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Amb. Huang Ping assumed duties as Consul General of the People’s Republic of China in New York in November 2018.

Previously, he served as Ambassador to Zimbabwe from 2015 to 2018. His career path includes Director-General of Consular Affairs Department in Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), Consul General of China in Chicago, Deputy Director-General of Consular Affairs Department in MFA, Deputy Mayor of Shaoxing City in Zhejiang Province, Counselor in Chinese Embassy in Canada, and third secretary in Chinese Embassy in the United States.

Amb. Huang was born in January 1963 in Guizhou Province. He earned his B.A. degree in Science from East China Normal University, M.A. degree in Arts from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and MPA from Chinese Academy of Governance and Peking University.

Fernando Reimers is the Ford Foundation Professor of the Practice of International Education and Director of the Global Education Innovation Initiative at Harvard University. He is an elected member of the US National Academy of Education and of the International Academy of Education.

An expert in the field of Global Education, his research and teaching focus on understanding how to educate children and youth so they can thrive in the 21st century. He was a member of UNESCOs Commission on the Futures of Education which wrote the report ‘Reimagining Our Futures Together. A New Social Contract for Education’. He was a member of the advisory committee of the UN Education Summit. He has developed a curriculum aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals which is in use in many schools throughout the world. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he led numerous comparative studies examining the educational consequences of the pandemic and identifying options to sustain educational opportunities and to build back better. 

He directs the Global Education Innovation Initiative, a cross-country research and practice collaborative focusing on education for the 21st century. He has written or edited 50 books and over 100 articles and chapters and has authored several children’s books focused on inclusive values.

As part of his commitment to advancing educational opportunities, he serves on multiple advisory boards and committees at Harvard. He also serves on the boards of a range of education organizations focused on the improvement of education and the promotion of peace, inclusion, and sustainability. He has served on the Harvard faculty since 1998. Previous to that he worked at the Universidad Central de Venezuela, the Harvard Institute for International Development, and the World Bank.

Chris Dede is a Senior Research Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and was for 22 years its Timothy E. Wirth Professor in Learning Technologies. His fields of scholarship include emerging technologies, policy, and leadership. From 2001-2004, he was Chair of the HGSE Department of Teaching and Learning. In 2007, he was honored by Harvard University as an outstanding teacher, and in 2011 he was named a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association. In 2023 he was named a Fellow of the Online Learning Consortium.

In 2020, Chris co-founded the Silver Lining for Learning Initiative. He is currently an Advisor to the Alliance for the Future of Digital Learning, sponsored by the Mohammed bin Rashid Global Initiative (MBRGI). Also, Chris is a Co-Principal Investigator and Associate Director for Research of the NSF-funded National Artificial Intelligence Institute in Adult Learning and Online Education.

His most recent co-edited books include Teacher Learning in the Digital Age: Online Professional Development in STEM Education; Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Realities in Education; Learning Engineering for Online Education: Theoretical Contexts and Design-based Examples; and The 60-Year Curriculum: New Models for Lifelong Learning in the Digital Economy. 

Anant is the chief platform officer of 2U, founder of edX, and professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT. He launched edX in 2012 and guided the organization’s vision to expand access to high-quality education for everyone, everywhere. As the first educator to teach an edX course on circuits and electronics from MIT, Anant drew 155,000 students from 162 countries. Today, he leverages his expertise in building powerful online learning engines to drive edX’s growth as one of the world’s most comprehensive free-to-degree online learning platforms, under parent company 2U. Anant holds a bachelor’s degree from IIT Madras and a Ph.D. from Stanford University.

Eileen is an investor, advisor, and board member in education technology. Eileen is currently an Innovation Fellow at the Harvard iLab. A co-founder of LearnLaunch, Eileen received her MBA from Harvard Business School, and her BA from Brown University, where she served as a Trustee and is currently Chair of the Advisory Committee on Computing and Information Technology. A software leader for over thirty years, she led Lotus Notes, the first generation of collaboration software, with hundreds of millions of users. She has served on four public company boards, is an active angel investor (Sankaty Growth Partners), and is a member of Launchpad Venture Group.

She currently serves on the board of workforce-tech startup AceUp, as well as non-profits KnowledgeWorks, New Tech Network, and the Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education. A graduate of the Broad Superintendent’s Academy, Eileen served as Chief Officer of College and Career for Chicago Public Schools, the nation’s third-largest public school system. Eileen regularly serves as a judge in many edtech competitions, including the Harvard President’s Innovation Challenge, Milken-Penn GSE Business Plan, Learning Tools Competition, SxSWedu Launch, and Edtech Week Competitions.

Eileen is an avid naturalist and birder, as well as a cyclist. She is the mother of three sons and grandmother of five.

Joleen is the Co-Founder of Squirrel Ai Learning, received her Ph.D in Intelligent Science and Systems at Macau University of Science and Technology, and serves as the visiting Professor at The Research Institute for Innovation and Technology in Education (UNIR iTED). She serves as the founder/director of AI+Adaptive Education International Conference (AIAED); the secretary of the IEEE International K-12 Education Standards Working Group; the vice-Dean of Intelligent Education Committee, China Automation Congress; the deputy head of the Technology and Standards Working Group, the Smart Education Working Committee of the Internet Society of China; and the executive director of the Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Education Committee of the China Education Development Strategy Society. Joleen has spoken at World Summit AI together with Yoshua Bengio and Stefania Giannini, Assistant Director General for Education, UNESCO. Joleen was also invited to speak at domestic and international AI-related academic and education summits including IJCAI, ACM KDD, ACM UMAP, and UBS Investor Conference, and she has been interviewed by Bloomberg and other media.

Joleen has led the promotion of smart education public school projects and AI Intelligent hardware, which has served 60,000+ full-time primary and secondary schools nationwide. The company Squirrel Ai has brought AI intelligent learning systems/hardware to more than 20 million users. In 2020, Joleen and Squirrel Ai were honored with the ‘AI Education Innovation Award’ by UNESCO. Squirrel Ai’s case study in online learning was published in UNESCO reports. 

Joleen is also the founder/director of the AI+Adaptive Education International Conference (AIAED) focusing on important trends emerging from AI-tech applied to next-generation education and how these advances can impact adaptive human learning at scale.

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