6 February 2019 | 09:00 - 18:00 European Parliament | PHS P1002 | 60 Rue Wiertz | B-1047 Brussels | Belgium

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This exclusive, day-long gathering will provide a glimpse into the future of education through insights from innovators in

leadership education, lessons from those who have achieved success, a re-imagination of education and schools and a global

and inclusive outlook on education.

Through formal sessions, morning and afternoon breaks for coffee and conversations over lunch, we will advance the

important work of driving change through educating the next generation of global leaders and engage with the most pressing challenges and advancements in education. The conference will be broadcast live on Facebook and the recording made available

to share beyond the walls of the European Parliament.

6 February 2019 | 09:00 - 18:00 European Parliament | PHS P1002 | 60 Rue Wiertz | B-1047 Brussels | Belgium

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O ver the past year, I have had the great pleasure of engaging with members of the European Parliament on questions of the future of education and leadership development. Today, it is with deep

gratitude to the ECR Group, Member of the European Parliament, Amjad Bashir, and his team, that ALA presents one of the outcomes of these interactions, Cultivating Changemakers, A Conference on the Future of Education.

Today, at the dawn of our second decade, ALA is looking towards that future. In the last few months we have watched ALA Alumni from around Africa, who we identified, developed at ALA and then connected to opportunities, make progress on successful ventures that are starting to impact the lives of thousands. For as many milestones as we achieved in our first ten years, we believe there are many more ahead. Importantly, we believe that the urgency of growing a critical mass of ethical and entrepreneurial leaders has never been greater. The proof that it can be done has also never been more compelling, in light of both our own work and that of like-minded counterparts in education and innovation from around the world.

Our conference speakers are among those counterparts, who have accepted the challenge of sharing their lessons with leaders from Europe and beyond. We have been pleased to see that our conference registrants include some of the world’s most impactful education entrepreneurs, parliamentarians, representatives from top European universities, and other thought-leaders.

It is our hope that this conference, through our ideas, those of our host, speakers and participants, will inspire and galvanize commitment to further leveraging the power of education, to develop the young leaders of today so that they may positively shape the world of tomorrow.

With gratitude,

Chris Bradford

CHRIS BRADFORD Founder and CEO,

African Leadership Academy

I n the European Parliament, there is widespread consensus on the benefits of education for all, irrespective of religious, cultural or ethnic background. Policy makers across the political spectrum

concur in that education is the pre-condition to lift off people from poverty. More opportunities for better, high-skilled jobs equal to more stability, not only in Europe but also - if not more importantly - to many other parts of the world, especially to the developing world.

While agreeing on the merits of education in general is easy, there is an ever growing need to address the innovation on education the future generations need and how to facilitate it. Make no mistake, however, innovation in education is not a luxury that only the affluent parts of the society can or should afford.

In Africa, the Middle East & Asia - the regions where I and many of my colleagues from the European Parliament have been advocating for a step-change towards more economic, political & societal reforms - we can already witness best practices that can inspire us all.

Among these, stands out the African Leadership Academy, a unique non-state education provider aiming to serve as the cradle of the future change-makers, the ethical leaders in businesses and politics in Africa and for Africa.

I am therefore both humbled and honored to convene for the first time ever in the European Parliament, with the support of the ALA, a conference featuring some of the most inspirational pioneers in education for the 21st century. With their valuable insights, I am confident that not only will we get a profound sense of worldwide models of cultivating change-makers through innovation in education, but we, the elected policy makers across the political spectrum, will also feel the urge to facilitate these efforts anyway we can.

Amjad Bashir MEP

AMJAD BASHIR

Member of the European Parliament for Yorkshire

and the Humber, United Kingdom

Registration and Refreshments

Welcome Address • Amjad Bashir MEP, ECR Group, United Kingdom

SESSION ONE

Reimagining Education for the Innovation Era

• Tony Wagner, Harvard University, USA

Tony Wagner, Professor Emeritus, Harvard University Graduate School of Education, bestselling author of Creating Innovators, Most Likely to Succeed, and The Global Achievement Gap, is one of the foremost experts on how education must evolve to meet the needs of the innovation era: an era in which what matters is not what students know, but what they can do with what they know. In this interactive session, Dr. Wagner will frame the questions we must answer if we are to cultivate a generation of changemakers across the globe – and their implications for students, teachers, principals, parents, and policymakers.

