also made speeches and given interviews on her work at national conferences and with local media outlets.

Mr. Qilin Huang
BOTTLEDREAM
Editor
China
Domains of expertise
Social Entrepreneurship
Centres of interest
Innovation in education
The future of higher education

Biography

Qilin Huang (who also goes by Kirin) works as a journalist in BottleDream, a trend-setter of social innovation in China. Having diverse volunteer experience in non-profits from China, India, Nepal to United States and interviewed hundreds of ChangeMakers, she has developed a proactive network of those who are enabling sustainable progress in a social good way. Eager to learn more about 「Education For Good」, she is now ready to meet her next interviewees in WISE summit. In free time, she loves traveling, playing ukulele and singing with the kids on the way.

Mr. Clive Lee
YIDAN PRIZE FOUNDATION
CEO
China

Biography

Clive is the CEO of Yidan Prize Foundation which was established by Mr. Charles Chen Yidan, core founder of Tencent to advance education development through recognising innovative future-oriented educators in research and development categories. Each Yidan Prize laureate shall receive HKD 30 million (around USD 3.8 million) with half as cash prize and half as project subsidies. Clive has rich experience in social sectors including philanthropy, nonprofits, foundation, social entrepreneurship, corporate social responsibility and think tanks. He has received numerous recognition for his contribution, e.g. Hong Kong Youth Service Award presented by Chief Executive, HKSAR, Clinton Global Initiative University Scholar, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Prof. Muhammad Yunus' Grameen Creative Lab Incubatee, Harvard University IMUSE Fellows and Oxfam International Youth Partnership Trainer.

Mr. Lawrence Lui
YIDAN PRIZE FOUNDATION
Director of Global Communications
China

Biography

Mr. Lawrence Lui is the Global Communications Director of Yidan Prize Foundation. Prior to his current position, he has nearly a decade of experience in consultancy. While he founded the first public relations firm specifically for social enterprises in Hong Kong, he had experience in serving multinational clients when he was a consultant of Weber Shandwick. In 2015, he was instrumental in helping Hong Kong to win the bid for organizing Social Enterprise World Forum. As an enthusiast in volunteering, he co-founded IDEA Project, building schools in developing countries such as Cambodia, India and Nepal. He was also named Clinton Global Initiative University Scholar and Schoenfeld Foundation ECSEL Fellow. Mr. Lui holds a bachelor’s degree in Social Science in Public Relations and Advertising from Hong Kong Baptist University.

Ms Maggie Tang
YIDAN PRIZE FOUNDATION
Administration Director
China

Biography

Maggie Tang is the Administration Director in Yidan Prize Foundation, which has a mission to create a better world through education. Her recent focus is about NGO governance and financing although she has extensive experiences in commercial sector for the last twenty years. She lives in Hong Kong, is studying a Master in Buddhist Studies and is trying to practice meditation.

Mr. David Wong
CHEN YIDAN FOUNDATION
Associate Director - Administration
China

Biography

David is a veteran talent management expert with a focus on youth empowerment and corporate innovation. Over the years, he worked in many different industries, ranging from property development, transport, to investment holdings. In 2017, David switched tracks and transited from the corporate world into the philanthropy sector. He joined the Chen Yidan Foundation and helped to set up the backbone for this new foundation. David is dedicated to youth development and has rich experience in grooming and mentoring youth entrepreneurship, innovation and leadership programs.

Ms Mabel Woo
YIDAN PRIZE FOUNDATION
Program Director
China

Biography

Miss Mabel Woo serves as program director of the Yidan Prize Foundation. In her current role, she oversees program development of the Yidan Prize, the largest educational award in the world. She has over a decade of experience in public and social sector with track record in organizing international programs and mega fund-raising events. In her previous capacity as project manager at The Dragon Foundation, a foundation dedicated to youth development and education, she was responsible for the foundation’s flagship programs Dragon 100 and Global Citizenship Program. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences and a master’s degree in Counselling from The University of Hong Kong.

