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Our high-quality speakers are essential to ensuring our events engage audiences and provide relevant, up-to-date and innovative content for our delegates.

Ilesanmi Adesida

Provost

Nazarbayev University

Bahodir Ahmedov

Vice-rector for academic affairs

New Uzbekistan University

Ebrahim Al Hajri

President

Khalifa University

Rita Almeida

Manager, Education Global Practice, Europe and Central Asia

World Bank

Jane Baker

Vice-president for business development

Pearson (UK)

Hande Baltaci

Director of international partnerships

Constructor University

Manuel Barcia

Dean for Global Engagement

University of Leeds

Phil Baty

Chief global affairs officer

THE

Charles Clarke

Former UK home secretary

UK Parliament

Charlotte Coles

Director of partnerships and engagement for events

THE

Michael Connolly

Director of English programmes

British Council

Norbert Csizmadia

President of the board of trustees

John von Neumann University

David Finegold

President and founder

National Transfer Network

Eric Grimson

Chancellor for academic advancement

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Wolfgang Herrmann

Honorary president

New Uzbekistan University

Frederike Hettinger

Managing director

TUM International

Ameer Ibrahim

Climate investments advisor

Hamershlag Private

Lachyn Italmazova

Regional commercial director (UK and Europe)

THE

Aliya Kaimoldinova

Head of global relations office

Nazarbayev University

Bekhzod Khoshimov

Assistant professor

New York University Abu Dhabi

Levente Kovács

Rector

Obuda University

Eleanor Kramers

Managing director

Montfort Eurasia

Vijay Kumar

Senior adviser to vice-president

MIT Open Learning

Kanokpan Lao-Araya

Country director for Uzbekistan

Asian Development Bank

Dumitru Lipcanu

Deputy representative for Central Asia

UN High Commissioner for Refugees

Giorgi Mariamidze

Founder and CEO

Skillwill NEO-University

Bhavit Mehta

Senior content manager

THE

Timothy O'Connor

President

American University of Central Asia

Khayrulla Pulatov

Vice-rector of science and innovations

Tashkent Institute of Chemical Technology

Alan Ruby

Senior fellow, Alliance for Higher Education and Democracy

University of Pennsylvania

Anjali Sastry

Associate dean for open learning

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Daniel Shek

Associate vice-president (undergraduate programme)

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Peng Yim Siew

Chief executive officer

Times Publishing Ltd

Klara Spustek

Junior Impact Rankings product owner

THE

Yerkin Tatishev

Chairman

Almaty Management University

Bermet Tursunkulova

Director of development

American University of Central Asia

Hilola Umarova

Minister of Preschool and School Education

Government of Uzbekistan

Denise Waddingham

Country director

British Council, Uzbekistan

Bakhtiyor Yuldashev

Vice-rector for innovation and research

New Uzbekistan University

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