Coffee Break

SESSION TWO

Teachers, Learners, Leaders: Lessons for the Classroom

INSPIRATION • Paul Gurney, BecomingX, United Kingdom

INNOVATION • Koen Timmers, CVO De Verdieping, Belgium

CONNECTION • Elisa Guerra, Colegio Valle de Filadelfia, Mexico

COLLABORATION • David Faulkner, Education Changemakers, Australia

MODERATOR

• Vikas Pota, Varkey Foundation, United Kingdom

Four celebrated educators will share a seven-minute ‘TED-style’ presentation about a central belief about the nature of the student-teacher interface – and how we can ensure that each classroom engages and inspires future changemakers. Moderated by Vikas Pota, the group will then explore the central tenets that must guide the work done in the classrooms of the 21st century.

Lunch Break

SESSION THREE What School Could Be: New Models Developing Changemakers

The school is the central organizing unit of our educational systems, home to a community of teachers and learners. This conversation will explore the opportunity to reframe our schools as leadership development institutions, connecting three unique projects on three continents – each of which seeks to rethink education for their context and purposefully create leaders for the 21st century.

• Hatim Eltayeb, African Leadership Academy, Sudan

• Matej Sapak, LEAF Academy, Slovakia

• Diego Ontaneda Benavides, Latin America Leadership Academy, Peru

MODERATOR:

• Primrose Adjepong, Oxford University, United Kingdom

ENCOURAGING SKILLS MASTERY: LESSONS FROM SINGAPOREAt Singapore Management University, Lai Cheng Lim has shaped SkillsFuture: a national movement to provide Singaporeans with the opportunities to develop their fullest potential throughout their lives. The objective is to shape learning for the next phase of Singapore’s development – one in which every citizen can constantly develop as a changemaker for the innovation era.

• Lai Cheng Lim, Singapore Management University, Singapore in conversation with

• Alim Ladha, Instill Education

Break

SESSION FOUR

Enabling Transformative Change: Policy and Practice

PROMOTING COLLECTIVE LEADERSHIP • Anna Molero, Teach for All, Spain

BUILDING TECHNICAL LITERACY • The Honorable Anusha Rahman, Former Minister of ICT, Pakistan

INVESTING IN SUCCESS • Dr. Asmaa Al-Fadala, WISE, Qatar

After seven minute “TED-Style” talks, three distinguished leaders from the forefront of government and civil society will explore the opportunities how the work of policymakers, development agencies, and philanthropists can enable the transformation of educational systems around the globe.

ACTING WITH INTENTION• Chris Bradford, Founder and CEO of African Leadership Academy

Chris Bradford will conclude our convening with lessons learned from a decade of building the future – and a challenge for our assembled audience.

Conclusion and Cocktails

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PROGRAMME

Asmaa Alfadala is the director of research and content development at the World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE). She is also a visiting fellow at the University of Northwestern in the US. She has twenty years of professional experience in schools as well as higher education. Asmaa was an associate policy analyst at the RAND-Qatar Policy Institute. Before Qatar Foundation, she worked in the Ministry of Education as a teacher, then as a head of the science department. She is the author of ‘K-12 Reform in the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries (GCC): Challenges and Policy Recommendations’ and co-author of ‘Developing Agile leaders of learning: school leadership policy for dynamic times’ published by WISE, Qatar Foundation. She is a member of the Comparative International Education Society (CIES), and the International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement (ICSEI). Asmaa serves as an advisor for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation’s education strategy. She is also a board member at Qatar Academy Sidra school in Doha. She has served at Qatar University as an assistant professor of educational sciences at the College of Education. Asmaa holds a Ph.D. and M.Phil. from Cambridge University, UK.

ASMAA ALFADALAQATAR

Director of Research and Content Development, World Innovation Summit for Education (Wise)

Diego Ontaneda Benavides is co-founder and CEO of the Latin American Leadership Academy (LALA). Diego’s passion for social and economic development took him from McKinsey & Company to the African Leadership Academy (ALA) in Johannesburg. At ALA, he was inspired by the vast potential he saw in empowering the region’s most promising young leaders to solve their own communities’ problems. After running two pilots in Latin America with co-founder David Baptista, he and David founded LALA in 2018. Diego graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa with a BA in political economy from Williams College. He is an IDIF Fellow at Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he is MBA Class of 2018.

DIEGO ONTANEDA BENAVIDES PERU

Co-Founder & CEO, Latin American Leadership Academy

Chris Bradford is the Founder and CEO of African Leadership Academy, an institution that seeks to transform Africa by identifying, developing, and connecting future generations of leaders from across the continent.