Mr. Philip Liu
CHEN YIDAN FOUNDATION
CEO
China

Biography

Was an engineer, corporate strategist, and standing on the innovative end of traditional industry to seize opportunities from reform and technology advancement. Now on fully committed journey of passion for philanthropic foundation, focusing on education.

Dr. Zhijuan Charlotte MA
21st CENTURY EDUCATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE
Director of Innovation
China

Biography

Charlotte Ma is the Director of Innovation with 21st Century Education Research Institute base in Beijing, China. She leads the LIFE initiative that drives cross-sector collaborations in education. She authored and edited "Reinventing Education for Life: China's Education Innovation", one of the must read books for Chinese teachers. She also curated Leaners’ Innovation Forum on Education, a biennial event that attracts innovators national wide, as well as WISE-LIFE Forum on China education partnering with World Innovation Summit on Education. Charlotte Ma obtained her PhD degree in Peking University. She was the visiting scholar to US, Brussels, Japan and Taiwan where she researched on innovation policy and governance with the support of EU’s Erasmus Mundus scheme, Japan Foundation and China Scholarship Council. Previously she was the producer of China Central Television’s flagship English talk show where she produced over 200 shows with people with ideas, ideals and influence.

Ms. Yanjiao Wu
THE BUND EDUCATION
Chief editor
China
Domains of expertise
Media literacy

Biography

5 years’ communication training including studying aboard; Rich experience in reporting K-12 education; Relentless passion in education field.

Ms Yuanzheng Wu
HEFEI NORMAL UNIVERSITY
College Students' Instructor
China
Mr. Zhiwen Lu
JIANGSU CHANGMING EDUCATION FOUNDATION
President
China

Biography

Lu zhiwen, born in 1963, huai 'an, jiangsu province. Hubei province 11th NPC representatives, model workers in jiangsu province, the Chinese society of education management branch director, vice President of professional committee of school management system reform, the new honorary President of the institute of education, jiangsu cheong Ming, chairman of the education foundation, China's private education 10 person, Arlington school EMBA, the national well-known education experts, xiangyu education group, the total principal. The former vice President of huaian city school, the President of the education group.

Mr. Wei Wei
OPTIMUS FOUNDATION
Head of Asia Pacific
China

Biography

Wei Wei joined the UBS Optimus Foundation as its Director in Asia in 2013. Wei has more than ten years of experience in social development and philanthropy in China. As the China Director of Right To Play, Wei built the organization as a leading child development agency in China with programs in sixteen provinces for children in poverty and initiated one of the largest early childhood care and development program in the country. Wei built strong partnerships with more than twenty multinational and Chinese businesses, and provided capacity building services to many local NGOs. Wei co-founded five microfinance institutions in rural China and sits on the board of several local NGOs. Wei also worked as the Program Director of Plan International in China and Senior Program Officer in Pact.

Ms Yige Li
MINERVA SCHOOLS
Founding Student
China

Biography

Yige Li is a KOL of education innovation and youth development. She is a published author of two books and columnist for Southern Weekly and Jing Daily. After graduated from Beijing No.4 High School, she was selected as a founding student of Minerva Project. Her experiences include worldwide traveling and studying, working as a senior executive of a unicorn tech startup based in China and the U.S., and as a mentor in residence at the Makers’ Space in Tsinghua University. She hosted world-class scholars and entrepreneurs’ open dialogues in China, such as Masayuki Kurokawa and Yoval Harari.

Ms Phannel Lee
HUJIANG EDTECH
PR Manager
China

Biography

Strong leadership with professionalism and independent spirit to contribute its global vision and multilingual talents to develop expertise in the Internet and technology industries, E-commerce business, and ed-tech field.

