Ms. Lim is the founder of School of Concepts in Singapore. She started tutoring from the young age of 16, fresh out of Raffles Girls' School. Few knew that she had learning needs. A Sunday school teacher at her church noticed her learning disability and helped her learn phonics. She had to devise her own learning strategies and through perseverance, she managed to score well for her Primary School Leaving Examination (PSLE). Those strategies complemented by her teaching experience, Lim created the 'scaffolding' technique used widely in her curriculum.

Aleandre is currently the Regional Program Manager for Microsoft Philanthropies, covering 18 markets in Asia. She has been with Microsoft for the past 3 years managing the Digital Skills program, a global initiative to increase access for all youth to learn computer science, empowering them to achieve more for themselves, their families, and their communities.

Ms. Izawa currently leads and manages the Project Administration Unit of the Social Sector Division of ADB’s Central and West Asia Department. With over 20 years of extensive experience in the education sector in working with JICA and eventually ADB, she was able to help expand operations for education, health care and social protection across Viet Nam, Cambodia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyz Republic, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Philippines, Thailand, People’s Republic of China, Mongolia, Timor-Leste, Sri Lanka, Belize, Mauritania, Segal, Genie, El Salvador, Bolivia, and Japan.

Per Börjegren is a Principal Education Specialist in ADB’s Human and Social Development Sector Office, managing projects and technical assistance across all levels of education.

Prior to joining ADB, he worked in South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East on behalf of the German government. Per is supporting regional bodies as well as national and provincial governments to expand and improve the quality of their education systems. Per holds a master’s degree in Educational Leadership and Management from the University of Nottingham, United Kingdom. 

Mr. Fukuhara is the CEO and Founder of Institution for a Global Society. Before IGS, Fukuhara was with MUFG and then with Barclays Global Investors (now BlackRock), where he became the youngest managing director. He is also Adjunct Professor at Hitotsubashi University and Project Professor at Keio University in Japan.

Mr. Lee is a Research Fellow at the Korea Employment Information Service, 2006 Previously, he was Director for International Cooperation Team and for Employment Service Evaluation Center, among others. He obtained his PhD in Business Administration from Korea University of Technology and Education in 2013. His thesis was on the Impact of Servant Leadership and HRM Control on the Burnout and Engagement of Emotional Workers: The Case of Career Counselors.

Ms. Chivapruk, a pediatric nurse turned educator, is the current Roong Aroon School Academic Director. She has a Master’s Degree in Early Childhood Education as well as a Waldorf Education teacher training qualification. Her educator’s career path started as a Preschool Coordinator for the Indo-Chinese Refugee Children, the Consortium (USA), Thailand. She worked as the Early Childhood Co-coordinator with Save the Children Foundation to empower a community in Thailand. In 1996, as her passion in holistic education and belief in lifelong learning grew stronger, she joined Roong Aroon School.

Ms. Idris is an educator, consultant, and distinguished mathematics educator. She holds PhD from the Ohio State University, USA has been a Fulbright Research Fellow. She has published in a variety of national and international publications, and has presented papers both nationally and internationally. She has also conducted several researches with UNESCO, the British Council, Australian and Japanese institutions (Melbourne, Sydney, Sumitomo).

Mr. Hsieh is Research Professor of Entrepreneurship and Founding Executive Director of the Center for Global Entrepreneurship at SUNY Korea since 2017. In the 12 years before that, he led the design and coordination of the entrepreneurship curriculum at the University of Missouri (USA), the University of Amsterdam (Europe), and Yonsei University (Korea). In 2017, Mr.

Ma. Mercedes T. Rodrigo is Executive Director of Areté and a Professor at the Department of Information Systems and Computer Science. She is also the head of the Ateneo Laboratory for the Learning Sciences (ALLS), a member of the TPD@Scale Coalition. Her fields of specialization are technology in education and educational data mining. Most recently, she and her team have developed mobile games for literacy and augmented reality applications for museums.