Ms. May is Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Bridge International. As an award-winning teacher at primary and tertiary levels, Ms. May is focused on ensuring that Bridge supports teachers, empowers school leaders, and ensures every child has the learning support needed to master the national syllabus and have the confidence to succeed in a competitive world. Ms.

Ms. Cai is the co-founder/CMO of Phantom Whale VR (virtual reality), a leader of VR education in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) specialized in K-12 education, professional trainings as well as distance education in immersive VR/AR/MR (virtual reality/augmented reality/mixed reality) settings, a national high-tech company with different subsidiaries around PRC and the United States; and with many awards including Best VR Education Platform and Top VR Education Start-up. Cai is also the founder of AR Virtual Dressing in Silicon Valley, USA.

Mr. Reddy is Chief of Skills and Employability Branch at ILO Geneva since January 2018. Prior to this, he was Country Director of the ILO Office in Bangladesh, 2013- 2017. Mr. Reddy has previously been a senior advisor on TVET and Skills Development Specialist and has worked in ILO field offices in India, Indonesia, and Bangladesh. His professional career in industrial relations, skills development, and general management spans over 30 years.

As the Deputy Chief Executive (Industry), Chief Human Resource Officer, and Chief Data Officer at SkillsFuture Singapore (SSG), Mr. Fung is responsible for industry development of the continuing education and training landscape in Singapore, through managing policies, funding and contractual partnerships with private training providers, institutes of higher learning, and enterprises. He is also an adjunct Senior Fellow at the Singapore University of Technology and Design and was a Senior Advisor to the Office of the President at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

Ms. Behncken is the Vice President and Lead of Microsoft Philanthropies. Previously, she led the Microsoft Philanthropies Global Community Engagement team and was Associate General Counsel at Microsoft where she led the Office of the President team and served as Chief of Staff to company President and Chief Legal Officer, Brad Smith. Kate and her team are focused on innovating in new ways to help realize the promise and potential of technology for everyone as they work with underserved communities.

Mr. Pritchett is a development economist from Idaho. He graduated from BYU in 1983 and from MIT with a PhD in Economics in 1988. He worked with the World Bank from 1988 to 2007. He taught at the Harvard Kennedy School from 2000 to 2018 (with some leaves) and is now affiliated with Oxford's Blavatnik School of Government. He has over a hundred publications: journal articles, working papers, book chapters, and books, authored with over fifty different co-authors on topics in development from basic education to economic growth to state capability to labor mobility (and more).