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Damian Allen is Doncaster Council’s Chief Executive. Prior to this, he held the Council’s statutory Chief Officer role for Children (DCS) and Adults (DASS).
He is a qualified teacher and has taught in middle and secondary schools, Further Education and Higher Education.
He was a senior manager in Education for six years and a Governor in every phase of Education before moving into Local Authorities, initially in school improvement, where he was Ofsted trained and then worked in wider children’s services.
He has advised the UK and other governments on education and children’s services matters, as well as a member of a number of Commissions of Inquiry, Advisory Boards and Ministerial Advisory Groups.
Mònica Nadal Anmella is head of research at the Jaume Bofill Foundation, a think tank with a mission to increase equity in education by designing and promoting initiatives able to catalyse change. She was firstly Head of Diversity and Immigration and later the Head of Prospective. She develops and oversees projects (research, policy briefs, seminars, conferences) to transform education in Catalonia.
Gregg Behr, executive director of The Grable Foundation, is a father and children’s advocate whose work is inspired by the legacy of his hero, Fred Rogers. Since 2007, he has helped lead Remake Learning—a network of educators, scientists, artists, and makers—to international renown. Formed in Rogers' real-life neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Remake Learning has attracted interest from Forbes to the World Economic Forum for its efforts to ignite children's curiosity, encourage creativity, and foster justice and belonging in schools, libraries, museums, and more. He's an advisor to the Brookings Institution and has been cited by President Obama and the Disruptor Foundation as an innovator and thought leader. He is the co-author of When You Wonder, You’re Learning (2021).
Kirsten Dunlop's career spans academia, consulting,banking, insurance, strategy, design, innovation and leadership.
Kirsten joined EIT Climate-KIC in February 2017 from an Australian financial services conglomerate,
Suncorp, a long-standing partner of Climate-KIC and a member of global climate risk information platform, OASIS. She is committed to shaping and placing innovation to catalyse profound systemic change, and is honoured to work with Climate-KIC’s world-class network of partners to support climate innovation across Europe and beyond.
Prior to roles in Second Road, KPMG and Suncorp in Australia, Kirsten worked in the UK and Italy for 15 years. In Italy, she led the Generali Group Innovation Academy for Assicurazioni Generali, pioneering proprietary thinking in the areas of Strategic Risk management, strategic innovation, strategic leadership development and cultural change.
Michael Fullan (OC) is the former Dean of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, and Professor Emeritus of the University of Toronto. He is co-leader of the New Pedagogies for Deep Learning global initiative (www.npdl.global). Recognized as a worldwide authority on educational reform, he advises policymakers, local leaders, and school communities in helping to achieve the moral purpose of all children’s learning. He served as Premier Dalton’s Special Policy Adviser in Ontario from 2003-2013. Fullan received the Order of Canada (OC) in December 2012. He holds five honorary doctorates from universities around the world.
Valerie Hannon is a global thought leader, inspiring systems to re-think what ‘success’ will mean in the C 21 st , and the implications for education. The co-founder of both Innovation Unit and of the Global Education Leaders Partnership, Valerie is a radical voice for change, whilst grounded in a deep understanding of how education systems currently work. Formerly a secondary teacher, researcher and Director of Education for Derbyshire County Council; then an adviser in the UK Department for Education (DfE) during the Blair years, she now works independently to support change programs across the world.
Valerie’s work for The Australian Learning Lecture on The Future School will appear as a book later in 2021.
Ulla Ilisson is the head of the Education and Youth Authority Estonia. Ulla has a master's degree from Tallinn University of Technology, and she considers lifelong learning to be very relevant. She is currently complementing her studies in the university of IESE (at the Management Program).
She has been a leader in the development of several large as well as international organizations, including Swedbank, Kalev and several insurance companies. Ulla also has experience in starting and boosting an Estonian start-up company.
As the General Director of the Education and Youth Authority she takes on the challenge to contribute to taking the Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance to the next level.
Professor Bill Lucas is Director of the Centre for Real-World Learning at the University of Winchester.
Bill is a founding member of the Rethinking Assessment movement and his most recent report is Rethinking assessment in education: The case for change. Bill’s research focuses on understanding dispositions for learning which help people success and flourish in life.
Bill is co-chair of the strategic advisory group of the new PISA 2021 (2022) and chair of Eton’s research and innovation centre. Bill has authored more than eighty books and many research reports including recently co-authoring the Durham Commission on Creativity and Education.
Professor Pavel Luksha is a founder and a director of Global Education Futures initiative, aimed at catalyzing the transformation of educational ecosystems at a global scale, and a co-founder of Global Change Leaders movement of educational & social innovators. He is also a Professor of Practice at Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO, where works primarily on the transformation of the higher & professional education sector, and a Professor at ITBA (Technological University of Buenos Aires). Pavel also works closely with Russian Agency of Strategic Initiatives, one of the primary national vehicles of driving change in professional education development and new technological sectors. He is the coauthor of Rapid Foresight methodology, widely used in sectoral and regional planning, and a primary author of Skills Technology Foresight methodology developed in partnership with International Labor Organization.
Anthony Mackay AM is President & CEO of the Washington DC based National Center on Education and the Economy.
Anthony is moderator of the annual International Summit on the Teaching Profession, the Annual Global Education Industry Summit.
Anthony is Co-Chair of Learning Creates Australia, Deputy Chancellor Swinburne University, and Senior Fellow, Graduate School of Education, The University of Melbourne.
Anthony is immediate past Chair of ACER, and immediate past Deputy Chair of New Zealand's Education Council. He was Inaugural Chair of AITSL and the Inaugural Deputy Chair of the ACARA.
Anthony is an expert consultant to OECD, Senior Fellow IBE UNESCO, and Council Member of Asia Society’s Center for Global Education.
Amelia Peterson is part of the founding faculty of the London Interdisciplinary School (LIS), a new university opening in September 2021 with a focus on tackling complex problems. She is currently a Fellow in Social Policy at the London School of Economics, and is writing up research on qualifications in upper secondary education. She holds a PhD in Education from Harvard University and is a co-author of "Thrive: The Purpose of Schools in a Changing World" (2021, Cambridge University Press).
Justin Reich is an assistant professor of digital media in the Comparative Media Studies/Writing department at MIT and the director of the Teaching Systems Lab. He is the author of Failure to Disrupt: Why Technology Alone Can’t Transform Education, and the host of the TeachLab Podcast. He earned his doctorate from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and was the Richard L. Menschel HarvardX Research Fellow. He is a past Fellow at the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society. His writings have been published in Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Washington Post, The Atlantic, and other scholarly journals and public venues. He started his career as a high school history teacher, and coach of wrestling and outdoor adventure activities.
Michael Stevenson is Senior Advisor, Education and Skills at the Organization for Economic Development and Co-operation in Paris. His responsibilities include innovation, strategy and support for governments. He is leading the development of : (1) the long-term roadmap for the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) and (2) vision, strategy and policy for education in the age of AI (High Performing Systems for Tomorrow).
From 2007-2013 Michael was Vice President, Global Education at Cisco Systems. During this time he founded the Global Education Leaders Program, which he now co-chairs.
Michael began his career at the BBC, initially in television current affairs, later as BBC Secretary and Director of Education. He went on to lead strategy, communications and technology at the UK Department for Education in London.
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