Dr. Asma Akther is a household name when it comes to healthcare for underprivileged women in Bangladesh. In a country where superstition and quackery are rampant in women’s healthcare despite record progress, Dr Asma is fighting to save lives of expectant mothers and newborns in slums and villages.
Bidyanondo Foundation
Ayan Said is a professional educator, youth ambassador and the director of ‘Voicing Voices’. With a focus to address the impact of intersectionality on achieving the sustainable development goals in 2030, Ayan seeks to develop social change through education and finding solutions to provide access to rights.
Director, Voicing Voices
Dima Karout is a visual artist, curator and educator based in London, UK. She is dedicated to creating spaces where art, culture and education meet and interact. Her work advocates for cultural diversity and inclusion; explores the dynamic between artist, artwork and spectator; and investigates how the participatory aspects of art can positively influence research and learning and advance the societies we live in.
Visual Artist, Curator & Educator, London
Emily Downes has been a digital entrepreneur for almost 3 years and now focuses on coaching other female entrepreneurs and empowering them with mindset and marketing strategies to grow and scale their online business.
Digital Entrepreneur
Gesu Antonio Baez is the Executive Director and Chief Diplomatic Officer of Pax Tecum Global Consultancy, a firm focused on diplomacy in international development, biding social enterprises and governments for greater change.
Executive Director and Chief Diplomatic Officer of Pax Tecum Global Consultancy
Hebah Fisher is a serial entrepreneur and journalist. She’s the CEO and cofounder of Kerning Cultures, the award-winning Dubai-based network behind Arabic and English podcasts that regularly top the podcast charts across the Middle East.
CEO & Co-founder of Kerning Cultures
A multilingual global resident. Graduated in Genetics from Queen Mary and Westfield, University of London and most recently from Singularity University. His professional work involves helping innovation technologies grow their business globally in the life sciences market.
A Multilingual Global Resident, Idris Foundation
Israt Jahan Alo is a Mechanical Engineering (BSc) student from University of New Brunswick, Canada. Being a very shy person, moving away from the family at a young age proved to be quite challenging given previous history of being Bullied throughout school life, Clinical Depression and Social Anxiety.
Student, University of New Brunswick, Canada
A passionate MUN Leader with 5 years of vivid experience, Jaideep Singh is currently a Chemical Engineering student at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. On the MUN front, he is currently the Secretary General for MUN@Home.
Jaideep Singh
Student, Nayang Technological University, Singapore
Javier Stevens is a native New Yorker who has spent the past decade working to ensure rigor and equitable learning across varying curricula in secondary environments. Following a three year tenure as an English teacher for Qatar Leadership Academy, Javier relocated from Doha, Qatar, to Songdo, South Korea where he serves as a Learning Specialist for Chadwick International.
Learning Specialist, Chadwick International
Mr. Saucedo is an operations manager turned environmentalist. For the past 2 years he has been leading the Doha Environmental Actions Project DEAP. Under Mr. Saucedo’s leadership DEAP has become a very active organization in our community, working very hard to raise environmental awareness, as well as to promote the incredible natural and heritage sites that Qatar has to offer.
Jose Saucedo
Leader of Doha Environmental Actions Project (DEAP)
Jack Rossbach is an Assistant Professor at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service in Qatar. Jack’s teaching includes courses on Poverty, Growth, & Inequality and Quantitative Trade Models, and his teaching focuses on blending economic theory with modern empirical methods and a heavy focus on working with data.
Jack Rossbach
Assistant Professor, Georgetown University in Qatar
Kimberly Hogg is an expatriate Canadian who has lived abroad since 2002 and has taught all ages from kindergarten through adult learners. She recently made the transition from post-secondary to middle and high school teaching, which she thoroughly enjoys. She presently serves the community at Chadwick International in Songdo, South Korea.
Chadwick International
Kellen is a full-time staff member at Thirst Project, the world’s largest YOUTH water organization. He graduated from Arizona State University with a degree in Global Studies and a focus on International Development. For his last semester at university, Kellen interned with Thirst Project where he travelled across the United States as a representative for the organization.
Thirst Project
Iconic youth leader, global influencer, environmentalist, champion of children’s rights, TEDx speaker, author, musician, peace and sustainability campaigner and a passionate advocate of women’s rights, 20-year old Kehkashan Basu is a trail blazer who has been challenging the status quo and breaking social strictures and taboos which impede the progress and rights of future generations.
Founder President, Green Hope Foundation
Margaret supports the mandate of Dr. Ahmed Al-Meraikhi the Special Advisor to the UN Secretary-General. Margaret previously served as the Adviser to Dr. Ahmed Al Meraikhi in his role as the UN Secretary-General’s Humanitarian Envoy from 2016-2019. Prior to that she was Legal Counsel for Qatar University.
Margaret Osborne
Supporter of Mandate of Dr.Ahmed Al-Meraikhi the Special Advisor to the UN Secretary-General
Mohand Nour, a specialist in the field of early-stage startups, has 7 years+ experience of helping entrepreneurs and early-stage founders go from idea to scale. This involves years of helping entrepreneurs connect with governments, institutions, universities and corporates, helping to innovate different structures within business and drive funding to those with the ideas that change society for the better.
Founding Team, F6S
Support and absence of affordable daycare is the key reason for many to lose jobs. To secure continuation of economic freedom for these helpless post-natal women, Rakhima is a force establishing female-friendly garments were the distressed women are getting a chance to turn around again. Besides this, she has also led initiatives to manufacture and distribute affordable sanitary pads to help many young girls having a safer and healthier period.
Bidyanondo Foundation
Shipra Das grew up in a society where women’s education wasn’t a norm. She dedicated her career for women’s empowerment and education with the determination to bring a day where no girl is deprived of their right to education. With Bidyanondo Foundation, she established training centers in the world’s largest refugee camp empowering many women for years.
Bidyanondo Foundation
Dr. Valery Senichev is an educator and consultant with a focus on future skills and future of jobs. He is a co-founder of Educamp.cz, a platform focused on training and consultancy in professional development, using new technologies in different aspects of life. He also co-founded Jobs 2030, a consultancy company focused on getting people and companies ready for the changes of work which come hand–in hand with new technologies, including Virtual reality.
Co-Founder, Educamp.cz