Panelists:

Prof Tikki Pangestu is a Visiting Professor at NUS's Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine. Prior to this, he taught at NUS's Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, and was the Director of Research Policy & Cooperation for WHO in Geneva for 13 years. As a passionate educator, he has been teaching at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels for 40 years, in the fields of microbiology, immunology, global health and public policy.

Mr Philipp Schmidt is the Director of Learning Innovation at the MIT Media Lab, where he leads learning initiatives and conducts research on learning communities. He is also a co-founder of Peer2Peer University (P2PU), a network of grassroot learning communities in 194 cities. He has received Ashoka and Shuttleworth fellowships, and served on the founding board of the OpenCourseWare Consortium.

Ms Sooinn Lee is the co-founder and CEO of Enuma Inc., a Silicon Valley EdTech company, and the co-winner of the USD15M Global Learning XPrize. Enuma’s learning apps Kitkit School, Todo Math and Todo English are motivating millions of young children from around the world (including underserved kids in rural African villages and refugee camps) learn essential literacy and numeracy skills independently. 

Dr Ethel Agnes P. Valenzuela is the Secretariat Director of the Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization (SEAMEO). She played leadership roles in several functions of SEAMEO since 2006 and gained extensive experience in international education. She had also served the Philippine government through the Commission on Higher Education and contributed to key UNESCO and UNICEF regional programmes.