Mr. Shuai Li
CHINA'S BIG 4 COMMERCIAL PORTAL SITES
Chief Content Officer
China

Biography

Content Chief Editor at Education Channel of QQ.com

Mr. Mao Li
TECSHARE
School Strategist Consultant
China
Domains of expertise
Pedagogies / Assessment / Curriculum
Teacher's Training and Management
Centres of interest
Education Technologies
school transformation and improvement

Biography

Li Mao, strategist consultant for school innovation based in Beijing, a longtime observer and reporter of educational change of China and the world, the translator of the Chinese version of the WISE publication “Innovation in Education: Lessons from Pioneers Around the World ”. He was one of the founding members of China Teacher Weekly, a newspaper agency under the Department of Education, the co-founder of TEACH FUTURE CHINA（为中国而教）, a teaching support volunteer organization for rural China, and the writer and translator of 5 books introducing western education to Chinese teachers, including the book about the story of US KIPP school network. He witnessed and planned the reporting of some of the most influential school innovation cases around China since the beginning of 21st century, and serves as strategic consultant for the change-maker schools in and out of Beijing

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Mr. Xiaohua Zhu
MEETPRO
Co-Founder and Product Director
China
Domains of expertise
Education Technologies
Technical Education and Vocational Training
Centres of interest
Innovation in education
The future of higher education

Biography

Xiaohua Zhu is the Co-founder, and Product director of Beijing Meetpro Information Technology Co., Ltd (Zaihang for short), with experience in product innovation, need analysis, product plan, and develop coordination. He received his B.S. in Electronic Engineering from Tsinghua University in 2001. After graduation, he began his career as an entrepreneur for more than fifteen years, he worked as founder or Co-founder in 5 Start-up companies. These companies are involved in mobile games, software development, e-commerce, group buying, online education and online knowledge service. He joined Meetpro in 2015, and worked as product director for the APP named Zaihang, which is the first skills and time sharing economy internet platform in China. Now more than 15000 industry experts provide personalized advice to the public on this platform. In 2016, he led the team develop a new APP called Fenda, it is a Q&A APP that create a free market for exchanging knowledge, while Fenda demands users pay to ask questions—but, if they ask really good questions, they can actually make a profit. It also allows them to cash in by providing answers. Fenda is the most famous internet product in 2016. Meetpro was China's best innovation company TOP50 2016. It received $25 million A round of investment in 2016, Tencent，Sequoia Capital and the Yuan Jing capital lead investor funds, the valuation was more than $100 million.

Ms Anna Molero Romen
TEACH FOR ALL
Global Head Multilaterals
China

Biography

Anna is the Global Head of Government & Multilateral Partnerships at Teach For All. She leads Teach For All’s efforts to develop and grow meaningful partnerships between Teach For All and public sector supporters, such as the US and UK governments, UNICEF, World Bank or the European Commission. She has over 13 years’ experience in economic promotion, entrepreneurship support, youth employment policies and institutional partnerships development. Prior to joining Teach For All, she founded a boutique consulting firm that advises intergovernmental bodies on fostering economic growth in European, MENA and LATAC countries, such as the European Investment Bank, the OECD or the Union for the Mediterranean. As the former CEO of the economic development branch of Barcelona’s municipal government- Barcelona Activa- she managed 350 employees and a 58M€ budget to promote business support, human capital development, foreign investment, and trade. Anna is a graduate of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, the London School of Economics, and Sciences-Po. She has also taken executive courses at Harvard Kennedy School of Government and IESE Business School and speaks five languages. Anna is a lecturer at the OECD course on Community and Development for Latin America communities, part of the Board and Judges committees of different initiatives such as Start Up Chile, Start Up Peru, the Asian based charity The Hub, the Basic Education Coalition, the Rotary Club of Kowloon North and an alum of the Marshal Memorial Fellowship and the Singularity University of the USA.

