Young Leaders

Dr. Tiantian Jin is a conscientious leader with fierce passion and a pioneering spirit for education. She received advanced training in scientific research at Columbia University, graduating with a Ph.D. in Cognitive Science in Education and a Master’s degree in Learning Analytics. She believes that the true destination of research resides in its application to boost learning effectiveness and make rapid impacts on learners in real life, instead of numbers on research papers. This cannot be achieved merely through academic training. Accordingly, while still at school, she had vigorously started to develop professional skills and broaden her horizon in various types of organizations, such as an EdTech start-up and the New York Times, to search for innovative solutions to education.

After graduation, Tiantian joined Pearson, the largest global education company, as a Senior Teaching & Learning Design Researcher. She led all types of research and used evidence to develop cutting-edge educational solutions. Her current research focuses on how to help students develop 21st-century skills and employability, and how to apply emerging technology to the authentic learning experience. The ultimate goal of all her work is to help students be well prepared for new challenges when they step out of campus and become successful lifelong learners.

Xuehua (Felix) Xiao

Xuehua Xiao (Felix) is a 23-year-old Beijing native. He is currently a graduate student at Columbia University, where he is studying Adult Learning and Leadership. At the age of 17, Felix was awarded The United Nations-China National Campus Contest in Photography “Special Prize.” He is co-founder and chairman of Chinese Overseas Student Conference. Past attendees include representatives from China’s 100 top industry leaders, and discussions have centered on education, finance, artificial intelligence (AI) and others, collectively representing 11 areas of leadership. In the last three years, over 5,000 live audience members and more than 80,000 online streaming viewers have tuned in to the Conference. Chinese Overseas Student Conference ranks among the most influential and nonprofit organizations among Chinese overseas students. In 2019, Felix was named to Forbes China 30 Under 30 list, and recognized as one of the 2019 Hurun Report 30x30 Leading Entrepreneurs.

Changyang Liu

Changyang worked for the Early Childhood Education Project of Forum for World Education. She is also in a Master of Education program at Teachers College, Columbia University.

Changyang graduated from University of Toronto with a master’s degree in economics. After graduation, she had many years of investment banking experience in China, where she participated and managed in many deals that help listed and private companies financing in capital market. During these years of work, she began to have an interest in the education industry. Among the clients she worked with, the education industry company became a new growth engine of the market for their increasing cashflows. But she realized that education cannot be allocated sufficiently only by market, there must be enough attention and policy from the government. Her enthusiasm for the policy studies and reform shifted her from the private sector to the public sector. She had been a consultant in the World Bank for China’s urban financing policy study and advices. She was also a member of the Center of Public Policy and Leadership at Columbia Law School, where she acted as a policy consultant for non-government organization at Washington DC to promote potential litigation and policy reform.

Grace Na

Born with Korean roots in Southern California, Grace is driven by a lifelong passion for empowering disadvantaged populations through cross-border educational advocacy. Her experiences living in Beijing, Seoul, and New York have equipped and provided her with opportunities to work with diverse populations and at different scales of organization. At the community level, Grace has provided direct educational assistance to low-income youth and refugees at nonprofit organizations across Asia and the United States. At the national level, she has assisted in the advocacy for human rights before government bodies in Washington D.C. and New York. At the international engagement level, she has interned for a number of United Nations organizations and associations such as UNESCO and WFUNA. It was her time volunteering at a social enterprise that provides women coming out of exploitation with education and business opportunities in Asia, however, that launched her into examining the close relationship between public policy and educational access. After writing a thesis on this topic through a comparative case study, Grace decided to expand her advocacy skills and knowledge of the subject through an M.A. in International Educational Development at Teachers College, Columbia University. Upon graduating, she wholeheartedly threw herself into building the Forum for World Education (FWE) from its beginning stages as a venue for developing international and intersectional solutions to educational inequities.

Ting Zhao

Ting Zhao, holds a Master's degree in Education at Teachers College of Columbia University. She serves as Director of Developmental Affairs at the Forum for World Education (FWE), a prestigious U.S. non-profit organization dedicated to fostering global dialogue among business leaders, educational decision-makers, and scholars. At FWE, she collaborates with top universities on vital issues such as economic growth and education, workforce quality, the mental health of adolescents in the post-COVID era, digital society employment prospects, and advocacy for the educational resources of disadvantaged groups. These works have cemented her reputation as a dynamic researcher in the field of education. Her interdisciplinary research influenced by John Dewey focuses on social-emotional skills, cognitive development, leadership, and innovative learning. Ting is currently a Doctoral Candidate in Education at Teachers College, Columbia University.

