Tamar Makharashvili has been appointed as the First Deputy Minister of Education and Science of Georgia. The First Deputy Minister will oversee the Department of Preschool Education and General Education, as well as the National Center for Teacher Professional Development and the Resource Officer Service.

Chairman of the Hui Mei He Zheng education company, president of the Jinan Infant Daycare Association, participate in the formulation of China's childcare policy and submit amendments. Ten years’ experience of in infant career planning and talent training.

Kelly Sims Gallagher is Dean, ad interim and Professor of Energy and Environmental Policy at The Fletcher School, Tufts University. She directs the Climate Policy Lab and the Center for International Environment and Resource Policy at Fletcher. She served in the second term of Obama Administration as a Senior Policy Advisor in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and as Senior China Advisor in the Special Envoy for Climate Change office at the U.S. State Department.

Ms Lamei graduated from South West University in 2015 and got a Doctor’s degree in Educational Management, and graduated from University of Sheffield in 2017 and got a Masters’ degree in Educational Policies and Practice. Currently she is engaged in research on education internationalization, education policies, and education management, published more than twenty academic papers.

Professor Ir. Taufan Marhaendrajana is the head of Science Techno Park of the Institute of Technology Bandung (ITB) and has held various progressive leadership positions in ITB over the years. He obtained his PhD degree from Texas A&M University majoring in the oil and gas field discipline and has in the recent year pivoted to renewable energies aligned with decarbonization initiatives and research carried out by the university. He has more than 8 intellectual property rights filed and has more than 38 publications on his research. 

Ms. Lay is deputy director general of DGTVET, Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training in Cambodia. Ms. Lay oversees the TVET development policy and strategy and guides to operationalize the TVET policies. Ms. Lay has been a key government counterpart staff of the ADB-financed Skills for Competitiveness project since 2019. She holds a Master of Education in TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) from the Institute of Foreign Languages (IFL), Cambodia; and an M.A. in Global TVET Management from KOREATECH, Republic of Korea.

Mr. Kaltau is providing leadership and management in setting strategic direction and planning the implementation of activities within the Tertiary Education Directorate, including scholarship, skills development, higher education, and teacher education development.  He has served the Vanuatu education system since 1998.  

Mr. Mendiola has served the education system in his country since 2003 in roles such as Assistant Secretary for the division of Formal and Non-formal Education, Assistant Secretary for the department of Quality and Effectiveness, and administrator for Post Secondary Education. Mr. Mendiola started his work with the Government as a School Health Program coordinator and has been instrumental in driving reforms for improved quality in basic education.

Mr. Jitoko is heading the PacREF Facilitation Unit (PFU), hosted at the University of the South Pacific (USP), Suva, Fiji. The PacREF program is a regional education policy framework under the overall oversight of Ministers of Education from the Forum Island Countries in the Pacific. Before moving to the USP, Mr. Jitoko was Social Policy Adviser at the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat where he coordinated the development of the PacREF policy document in collaboration with the 15 participating countries together with regional and international agencies supported by development partners.

Nihal Ranasinghe graduated in Bsc.(Business Administration) Special from the University of Sri Jayawardenapura and obtained a Master Degree in Public Administration with a Merit pass (MPA) from the Post Graduate Institute of Management, University of Sri Jayawardenapura.