Mrs. Angel Mi Lin
X SCHOOL
Founder
China

Biography

Mrs. Angel Mi Lin has 20 years of experience in China’s Education and Training Industry. She is the Co-Founder of Global Citizen Training School in Jilin China, leading the school to be a reputable organization in local market but will national reputation. She is now the Co- Founder and CEO of X SCHOOL in Beijing China overseeing its strategic development and daily operations. Receiving education in China and seeing deficiencies in the Chinese education system, Angel began her journey of closing the gap when she was in university in 1995. She started by teaching some “bad students” at her small but cozy home for free in her own way. 12 months later, these students became top students in their classes. Encouraged by this, she began to help more “bad students" and students from economically inferior families whom are conventionally regarded “hopeless” in the China context. By 1997, she already had 120 students, and more students were coming to her. Then her first training centre was set up on the 24th December 1997, and now, the Jilin Global Citizens Training School has grown to be the most popular organization in northern China with over 10,000 students, most of whom are the “bad students” and “poor students”. When most of the Chinese training organizations are focused on test skill training for quick money, Angel saw the serious negative impact this has brought to the Chinese children and youth, including ignorance of life skills and social skills, high academic pressure, isolation from main streams, mental and psychological disorder, dropouts from schools, etc., she established the X SCHOOL in Beijing in 2015, wishing to help Chinese students to involve in international education, survive in international environment and thrive in globalization era. Although what the future world looks like is not yet clear, X SCHOOL strives to close the gap with quality education programs developed over the years and educate Chinese children and youth in ways that better prepare them for the VUCA world so that it can nurture the first generation of global citizens and global leaders who can think globally and act locally. Over 50 parents have joined together as investors to help with the growth of X SCHOOL, and more parents are joining every single day. Angel Mi Lin would very much like to give a short talk, sharing her visions and insights on how a non-government organization can help to supplement the national education system while preparing students for this VUCA world in a very practical way. We would appreciate it greatly if you could please help to make this happen so that her talk can inspire millions more around the globe.

Ms Wenjing Xu
JMDEDU.COM
Reporter
China

Biography

Reporter of Jmdedu,focus on education innovation.

Xiaowei Liu
CHENGDU PIONEER EDUCATION SCHOOL
Founder & President
China

Biography

After teaching English for Chinese students and Chinese Language and Culture for American students for 9 years at Sichuan University in Chengdu, China, Xiaowei went to USA and received his Master degree in education from University of Virginia in 1994. He then worked as consultant for international education in Shanghai, Beijing and Chengdu. He helped to launch the first Project Approach Program in China with Dr. Sylvia Chard in 1998 and later founded Pioneer Education School (PES), a small-size innovative school for teenagers to develop good character, critical thinking, life-long learning, communication and collaboration. In PES, students decide what to learn and how to learn and PES is known as China's Summerhill School.

Ms Yige Li
MINERVA SCHOOLS
Founding Student
China

Biography

biography

Dr. Lu Bo is the Co-Founder & Board Director of World Future Foundation Ltd. (WFF), Singapore. He is devoted to resolve social and environmental problems by integrating the ideals of philanthropy, capability of wealth, and technological innovations. He was fully involved in the establishment of WFF, and since September 1st, 2008, has been in charge of handling the Foundation's daily operations. He also serves as Advisory Board Member of the Asia Centre for Social Entrepreneurship and Philanthropy at the National University of Singapore, Advisory Board Member of the Center for Leadership and Management at Rutgers University (The U. S.), World Cities Summit Young Leaders Laureate and Pre-Jury for WISE Awards. Previously, he was involved in international trade between 1992 and 1996. From 1997 to 2008, he worked with several international non-profit organizations including the Hong Kong Trade Development Council, Boao Forum for Asia, and the US-China Business Council. Over the years, he has accumulated extensive experience in the non-profit sector as well as international affairs. He was born in Beijing in 1970 and speaks Chinese Mandarin, English and Arabic. He earned a Ph.D. in Non-Profit Management at Beijing Normal University, China. He also served as a visiting scholar to Indiana University, the U.S., and a senior visiting fellow at National University of Singapore. Dr. Lu is active in the international non-profit community as a board member, consultant, speaker and author on topics related to philanthropic development, corporate social responsibility, fund raising strategy, internationalization strategy and doing good. E-mail: wff.lubo@hotmail.com

Ms Yan Guowei
CENTRAL CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC
Artist
China

Biography

A teacher at the Chinese Music Department of Central Conservatory of Music; board member of the Huqin (fiddle) Professional Committee at the Chinese National Orchestra Society; Listed on the Top Ten Youth Erhu Players by the Central Television (CCTV). She studied nine years with Yu Hongmei, a famous erhu master and professor at the Chinese Music Department of the Central Conservatory of Music, achieved a Master degree in 2015. She has been awarded the "Chinese Music Golden Bell", China's Ministry of Culture "Wenhua" Award, "Taipei National Instrumental Music Competition", "CCTV National Instrumental Music Television Contest Gold Prize", etc. She is ranked amongst the top erhu players active today.