Maryam AlHashmi

Maryam AlHashmi is a Sorbonne University graduate with a Bachelor's degree in Economics and Management. As an avid inventor, Maryam’s journey in innovating recycled plastic photovoltaic cells fueled her passion in climate advocacy. She utilized her diplomatic role as a UAE Youth Ambassador to China under the Crown Prince Court of Abu Dhabi to develop policy proposals for UAE and Chinese stakeholders to further advance the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and assess climate strategies. Harnessing her involvement in Agenda 2030, Maryam contributed to the authoring of the UAE SDG Annual Report 2017, in which she highlighted the youth’s role in implementing the global goals. She worked on UAE’s file for the High-Level Political Forum where she helped draft the UAE’s Voluntary National Review. To increase cultural understanding and reach all levels of society, Maryam is ardently learning foreign languages, and currently speaks Arabic, English, French, Spanish and Chinese. AlHashmi currently serves as an SDG Associate under the Director General’s Office at Expo 2020. She aims to use this platform and her interests in climate policy and sustainability to move the needle and connect young minds to advance Agenda 2030 and increase youth participation in climate policy.

Maitha AlMemari

Maitha AlMemari graduated from New York University in Abu Dhabi with a BA in Social Research and Public Policy, and minors in Legal Studies and Political Science. She has recently completed a Masters of Public Policy at the University of Oxford, and is currently a Rhodes Scholar pursuing the MSc in Comparative International Education at the University of Oxford. Maitha’s interests lie in education, intercultural engagement, and public policy. She has completed internships at the Crown Prince Court – Office of Strategic Affairs, the UAE Permanent Mission to the UN, the Education and Human Resource Council, and Palmwood, a design firm developed as a collaboration between IDEO and the UAE government.
During her time at NYU, Maitha's research focused on understanding how Emirati youth make decisions about higher education. A passionate public servant, Maitha used her summer project as an opportunity to explore new policy tools to positively transform government practices in her home country, the UAE.
A firm believer in the importance of learning from her peers, Maitha enjoys mentoring and teaching a group of female high school students about leadership and female empowerment, as part of the Girls Education Network. During her first year at Oxford, Maitha helped organize an experiential learning event for high school students at Oxford to learn more about public service and its impact on their community. An advocate for intercultural engagement, she spoke at TEDxNYUAD, where she addressed stereotypes many have about Emiratis and specifically about the Abaya, a traditional Emirati female clothing.

Alice Amegah

Alice Amegah is a dynamic young Ghanaian lady. She is passionate about Employer Engagement in Education, Skills Development and Inequalities in STEM and TVET. She is a 2016 summa cum laude graduate for the Department of Psychology at the University of Ghana, where she obtained a B.A. in Psychology. She received the Cadbury Price for the Overall Best Graduating Student in Psychology, the Elizabeth Ardayfio-Schandorf Award for Most Outstanding Graduating Student and the Irene Odotei Award for Overall Best Graduating Student in Humanities. 
Afterwards, she worked as an adolescent health counsellor and teacher before pursuing an MSc in Comparative and International Education at the University of Oxford. At Oxford, her research focused on ‘How and Why Employers Engaged with TVET institutions in Ghana’ and received a distinction for her dissertation. In addition to her efforts to understand and contribute to Employer Engagement in Education, Alice interns as a research officer at Education and Employers; an education charity in London that uses technology and research to bring employers from different careers into public schools in England to raise students’ aspirations. She is currently studying towards a PhD in Education at the University of Cambridge. Her PhD research aims to utilise the capability approach as a conceptual framework to understand the life experiences of young women in STEM-TVET in Ghana. As a pragmatist, she believes her research findings should impact quality and equal education, especially for disadvantaged girls. Alice continues to engage policymakers in Ghana to bring about the change she envisions.