Chris brings a hybrid background in business and education to his work designing and building educational institutions of excellence. He previously worked with the Procter and Gamble Company, the Boston Consulting Group, The Broad Foundation, and at Oundle School. As a graduate student at Stanford University, Chris and colleague Fred Swaniker began to build African Leadership Academy.

CHRIS BRADFORD UNITED STATES

Founder and CEO,African Leadership Academy

Hatim was among the first faculty members of African Leadership Academy. From 2009-2012, he taught primarily in the African Studies department. He also chaired the Seminal Readings Committee, shaping the curriculum for a unique Socratic course at the heart of the Academy. In 2011, he was named ALA “Teacher of the Year”. As Dean of the Academy, Hatim leads teachers and students in our flagship two year program, and shapes a campus community and teams with innovation that leverages its exceptional cultural diversity.

Hatim is a 2009 graduate of Harvard University, where he completed a B.A. in Government with a secondary concentration in Political and Moral Philosophy.

HATIM ELTAYEB SUDAN

Dean, African Leadership Academy

Dave is the CEO and co-founder of Education Changemakers (EC), a grassroots educator with a proven track record, and in recent years has emerged as a global leader in education innovation. A former principal of the year in Australia, Dave is an in demand chair and keynote speaker for some of the world’s largest education events. Dave has shared the stage with education innovators including Ken Robinson, Angela Lee Duckworth, Anthony Salcito and Sugata Mitra and has a powerful grasp and influence on the changes taking place in schools across the globe. Dave is a global leader in accelerating education startups, works with thousands of educators each year and advises senior government, education leaders and company executives across the globe. One of our most in-demand speakers at EC, Dave spends more than two hundred days a year engaging with education audiences.

DAVE FAULKNERAUSTRALIA

CEO and Co-Founder, Education Changemakers

FEATURED SPEAKERS

Paul Gurney has long been fascinated with how great people became great – and how we might inspire future leaders with the lessons from the world’s most successful people. To that end, he partnered with Bear Grylls and has captured the stories of Lewis Hamilton, Kate Winslet, Roger Federer, and many more.

In 2018, this former Accenture Managing Director launched Becoming X: a video and curriculum series that seeks to inspire one hundred million people worldwide with the secrets of transformative success.

PAUL GURNEYUNITED KINGDOM

CEO, BecomingX

Elisa Guerra is the founder of Colegio Valle de Filadelfia, a school that provides primary and secondary education in Aguascalientes. Central to her school’s model are the teaching resources she created in the face of a gap she perceived in the marketplace, and the special emphasis she places on encouraging respect for others and valuing diversity in culture, art and music. Recently Pearson Education published 12 of her textbooks for preschoolers and their educators. Her model has been franchised and is present in five Mexican cities and in Costa Rica.

Elisa has shared her insights with the teaching profession online and at conferences all over Latin America. She has been invited twice by ‘Save The Children’ and a local foundation for children to train over 500 teachers in Bolivia in setting up learning environments for young children. In addition she has been working with brain-injured children as a volunteer at The Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential for over a decade. She has been the recipient of the “Brazilian Gold Medal of Honor” given jointly by The Institutes and Centro de Reabilitação Nossa Senhora da Glória, in recognition of her “outstanding service to children in Latin America,” and is currently a World Teacher of the Year.

ELISA GUERRAMEXICO

Founder, Colegio Valle de Filadelfia

Dr Lim Lai Cheng is the former Principal of Raffles Junior College, arguably the top high school in the world. She is currently the Executive Director of SMU Academy, the professional training arm of Singapore Management University (SMU) and Fellow, School of Social Sciences. She oversees SMU’s SkillsFuture agenda, continuing education and technology-related innovation in teaching and learning. Dr Lim is advisor to several education foundations in Sweden, Slovakia, South Africa, and Russia. She is also involved in education projects in Singapore, Hong Kong and Malaysia. She was conferred the Chevalier Dans L’ Ordre Des Palmes Academiques by the French Education Minister in 2012 for her key role in advancing educational collaboration and initiatives between France and Singapore.

