Christina Bornatici completed her studies in international relations and socioeconomics at the University of Geneva. Since 2015, she is a researcher at FORS - the Swiss Center of Expertise in Social Sciences, where she is involved in the development of European research infrastuctures. Since 2018, she is also a PhD candidate at the University of Lausanne. Her research interests lie in the field of gender equality, where she mainly focuses on attitudes towards gender equality and couples’ work-family organisation. In 2022, she published an comprehensive report on the situation of young women in Switzerland under the mandate of the Federal Commission for Women’s Issues.

Christina Bornatici a effectué ses études en relations internationales et en socioéconomie à l'Université de Genève. Depuis 2015, elle est chercheuse à FORS - le Centre de compétences suisse en sciences sociales, où elle participe au développement d'infrastructures de recherche en Europe. Depuis 2018, elle est également doctorante à l'Université de Lausanne. Ses intérêts de recherche portent sur l'égalité des genres. Elle s'intéresse notamment aux attitudes envers l'égalité des genres et à l'organisation travail-famille des couples. En 2022, elle a publié un vaste rapport sur la situation des jeunes femmes en Suisse sur le mandat de la Commission fédérale pour les questions féminines.

Monika was born and grew up in London and read Law at the University of Birmingham. She has worked in search and recruitment within the education sector since 2007, leading the international and independent schools consultancy division at The Times Educational Supplement (now TES Global) and subsequently for independent search firms and directly with schools. This has included working with individual schools, Boards and ‘not for profit’ organisations as well as large multinational school groups, investors, education providers and school brand international expansion & start up projects; creating whole school HR and recruitment plans and appointing to executive & senior support function roles. As such, her network covers both the educationalist and commercial & operational side of school leadership.

Alongside her work in search, Monika specialises in delivering training on best practice recruitment, recruitment strategy & retention and process management.

Valerie Hannon is a global thought leader, inspiring systems to re-think what ‘success’ will mean in the C 21st, and the implications for education. The co-founder of both Innovation Unit and of the Global Education Leaders Partnership, Valerie is a radical voice for change, whilst grounded in a deep understanding of how education systems currently work.

After a distinguished career within education, Valerie now works independently to support change programs across the world. She has advised governments and worked with systems and schools on every continent, working with some of the most challenged as well as the leaders in education innovation.

Valerie advised the OECD on its Education 2030 project. She is a regular keynote speaker and facilitator at international conferences and workshops, drawing upon her substantial research and publications.

Valerie was the Australian Learning Lecturer for 2020 on the subject of The Future School. The resulting book FutureSchool is published by Routledge.  In 2021 she received the Edufuturists’ award for Outstanding Achievement in Education.
Valerie is the Chair of the Haringey Education Partnership and a Trustee of Apps For Good.

Associate Professor Eeqbal Hassim is an internationally recognised expert in intercultural education, the development of complex capabilities, and education in transnational contexts. He is an independent education consultant and an Honorary Principal Fellow at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education (MGSE), The University of Melbourne.

Eeqbal is an Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI)® Qualified Administrator. He works extensively with schools, school systems and school organisations, both internationally and across a range of curricula. He has collaborated with the Council of International Schools (CIS) on a broad range of research, intercultural learning, global citizenship, and diversity, equity, and inclusion projects over the last seven years.

He is also a member of the CIS Board Committee on I-DEA (Inclusion via Diversity, Equity and Anti-racism).

Sean Lionadh is an award-winning poet, filmmaker and speaker from Glasgow, Scotland.

His short film, Time for Love, which explores the experience of modern day homophobia was seen by more than 16 million people online when it was released by BBC.

When visiting schools, Sean uses his work as a starting point for discussions on empathy, queer identity and experience, and allyship.

(Organisation suisse d'aide aux réfugiés (OSAR))

Having completed a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish Literature and a Master’s degree in German Literature, I worked as a middle school teacher and as an adult educator for German. At the same time, I was finalizing my Federal Trainer Diploma. I then worked a couple of years as a social worker. Nevertheless, my predilection area being migration and integration, I started looking for an opening in the vast world of NGOs.

Luckily for me, I didn’t have to look for a long time. I’ve started working for the Swiss Refugee Council in January 2021 as a training co-manager in French-speaking Switzerland.

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