Danielle (aka Dani) Bicknell is a Social Impact Advisor and Program Manager for SecondMuse, designing educational programs to help build 21st century economies. She has over a decade of work experience in the private, public and nonprofit sectors to create human-centered solutions to real-world problems. Before joining SecondMuse, she was the program manager of the Big Ideas Contest, at the Blum Center for Developing Economies headquartered at UC Berkeley. She has a Bachelor's degree in International Relations at the University of British Columbia and Masters degree in International Development and Education from the University of Pennsylvania; where she focused on international development, social innovation, and gender mainstreaming. Dani also has her own consultancy, Dab Consulting, where she advises startups and organizations internationally; in the areas of research, design, and scale. She has worked for UN agencies, as a programme specialist in the Division for Gender Equality, at UNESCO, and prior to that she was a founding employee of LendUp, a financial technology startup, where she created and scaled the financial education and social impact departments. She has led training, and consulted and collaborated in many different countries, primarily in the U.S., Canada, Latin America, and Europe. Dani is driven by a lifelong passion for empowering girls and women through cross-sector educational opportunities. Her experiences living in North America, South America, and Europe have equipped and provided her with opportunities to work with diverse populations and she believes education should have no borders.

Colombe Cahen-Salvador

Colombe Cahen-Salvador (25, French) is the co-founder and co-Executive Director of NOW!. She previously co-founded Volt, where she was the Policy Lead. In that capacity, she developed the full policy stack of the movement, as well as the first ever pan-European electoral programme. Before co-founding Volt, Colombe worked in various human rights and humanitarian organizations, including Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, the NRC and the OHCHR. She holds a Masters of Law from Duke School of Law, as well as a law degree from Warwick University. 

Kay Ch’ien

Kay is a member of the Edith Yang Team at Douglas Elliman Real Estate, where she skillfully guides buyers, sellers and investors through the complicated New York City property market. She brings her legal and investment experience to the real estate process and her clients benefit from her dedication and attention to detail. 

Prior to entering the real estate business, Kay was a practicing attorney. As a member of the Mergers and Acquisitions group at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, she worked on multi-million to billion dollar M&A, capital markets and private fund transactions. After Simpson, she joined the Entertainment group at Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz, where she focused on motion picture and television work, representing award-winning filmmakers, television producers, film financiers, and television networks.

Kay is also a passionate food entrepreneur - in between her law and real estate careers, she founded one of the first farm to table Chinese restaurants in New York City, garnering significant press attention and commercial success. Born in Singapore and raised in Hong Kong, Kay has made New York home since 2006. She is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania (B.Sc. Economics (Wharton), B.A. History, J.D.). She is admitted to practice law in New York.

Abdourahamane Diallo

Abdourahamane Diallo is currently pursuing a Master's of Global Affairs degree as Schwarzman scholar at Tsinghua University. Schwarzman Scholars Program is one of the most competitive and prominent global scholarships in the 21st century.
Diallo, holds a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration in Finance & Investment with a minor in Communication Studies (conflict resolution) from the Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College and a Leadership Certificate from Columbia Business School.
While at Baruch, Diallo volunteered for the Baruch Math Department as a note taker for disabled students. He founded the Guinean Students Association at Baruch and expanded the club to other City University of New York campuses, which has become a non-profit organization called Guineans Succeeding in America. Diallo has also held prominent leadership roles in several College clubs, including Le Club Francais at Baruch, Baruch Toastmaster, and Sigma Alpha Delta Honor Society.
Outside of campus, Diallo is actively involved with the community. He is currently the Secretary General of the Bronx Borough President African Advisory Council and is a member of the Bronx Community Board 3. Diallo is also the founder and Chairman of the Guinean New Generation Movement, which aims to bring change and empower the Guinean Community through education, social justice, and economic development.

Diallo is a candidate for New York City Council District 16, in the 2021 citywide election.

A visionary leader, Diallo says he’d “rather live one day and change 100 lives than to live 100 years without helping a single soul”

Kaloi Duncan

Born and raised in Maasai community in rural part of Kenya.His a computer scientist and an economist .His founder of www.maasaiduka.org; asocial enterprise that empower artisans from villages ,slums and refugees.An award winning social entrepreneur ;currently working on education project called Mama2Mama ;which help learners learn digital skills and innovation in the community through peer learning .His self-publish author of an impact book www.kaloi.site.

