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Past Speakers
Aaron Friedland
Founder & CEO at Simbi
Adrienne Gear
Teacher/Author/Speaker - Founder Reading Power Gear, ltd. - Simbi Literacy Expert
Alex Gillis
Chief Revenue Officer and Head of Educator Success at Simbi
Andrew Ashe
Co-founder and CEO onebillion
Andrew Jack
Global Education Editor, Financial Times
Andrew Kay
Founder and CEO - World Literacy Foundation
Azhar Aslam
Plastic Surgeon by profession
Barbara Schindelhauer
Co-author and trainer Let’s visit Numberland
BRONWYN JOYCE
Lecturer at Federation University, Gippsland.
Caitlin Baron
CEO at the Luminos Fund
Carla Aerts
Director - Tmrw Institute
Daan Beeke
Dutch Reading Foundation and EURead
David Kirkpatrick
Co-founder of MIT Center for Future Storytelling, President of Paramount Pictures, Production Chief of Walt Disney Studios, optimist, author and teacher.
Debra E.S.Bogle
Author, Principal, Global Innovator, Adjunct Professor/Action Researcher - Academy of the Arts
Denine Torr
Director Community Initiatives, Dollar General
Dr Donald Green
Chair World Literacy Foundation
Dr. Susann Dattenberg-Doyle
Founder, Right for Education
Emem Opashi
Lead consultant of the School Resource Center (SRC)
Emma Bell
Executive Director of Innovations for Learning UK
Emma Pauncefort
Founder of Dilectae
Greig Metzger
Executive Director Little Free Library
Hadiza Gidado
Deputy Director Training - : Impact(Ed) International (Formerly Discovery Learning Alliance)
Horacio Álvarez
Senior Education Specialist at the Interamerican Development Bank (IDB)
Janette Ballard
Lead Project Manager, BBC
Jared Lee
Principal and co-Founder, The Education Outcomes Fund
Jeannie van der Linde
Associate professor - University of Pretoria
Jemma Pym
Development Manager of the World Literacy Foundation
Jonathan Douglas
CEO National Literacy Trust
Kimberly A. Smith
Technical Advisor & Director Supplementary Resource Development for the Pakistan Reading Project - International Rescue Committee
Ludger Woessmann
Professor of Economics, University of Munich / Director, ifo Centre for the Economics of Education
Malak Abdel-Ghaffar
Junior Student Majoring in Literature and Creative Writing
Maria del Pilar Rojas Quimbay
Program Manager Sun Books - World Literacy Foundation
Martyn Farrows
COO, SoapBox Labs
Mary McKenna
Founder and Director of NEST-USA
Maurice de Greef
UNESCO Chair on Adult Education, Vrije University Brussel
Minister Li Andersson
Minister of Education, Finland
Miyako Ikeda
Senior Analyst, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Directorate for Education and Skills (OECD)
Monica Burns
Founder of ClassTechTips.com
Rana Dajani
Associate Professor at Hashemite University
Rania El-Kelani
Co-Founder - Madarek-books.com
Renata Eccles
Lecturer and speech-language therapist - University of Pretoria: Department of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology
Ruth Sorby
Development Manager - Worldreader
Safiqul Islam
Director, BRAC Education Programme (BEP)
Samantha Sida
Director & Co-Founder at Limited Space
Sameera Ahmed
Assistant Professor in the Media and Creative Industries Department at the UAEU.
Sharon Kehl Califano
Director, General Studies Strategy - Western Governors University, General Education
Sibusiso Sibisi
Student at the University of South Africa
Sophie Edwards
Journalist
Stacey Fru
Child Author
Stephen Tugwell
Principal, Sacred Heart School
Steve Wind-Mozley
Chief Marketing Officer - Vizrt
Sue Costello
Manager, 26TEN Strategy
Susan M. Holloway
Associate Professor - Faculty of Education, University of Windsor
Tiina Neuvonen
Thematic Lead in Education, United Nations Technology Innovation Lab (UNTIL)
Abigail Gosling
Senior Lecturer - School of Education and English Language, University of Bedfordshire
Alfred Chidembo
CEO - Aussie Books For Zim
Alinery Lianhlawng
Founder - ROCHUN: Pay it Forward
Alisha Jean-Denis
PhD Candidate - UMASS Amherst
Amelia Hewitt
Associate Professor Early Childhood Education - University of Houston
Amina Humayun Khan
Literacy Specialist - International School of Islamabad (ISOI)
Ana Sanches de Arêde
Publisher for the Story Makers Press
Andy Salmon
Founder Sir Linkalot’s
Angela Caroline Abraham
CEO - Descriptionari
Ann Attridge
CEO - Klik2learn
Anna Gill
Founder & CEO - Kinephonics® Pty Limited
Aprile Denise
Founder & Literacy Advisor - Yayasan Literasi Anak Indonesia
Armene Modi
Founder - Ashta No Kai
Basirat Razaq-Shuaib
Founder - The Winford Centre for Children and Women
Caitlin Lowery
Educator at Lagos Elementary in Manor Independent School District in Manor, Texas
Cassandra O’Sullivan Sachar
Assistant Professor of Writing - Bloomsburg University
Catherine Gilliland
Senior Lecturer Language and Literacy - St Mary's University College
Charles Muwangala
World Literacy Foundation - Sunbooks Uganda
Chioma Momah
Initiator/Founder - Let's Encourage A Reading Nation (LEARN)
Christina Sturm
Project Coordinator - Bücherpiraten e.V.