DR. LAI CHENG LIMSINGAPORE

Executive Director, SMU Academy, Singapore Management University

Anna is the Chief, Government & Multilateral Partnerships at Teach For All, a global network of 48 independent, locally led and governed national partner organizations with the vision to develop collective leadership to ensure all children have the opportunity to fulfill their potential. She has over 15 years’ experience in economic promotion, entrepreneurship support, youth skills and employment policies and institutional partnerships development. Prior to joining Teach For All, she was a founding partner of a boutique consulting firm and advised intergovernmental bodies on fostering skills development and economic growth in European, MENA and LATAC countries. As the former CEO of the economic development agency of Barcelona’s municipal government she was in charge of promoting youth skills, business support and human capital development. Anna is a graduate of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, the London School of Economics, and Sciences-Po. She has also taken executive courses at Harvard Kennedy School of Government and IESE Business School and at Stanford University. Anna is part of the Board and Judges committees of different non for profit initiatives such as Start Up Chile, Start Up Peru, the Asian based charity The Hub, the Basic Education Coalition, and an alum of the Marshal Memorial Fellowship and the Singularity University of the USA.

ANNA MOLEROSPAIN

Chief Government Officer, Teach for All

Anusha Rahman Khan is politically affiliated with Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) and is a Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan since 2008. She is a member of National Assembly Standing Committees on Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs, Information Technology and Communication and Science and Technology. She is General Secretary of the Young Parliamentary Forum of the National Assembly, and a founding member of the Parliamentary Caucus Against Corruption. She is on the Board of Punjab Education Endowment Fund and Government Fatima Jinnah College for Women, Lahore. Anusha has been Central Vice President of the Lawyer’s Wing of Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) and Deputy Convener, Legal and Anti Rigging Wing of the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz). During Elections 2008, she co-authored an election publication ‘Corrupt and Illegal Practices-A New Pardigm of Blatant Violations’

ANUSHA RAHMANPAKISTAN

Former Minister for ICT, Pakistan

Vikas Pota is Chairman of the Varkey Foundation, a family foundation seeking to improve global teacher capacity and promote universal access to quality education. As its founding CEO, he spearheaded the training of over 25,000 teachers and has pioneered an innovative technology platform to reach marginalized girls in Sub-Saharan Africa as well as addressing the refugee crisis using this same platform; has designed a leadership program for school directors in Argentina; convenes the Global Education & Skills Forum; and organizes the Global Teacher Prize, which seeks to celebrate the achievement of classroom teachers and uplift the status of the profession. Vikas is a Visiting Practitioner in Education at Harvard University, an Honorary Lecturer at UCL Institute of Education, a Policy Leaders Fellow at the Centre for Science & Policy at Cambridge University, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, and was selected by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader for his work in education. Vikas received an Honorary Doctorate in 2016 and was listed by London’s Evening Standard newspaper as being in the Progress 1000 list of most influential Londoners in 2016.

VIKAS POTAUNITED KINGDOM

Chairman of the Board, Varkey Foundation

Matej Sapák is a graduate of Harvard and Harvard Law School. He is the principal of LEAF Academy, a Slovak non-profit dedicated to helping talented young people live inspiring stories of leadership. LEAF seeks to transform Slovakia and Central Europe by developing the next generation of leaders.

Matej greatly enjoys getting to know talented young Central Europeans and helping them kindle their curiosity and develop their stories.

MATEJ SAPÁKSLOVAKIA

Principal, LEAF Academy

Dr. Moinina David Sengeh is the Chief Innovation Officer, Directorate of Science, Technology, and Innovation for the Government of Sierra Leone. He is globally recognized for his work and accomplishments, most notably for seeding the development of the innovation ecosystem in Sierra Leone through Global Minimum and the Innovate Salone program, which he co-founded in 2007 and which has supported the innovation journeys of thousands of young Sierra Leoneans. Dr. Sengeh completed his Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he developed award-winning technology for human augmentation. He received his bachelor’s degree at Harvard University in Engineering Sciences, where his research focused on aerosolized vaccines for tuberculosis.

DR. DAVID SENGEHSIERRA LEONE

Chief Innovation Officer, Government of Sierra Leone

Tony Wagner is one of the world’s foremost pundits on the future of education, and the bestselling author of The Global Achievement Gap and Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change The World. He served as founder and Co-director of the Change Leadership Group at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and was the first Innovation Education Fellow at Harvard’s Technology & Entrepreneurship Center. He was also the founding executive director of Educators for Social Responsibility. Wagner consults widely to schools, districts, and foundations around the country and internationally.