Dominic Feroze

Dominic is an LSE and Oxford graduate currently studying as a Schwarzman Scholar at Tsinghua University in Beijing. He spent the past year in China as a Policy Advisor with the British Chamber of Commerce in China working on post-Brexit, UK-China relations. While at Oxford, his research specialized in China-India economic relations; a topic he will continue to explore at Schwarzman College. He is passionate about technology and education projects to tackle poverty and co-founded “Code Your Chances” to address this issue. He has previous work experience with the TATA Group in Mumbai and JP Morgan in London. Dominic 25 years old and from the United Kingdom.

Yutong Gao

Mr. Gao is the co-founder of Easy Transfer, China’s largest online financial services platform for overseas Chinese students. Easy Transfer strives to provide an easier, faster and more affordable international online wire transfer service for Chinese students. In 2019, Easy Transfer’s total payment volume exceeded 15 Billion RMB.
Mr. Gao has been recognized as one of the youngest entrepreneurs with tremendous potential by numerous media, including Bloomberg Business Week “25 under 25”, Hurun Report “30 under 30”, Harvard China Summits’ top 15 entrepreneurs under 25, LieYun Web’s best 90s’ entrepreneur, and Forbes Finance & Venture Capital’s "30 under 30 Asia".

Priscilla Guo is a 2020 Schwarzman Scholar and Masa Son Fellow. At Schwarzman College, she is the President of the inaugural Schwarzman Technology Summit, which aims to bring together Chinese and American scholars in order to create a global dialogue on technology and its impact on society. Priscilla previously studied at Oxford University as a Clarendon Scholar, where she pursued a Masters at the Oxford Internet Institute. Her dissertation on deepfake and machine learning technology received a distinction. Prior to Oxford, Priscilla graduated from Harvard University ​magna cum laude ​with a B.A. in Technology, Policy, and Society with a secondary in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. At Harvard, she researched the bias of risk assessment algorithms in the criminal justice system and proposed a right to technological due process within sentencing procedure. She also served as the Co-President of the Harvard Undergraduate Women in Business and Harvard Women in Computer Science, as well as the Technology Director and STEAM Chair of the Harvard Institute of Politics.
Priscilla has work experience in both technology and public policy roles at Facebook, Microsoft, Electronic Frontier Foundation, and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Originally from New York City, Priscilla also served as the Youth Representative on the NYC Youth Board, advising the city on youth and community development, and as a National Teen Advisor for the United Nations Foundation Girl Up campaign. She aspires to use her expertise to shape technology policy around the world. She is Chinese-American and 23 years old.

Amanda Morrison


Amanda Morrison is a Schwarzman Scholar at Tsinghua University in Beijing where she is pursuing a Masters in Global Affairs. A US Presidential Scholar from Helena, Montana, Amanda graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University with a degree in international relations and public policy and minors in East Asian studies and film production. Amanda worked as a researcher for Jerome Cohen at the US-Asia Law Institute in New York City focusing on Chinese civil society and stability maintenance. She has presented policy recommendations at the Council on Foreign Relations and White House. Amanda’s award-winning senior thesis examined the media leverage and policy power of China’s feminist movement. As a documentary filmmaker, Amanda also explores authority, eccentrics, and human identity on film. Her short films have screened at national film festivals, including as a part of her distinction as a National YoungArts Winner. She has a forthcoming film on the Chinese feminist movement. In addition to freelance film work, Amanda has worked in feature film development at Skydance Media and for independent producers in LA. At Princeton, Amanda was a dance choreographer and business magazine editor and sat on many boards, including the Mental Health Initiative, the Vote100 Initiative (aimed at increasing voter participation), and Leadership Council, which organized speakers and conversations on campus. She has recently worked on developing innovative education curricula through her position at a digital learning teaching space and as chief-of-staff for a design-thinking conference in New York City.

Truely Harding

My name is Truely Harding, and I am a proud Māori student studying at The University of Waikato. I am a PhD candidate in the third year of my studies and intend on submitting my final thesis at the end of next year. My PhD explores Māori health communication issues as I am passionate about improving the health inequities indigenous people face and removing barriers for access to health care. Another passion of mine is Māori success, for the last 2 years I served as a co-president for the Māori student group at the University of Waikato, Te Waiora, which has a membership of 324 tertiary students. This gave me the opportunity to advocate for Māori students on campus and establish key relationships within the university while playing a small part in the development of future Māori leaders. I believe that Māori educational success lies in the application of the knowledge they have gained while being in a tertiary institute. To me this shows the capability of turning theory into practice. I am also 1 of 8 rangatahi (youth) Māori who recently travelled to Japan to engage in a cultural exchange with the Ainu Indigenous people. From this experience, we will create a documentary web-series to be used as a resource to equip any youth from any walk of life the opportunity to engage meaningfully and build connections regionally, nationally and internationally on their own terms.

