Erum Mariam is the Executive Director of BRAC IED (Institute of Educational Development) BRAC University, in Bangladesh. Mariam completed her PhD in Education from Cambridge University in 2008. She has extensive experience in scaling up education interventions both nationally and globally and was involved in the expansion of the unique BRAC-run Non-Formal Primary (NFP) Schools in the 1990s. Since 2008, Mariam has promoted BRAC IED’s vision of contributing to the improvement of quality, equity, and efficiency in the education system in partnership with the public sector.

Dr. Agarwal is the founder and CEO of edX. He taught the first edX course on circuits and electronics from MIT, which drew 155,000 students from 162 countries. He has served as the director of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and is a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT. A successful serial entrepreneur, he co-founded several companies.

Dr. Dweck is the Lewis and Virginia Eaton Professor of Psychology at Stanford University. She is the originator of theory and research  on fixed and growth mindsets. Her research examines the origins of these mindsets, their role in motivation, and their impact on achievement and well-being. Prior to her current position, Dr. Dweck was professor at the Department of Psychology at Columbia University and professor at the Laboratory of Human Development, Harvard University. She obtained her Ph.D. in psychology from Yale University. Dr.

Patricia Katherine Kuhl (born Mitchell, South Dakota, November 5, 1946) is a Professor of Speech and Hearing Sciences and co-director of the Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences at the University of Washington. She specializes in language acquisition and the neural bases of language, and she has also conducted research on language development in autism and computer speech recognition.

Poornima Jayawardana is a Financial Sector Specialist in SEPF. She has been involved in ADB's financial inclusion interventions in the Southeast Asia region, and leading financial inclusion support for Indonesia. Poornima holds an MSc in International Development from the University of Manchester in the UK, and BBA, MBA, and PhD degrees from the Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University in Japan. She has also received Professional Education on Financial Inclusion and Financial Technology from Harvard University in the USA, Oxford University, and Cambridge University in the UK.