Ms Sijie Ni
CHINA SCIENCE DAILY
Journalist
China

Biography

I have worked for China Science Daily since 2013, focusing on the report of physics, science and technology education.

Mr. Chenhui Qiu
CHINA YOUTH DAILY
Reporter
China
Ms. Minqing Wang
SEED FOR SOCIAL INNOVATION
Business Development Manager
China
Domains of expertise
Higher Education
Pedagogies / Assessment / Curriculum
Social Entrepreneurship
Centres of interest
Entrepreneurship education
Sustainable development goals (SDGs)

Biography

Minqing Wang is responsible for the business development, branding and fundraising of SEED for Social Innovation, a non-profit organization seeking to educate, inspire and build a community of young Chinese social entrepreneurs. She is also doing full-time academic and personal development counselling at NYU Shanghai to help students develop meaningful educational plans compatible with their life goals. Minqing earned her master’s degree in education from Harvard University, with focuses on linguistics, developmental psychology and international education.

Ms. Xueshan Zhang
SEED FOR SOCIAL INNOVATION
Secretary-General
China

Biography

Xueshan Zhang is the Secretary-General of SEED for Social Innovation, a non-profit organization seeking to educate, inspire and build a community of young Chinese social entrepreneurs. Xueshan graduates from Harvard University with a M.S. in big data. She loves empowering people and is actively exploring the role that data can play in this mission.

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Chen Daogu, also known as Chen Changhe, male, born on January 8, 1975, worked as a middle school teacher, vice principal and middle level cadre in the county and municipal education bureau. Associate researcher, master of education. Now is the vice director of Beijing Hua Yue Technology Research Institute and the CEO of Jun you education management consulting co. LTD. Research education policy and school management, who was responsible for developing policy documents of the non-government-fund education, rural education, education planning in Wenzhou City, Lishui City, Cangnan County, Zhejiang province. As the main draftsman of private education implement national comprehensive reform pilot "1 + 14" file In Wenzhou, participated in national non-governmental education promotion law amendment and implementation regulations, and the research on separation reform of manage-transact-evaluate for the ministry of education Amateur engaged in education, culture, public welfare activities, initiated and area to promote the new education experiment, such as "send you a poem in the spring" project, launched six urban cultural library projects in Zhejiang and Jiangsu province, and held more than 200 cultural salons in past 2 years.

Mr. Raza Kizilbash
CEDAR COLLEGE
Director
China

Biography

Raza has an MBA from the International University of Japan and a BSc from Lahore University of Management Sciences. He currently lives in Hong Kong and is a Board Member with Cedar College (Pakistan).

Mr. Dian Gu
NEW ELITE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY
CEO
China

Biography

Career Development Counsellor, bestselling author，President of New Elite,

Ms Yuezhi Tang
CHINA'S BIG 4 COMMERCIAL PORTAL SITES
Senior Journalist
China

Mr. Siyuan Wang
CNR-CHINA BUSINESS RADIO
Senior Journalist
China

Ms Yu Wang
China Economic Times
Senior Editor
China
Ms Peng Zhang
WENHUI DAILY NEWSPAPER
JOURNALIST
China
s Rui Zhang
CHINA BUSINESS NETWORK
Journalist
China

Biography

Work in the CBNweekly, one of the best business magazine of China. Experienced in reporting technology and Internet.

Ms Mai Yin
NONE
Assistant of Chief Editor
China

Biography

journalist of Beijing youth daily 2000-now

Biography

Wang Yu

Mr. Zhubao Wu
XIAO EDUCATION GROUP
CEO
China

Ms Xian Zhou
AHA SCHOOL OF SOCIAL INNOVATION
Co-Founder
China

Biography

CEO of Xiao Education Group, China.

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