Origene Igiraneza

Origene Igiraneza is an entrepreneur, the founder and CEO of O’Genius Priority Ltd. He attended Netpreneur training at Alibaba Business School and JCI- Junior Chamber International leadership academy as global networker. He attended University of Rwanda- College of Science and Technology in engineering department and after he did his entrepreneurship specialization at Wharton School University of Pennsylvania. He is a leader with outgoing personalities, self-motivated, flexible, open minded and self-taught programmer. He has work experience that varies in private sector, public and civil society where he worked with local and international organizations. Origene has received three national awards in ICT projects amongst others and he was privileged to be supported by Ministry of ICT and Innovation, African Innovation Prize, REACH FOR CHANGE, Digital Opportunity Trust Rwanda, Klab, Rwanda ICT Chamber, 250 Startups and others. His passion to use his ICT skills in uplifting education sector was inspired by challenges related to lack of materials in teaching and learning STEM subjects he faced when he was studying at University and secondary schools.

His company’s platform O’GENIUS PANDA has grown to be not only the leading interactive content development platform for sciences and mathematics subjects but also strong actor in making education exciting. Between 2018 and 2019, the company has managed to create around 50 job opportunities for young people and currently operating in schools that have close to 8,000 students. O’GENIUS PANDA was recently selected by UN Sustainable Development Solution Network to be among top 25 for profit global most innovative youth solutions.

Clarisse Iribagiza

From an early age, Clarisse had an affinity for technology and loved problem solving. It was during her Computer Engineering degree at the University of Rwanda's College of Science and Technology that the nexus of these two passions would give birth to HeHe, launched out of an MIT-run incubation program she was privileged to be a part of in 2010 at the age of 22. 

Driven by the vision to digitize Africa's supply chains to match demand and supply, HeHe which means where in Kinyarwanda enables businesses to reach their customers more efficiently by offering their products and services on demand. HeHe is now the largest e-commerce business in Rwanda, digitizing over 150 businesses, 60% of which are female-led and serving 2 million consumers while focusing on logistics and the last mile. 

HeHe launched a Research and Innovation lab in 2014 with an award-winning annual Fellowship intended to groom the next generation of problem solvers by exposing them to the realities of emerging technologies and their applications, through hands-on training in relevant technology fields, critical thinking and leadership skills, while inspiring them to be at the forefront of the continent’s development. Close to 500 young people have benefited from this program, 69% being female. 
For her work, Clarisse has won several accolades including Forbes 30 under 30 for 2015 and 2016. She was one of the "20 movers and shakers of Africa" named at the continent CEO Summit in 2012 and the following year Jeannette Kagame, the First Lady of Rwanda recognised her as one of the Imbuto Foundation's "Celebrating Young Rwandan Achievers". In 2017 she was named as one of OkayAfrica's 100 Women. Irabagiza sits on the African Development Bank's Presidential Youth Advisory Group. On 24 September 2019 the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development named her as an "eTrade for Women Advocate."

Xiaodi Jiang

Xiaodi Jiang, was born in China at May 24th, 1996. He graduated from New York university in 2018 with double major in economics and political science. He is currently studying at Cornell university for the master’s degree in public administration. From 2014 to 2016, Xiaodi joined the China foundation and worked closely with UNICEF to promote and protect Chinese adopted orphans’ rights and conditions in U.S. In the summer of 2017, he participated in the “Three-Changes” Land Reform Program in China, which aimed at revolutionizing Chinese peasants’ ownership of land and capital; therefore, improved their living standards and income. In 2018, Xiaodi and other Chinese young leaders established Providence Academy, a nonprofit educational organization and platform, which gathered presidents of CSSA from 150 universities around the world and more than 50 Chinese youth leaders from different fields. In the summer of 2019, he and other three cofounders hold Chinese Overseas Student Conference in Beijing. The conference invited more than 30 guest speakers from different professions and attracted more than 2000 offline audiences plus 200,000 online views. The conference together with the Providence Academy have become the most influential and important platform for young Chinese oversea students to communicate with each other and understand the current trend of different aspects in the world.