TONY WAGNERUNITED STATES

Senior Research Fellow, Learning Policy Institute

Koen is passionate about inspiring people through teaching and this has led him to found more than one innovative project that has made a big difference beyond his immediate school teaching. Koen teaches Computer Science in a Belgian school, but has also created Project Kakuma, an initiative in which more than 100 global educators teach African refugees via Skype. This began when he started to teach refugee students via Skype himself, finding sponsors to host the calls and even sending his own equipment to the refugee camp. He also founded the largest educational website in Belgium, zelfstudie.be, which offers more than 60 digital courses, supporting 19,500 online students – many of whom are teachers themselves.

KOEN TIMMENSBELGIUM

CVO De Verdieping

Global Scholars ProgramAn international summer leadership camp like no other

Built around ALA’s unique Entrepreneurial Leadership and African Studies curricula, our summer program engages young leaders from around the world in social entrepreneurship, design thinking, leadership training, adventure, and cross-cultural exchange. Participants practice leadership by working with social ventures, learn from startup and experienced entrepreneurs, develop skills through team-based challenges, build a global network of peers, and discover the history, beauty, and diversity of South Africa.

GSP creates a challenging and stimulating environment for emerging leaders to collaborate with a diverse group of their peers from around the world to share ideas and identify opportunities for global change.

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Two Year Pre-University DiplomaA two year pre-university program centered on Entrepreneurial Leadership, African Studies and Writing & Rhetoric, and the Cambridge A’Levels

Each year, ALA identifies young leaders between the ages of 16 and 19 with demonstrated leadership potential and a strong sense of purpose. Through our unique curriculum at the Academy, they develop the skills, mindset and network to contribute towards our mission of enabling lasting peace and shared prosperity across the continent. After graduating, ALA continues to cultivate these leaders throughout their lives, in university and beyond. We support their growth through access to internships, career opportunities and high-impact networks of people and capital that will empower them to create transformative change.

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The Anzisha PrizeAfrica’s premier award for young entrepreneurs aged 15-22, who have started and are actively running innovative social ventures or for-profit businesses with potential

In collaboration with The MasterCard Foundation, the Anzisha Prize seeks to stimulate, celebrate, nurture and scale young entrepreneurs who have developed and implemented innovative solutions to social challenges or started successful businesses within their communities. Each year, 12 finalists from across Africa will win an all-expenses paid trip to South Africa to be a part of a weeklong entrepreneurship workshop and conference at African Leadership Academy. The grand prize winners, selected from these finalists, will share prizes worth $75,000 USD.

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The European Parliament ECR Group

The ECR Group is a political group in the European Parliament. Founded with 8 Member States and 54 MEPs in 2009, it has now grown to become the third largest group in the European Parliament with over 70 members from 19 EU countries hailing from 26 different political parties. The ECR Group believes in fostering an EU that is safe, secure, competitive and prosperous for all.

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African Leadership Academy

African Leadership Academy (ALA) seeks to transform Africa by developing a powerful network of leaders that can achieve extraordinary social impact. Each year, ALA brings together the most promising young leaders from all 54 African nations for its pre-university program in South Africa. Students complete a unique curriculum focused on Entrepreneurial Leadership and African Studies. ALA cultivates these leaders in university and beyond, providing ongoing leadership training and connecting them to people and capital that can catalyze large-scale change.

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ALAMAUAfrican Leadership Academy Model African UnionA leadership conference for the next generation of global diplomatic leaders

African Leadership Academy Model African Union (ALAMAU) is an annual leadership conference for young leaders around Africa and across the world, simulating the activities of the African Union. ALAMAU was established in 2013 as a platform for young leaders to develop implementable solutions to African development challenges through diplomacy and international cooperation, in a format inspired by the Model United Nations and the African Union. Delegates to ALAMAU serve as representatives of various African governments on organs of the African Union, affording them the opportunity to study complex African issues, understand the positions of African countries, and learn to successfully negotiate without compromising national interests.

By assuming the roles of African leaders, ALAMAU aims to empower young leaders to model international cooperation for development while celebrating diversity. The week-long conference experience is centered around high-level debates and negotiations, but also includes topic talks by African Union officials and multi-sectoral experts, a diplomatic roundtable featuring ambassadors from several countries, educational tours to historic sites in Johannesburg and an amazing cultural night celebrating the continent’s diversity. There are also parallel conference sessions for educators who participate in roundtable discussions with thought-leaders, and engage in peer learning to advance their knowledge of critical issues on the continent.

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