Cindy O. Charles
Founder and CEO - Kupanda Sisters, Inc
Conor OBEIRNE
CEO/Director - Happy Readers Zimbabwe
Deborah Grover
Educational Consultant and Director - Beagle Innovations Limited
Diana Garlough
Chair of Licensure and Endorsements/Associate Professor - University of Findlay, College of Education
Dorka Horvath
CEO and Co-Founder - Mra-BOOKR Kids Kft.
Dorothee Gaile
Scientific advisor of the PeP-Project - PeP-Project at Ernst-Reuter-Schule 1
Farzana Ahmad
Doctoral Candidate - University of Waikato
Fraser Hutchinson
Head of Publisher Partnerships - The Reading Agency
Gerhard Friedrich
Author of Let’s visit Numberland
Hanchao Hou
PhD Student - Centre for Positive Psychology, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, The University of Melbourne
Ian Cheffy
Literacy and Education Senior Consultant - SIL International
Isang Awah
Project Manager - University of Oxford; Department of Social Policy and Intervention
J. David Magee
Founder - OSH literacy
Jacob Bronstein
Director of Operations and WordScientists.org at NEST USA
Joy Allcock
Literacy Consultant and Director - Code-Education Ltd
Karen Vogelsang
Executive Director - ARISE2Read
Kathleen Seeman, MRD
Reading Specialist -The College School
Kevin Wheeler
Chief Executive Officer - Kaizen’s Company
Kim Pinkerton
Literacy Educator - Texas A&M University-Commerce
Kimberly A. Smith
Technical Advisor & Director Supplementary Resource Development for the Pakistan Reading Project - International Rescue Committee
Kirk R. Person
Senior Education Consultant - SIL International
Lanxi Huang
PhD Candidate - Centre for Positive Psychology, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne
Lily Msae Nyariki
Focal Point - ADEA Books and Learning Materials Section
Luminita Hartle
Instructional Assistant Professor -Illinois State University
Lynn A. Smolen
Margaret Chen
Founder - Reading in Colour
Mary Ressler
English Language Arts teacher in the United States - Literacy Speedway/XPRIZE-
Maysoon Masoud
Research & Development Program Manager. - Queen Rania Foundation
Melinda Thompson
Founder/President - Budding Reader
Melissa Cheese
Assistant Professor of Reading - Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania
Mohammad Asad
Middle East Youth Ambassador / ICT Officer
Nafez Dakkak
CEO - Queen Rania Foundation
Pamela Gray
Literacy Coach - Manor ISD/Lagos ES
Patricia Gouthro
Professor in the Graduate Studies of Lifelong Learning program in the Faculty of Education at Mount Saint Vincent University
Paula MacKinnon
Director for Education, Gender Equality and Social Inclusion - Impact(Ed) International
Paula Rico
Program Manager DINGO - World Literacy Foundation
Pauline McLeod
Author - HerbAnn Publications.
Penny Kittle
President, Book Love Foundation - Plymouth State University
Philippa Bodien
BSc in Education and Psychology.
Prue Anderson
Principal Research Fellow - Australian Council for Educational Research
Rehan Allahwala
Founder - Institute Of Peace
Robert F Achgill
Mother Tongue literacy researcher - His Hands Reader
Ronke Kokoruwe
Director - iVerbalize Limited
Saman Rashid
Student City of Vienna
Samantha-Kaye Johnston
Research Officer and Teaching Associate - The University of Oxford & Monash University
Sara Pan Algarra
President of ElevatED, NYUAD's Student Group on Education
Sarah Mirza
Assessment Specialist - Mera SABAQ Learning Systems Private Limited
Sarah Warring
Adjunct Professor of English - Mohawk Valley Community College
Shahida Maheen
Director Supplementary Resource Development - Pakistan Reading Project
Shubhrata Das
Program Manager - Wipro Foundation
Stephen Faul
President & CEO - Frontier College
Susan M. Holloway
Associate Professor - Faculty of Education, University of Windsor
Susan Rook
Lecturer in Primary English at Leeds Beckett University
Suzanne Bogaerds-Hazenberg
PhD Student - Utrecht Institute of Linguistics, Utrecht University
Valerie L. Williams-Sanchez
Doctoral Student - St. John's University, Department of Education, Queens, New York, USA
Wei Zhang
Associate Professor of Linguistics; TESOL - The Department of English The University of Akron
Wendy Yorke
Literary Agent, Author Coach, Editor - WRITE. EDIT. PUBLISH
Yue-Yi Hwa
Research Fellow - Research on Improving Systems of Education (RISE)
Zoltan Pompor
Educational Developer - The Curriculum and Learning Material Developing Group of the Reformed Church in Hungary