Devshi Mehrotra

Devshi Mehrotra is a recent graduate from the University of Chicago with a joint bachelor’s and master’s degree in Computer Science and a current Schwarzman Scholar at the University of Chicago. On campus, she served as Senior Chair of the University of Chicago Institute of Politics, in which capacity she directly advised David Axelrod – former Senior Advisor to President Obama – on issues pertaining to promoting racial and economic inclusivity within the organization. She also served as the Executive Director of compileHer, a computer science education outreach organization which engaged hundreds of young female students in Chicago annually through conferences, workshops, field trips, and hackathons. Devshi was recognized by the Obama Foundation as an active community leader for her contributions to advancing gender and racial equality in STEM education. During her final year as an undergraduate student, she channeled her passion for criminal justice reform to found JusticeText, a public-interest technology company that leverages machine learning to develop video evidence management software for public defenders. Her company is currently pursuing paid pilot studies with offices in Kentucky, Colorado, New York, Illinois, and California. 

Devshi has additionally worked as an artificial intelligence researcher at such institutions as Google Brain, Microsoft Research, DeepMind, Peking University, and Stanford Law. She has accumulated extensive experience applying deep learning algorithms to predict the progression of retinal diseases, train robotic agents, and perform natural language processing on legal corpora. Ultimately, she hopes to utilize her engineering background and passion for public service to develop technology that strengthens the ability of governments to better serve those most marginalized in society. She is currently a Schwarzman Scholar at Tsinghua University and will be leveraging her graduate experience in China to pursue artificial intelligence ethics research with Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence director Yi Zeng.

Jennifer Y Park



Jennifer currently serves as a Program Analyst at Morgan Stanley. In this role, she assists with the execution of the firm’s charitable efforts, which include corporate and foundation giving, employee volunteering, and giving and engagement.

Prior to her current role with Morgan Stanley and the Morgan Stanley Foundation, she worked for The New York City Department of Education as an academic policy manager where she supported the development, communication, and tracking of policies related to K-12 academics. Before moving to New York, Jennifer worked for the Duksung Women’s University and School Foundation, where she facilitated the 2014 United Nations’ 2nd World Congress of Global Partnership for Young Women.

Jennifer currently serves on the Junior Board for Global Kids, an organization which educates, activates and inspires youth from underserved communities to take action on critical issues facing our world. She earned her masters degree in International Educational Development from Columbia University, Teacher’s College and her undergraduate degree in Psychology and Education at Wheaton College (MA).

Christopher Rim

Christopher is the President and CEO of Command Education. He has been recognized by Forbes 30 Under 30, PEOPLE Magazine’s “Heroes Among Us,” Luce’s Young Global Leaders, and President Obama’s Lifetime Achievement Award. He previously worked at Facebook on their education team to help build inspirED in partnership with the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence.
Christopher has served on multiple advisory boards including Lady Gaga’s Born This Way Foundation and on panels such as the Emotion Revolution, HackHarassment by Intel, and the World Internet Conference in Shanghai. He earned his Bachelor’s degree from Yale University, where he studied psychology focusing on emotional intelligence.
Christopher is a Senior Contributor for Forbes and writes about emotionally intelligent leadership and education.

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Asami Takahashi

Asami is a Masa Son Fellow at Schwarzman College, Tsinghua University. She pursued her first Master’s degree in Public Policy at The University of Tokyo, where she was a selected student in Global Leader Program for Social Design and Management. She has diverse experiences in private and public sectors, including American Council on Germany in New York, U.S. Consulate General Osaka-Kobe, and extensive participation in programs such as APEC Voices of the Future, and Japan, China, ROK Trilateral Youth Summit. She received the Presidential Award for Extracurricular Activities and the Human Sciences Award as the top graduate from Osaka University in 2017. She also served as the representative director of UNISC International, an international NGO with United Nations special consultative status. Asami is 24 years old and from Japan.

Alphonse Twagirayezu

Am Alphonse Twagirayezu, an Edutech entrepreneur very passionate about education, since 2012 eShuri has been playing a vital role in contributing to the use of digital solutions in Rwandan education systems through initiatives like easy device acquisition scheme for teachers and students, establishing a cloud repository of academic materials with a market place for contents and courses.

Angel Chang Wei

Angel received her M.A. in Instructional Technology and Media from Columbia University. She has worked in the United Nations, Roland Berger, and Caxton FX, who also possesses proficient language skills in English, Chinese, and German. She appears on a series of television programs in China to discuss youth leadership. Angel has co-authored the book , published in 2018. Her area of interest is in media and education. Angel is currently a TV correspondent based in Washington DC.

Fangzhou Xu

Fangzhou Xu is currently a Schwarzman Scholar and BP Fellow at Tsinghua University. He previously served as China Business Development Advisor at DUBAL Holding LLC (a wholly owned subsidiary of the Investment Corporation of Dubai), originating strategic investment opportunities in the industrials, mining, and energy sectors. He graduated from University College London with a Bachelor's degree in Economics. Fangzhou is 24 years old and from Beijing, China.

Fan Jesse Yang (China Hong Kong SAR) co-founded the Providence Academy as the president in 2018 to cultivate the next generation of leaders from China’s international student community and encourage international students to take their first step in their careers by returning to China. Over 450 presidents of elite overseas institutions’ Chinese international student associations, as well as thought leaders and young entrepreneurs have already matriculated to the Academy. Fan recruited and invited more than 100 advisors and instructors for the Academy and Chinese Overseas Student Conference, including the former Chairman of Sinopec, the former Chairman of China Ever-bright Group, and the former president of China International Capital Cooperation. Fan graduated from Cornell University and Beijing No.4 High School. He is also a TV show debater for CCTV 4 , Shenzhen Television and Phoenix New Media.

Patricia M. Kalkofen

Intl. Marketing Manager - Henkel AG & Co. KGaA, Global HQ Duesseldorf, Germany. Born and raised in Germany, lived in Norway and the UK. B.Sc. in Business Administration, University of Mannheim, Germany. M.Sc. in Intl. Management, Cass Business School, London, UK (with distinction and best in class). Experienced Marketeer with +9 years of experience (specifically in Brand Building, Marketing Strategy and New Product Development) and a global professional network. Social commitment: Involvement in social services, leader of the „RISE Network“ aimed at fostering gender balanced leadership at HENKEL, mentor for young talents at HENKEL, supporting recruitment of young talents, guest speaker at universities, volunteering work at Naankuse wildlife sanctuary in Namibia, supporting the running of a school in Indonesia, mentor for incoming students during own studies. I am truly honoured and excited of having been announced a Young Leader of the FWE‘s Young Leaders Programme and look forward to driving and shaping its future!

XIAO Li

XIAO Li has a great passion for education and strongly believes that education is the path to the future! She currently services as Operation Director of Forum for World Education (FWE), manages the FWE daily work, assists FWE presidents, and supports FWE Steering Committee and Planning Committee on FWE events and activities. She is also appointed as Director of Fazheng Group / Beijing Royal School (BRS) UK Office and focused on Fazheng Group / Beijing Royal School’s Business Development in the UK, including education and medical healthcare industries. In March 2018, Li represented Fazheng Group/BRS and gave a keynote speech and demonstrated BRS’s cutting-edge and leading mobile learning technologies and development at UNESCO Mobile Learning Week in Paris. In 2019, Li successfully led a group of BRS students to attend Ferney Model United Nations held at WIPO as the only student group from China and assisted BRS students to present at Geneva Trialogue - Scaling Education for the SDCs in Geneva.

After graduation, XIAO Li joined a city boutique corporate finance firm in London, which is practicing as a Nominated Advisor consulting on IPO/SPO at AIM market for smaller and growing companies from the UK and overseas. She assisted Qualified Executives advising the Chinese clients and coordinating with Compliance Officer. She also accompanied Chief Executive for clients’ site-visiting in China as part of the requirement from AIM listing rules. Later, Li joined a UK registered charity Mothers’ Bridge of Love (MBL) as Head Office Management Executive. Li was accountable to the Board of MBL Trustees, communicated and supervised MBL Team Leaders, and maintained and explored relationship with current and potential members, donors and sponsors. XIAO Li graduated with a LL.B. (Bachelor of Laws) in Economic Law at ZhongNan University of Economics & Law in China and became the first female President of Law School Student Union. She received her LL.M. (Master of Laws) at SOAS, University of London in the UK. Li enjoys playing volleyball and the flute and she is a regular blood donor and charity volunteer.