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International Advisory Council

Sarah Aiono

Christine Callender

Liz Bullough

Play Pedagogy | Chief Executive Officer, Longworth Education, New Zealand

Liz Bullough

Christine Callender

Liz Bullough

Lecturer, NPQ Early Years Leadership Programme, UCL Centre for Educational Leadership, 

London, United Kingdom 

Christine Callender

Christine Callender

Christine Callender

Professor of Educational Equity and Social Justice, UCL Institute of Education - Learning & Leadership, 

London, United Kingdom

Mutlu Cukurova

Michelle Furnell

Christine Callender

Professor of Learning and Artificial Intelligence, University College London, United Kingdom 

Susan Edwards

Michelle Furnell

Michelle Furnell

Professor of Early Childhood Education & Director of Early Childhood Futures, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, Australia

Michelle Furnell

Michelle Furnell

Michelle Furnell

International Education Consultant, 

Diverse Minds, Dynamic Strengths,

France

Nahla Gahwaji

Deborah Harcourt

Eirini Gkouskou

Professor, Early Childhood Department; Dean, Faculty of Human Sciences and Designs, King Abdulaziz University (KAU), 

Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Eirini Gkouskou

Deborah Harcourt

Eirini Gkouskou

 Associate Professor in Early Years and Primary Education, Programme Leader for MA Early Years Education, IOE, University College London, United Kingdom

Deborah Harcourt

Deborah Harcourt

Jacqueline Harding

Professor and Chair of the Australian Early Childhood Education Institute, Curriculum Consultant and Thought Leader, Asia Pacific Early Childhood Consultants, 

Brisbane, Australia

Jacqueline Harding

Jacqueline Harding

Jacqueline Harding

International child development and education expert, Author, Director Tomorrow’s Child, Parentchannel.tv,   

United Kingdom

Sahbi Hidri

Jacqueline Harding

Susan Holmes

Division Chair and Assistant Professor, Early Childhood Education Program, Higher Colleges of Technology, 

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Susan Holmes

Jacqueline Harding

Susan Holmes

Executive Head, 

Nehru World School and Healthy Planet Schools, Uttar Pradesh, 

India

Suhasini Kanwar

Suhasini Kanwar

Suhasini Kanwar

Co-Founder, 

Healthy Planet Early Years School, Delhi, India 

Slim Khemakhem

Suhasini Kanwar

Suhasini Kanwar

Associate Dean of Academic Operations, Abu Dhabi Campuses, 

Higher Colleges of Technology, 

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Douglas Lee

Suhasini Kanwar

Douglas Lee

 Deputy Headteacher (3-18) & Systems Architect, Former President of the International Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development  Japan (JASCD), Tokyo, Japan

Andréa Lopes

Jennifer Oxman Ryan

Douglas Lee

Principal, 

Our Lady of Mercy Preschool, 

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Ori Ossmy

Jennifer Oxman Ryan

Jennifer Oxman Ryan

Professor, Director of the Physical Cognition Lab, Centre for Educational Neuroscience, 

Birkbeck, University of London, United Kingdom

Jennifer Oxman Ryan

Jennifer Oxman Ryan

Jennifer Oxman Ryan

Senior Research Manager,      

Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of Education, 

Cambridge, United States

Gideon Sappor

Raymond J. Schmidt

Raymond J. Schmidt

Associate Professor, leader on the Education Doctorate (EdD) programme & on the Primary PGCE programme, UCL Institute of Education - Learning & Leadership, United Kingdom 

Raymond J. Schmidt

Raymond J. Schmidt

Raymond J. Schmidt

International Educational leader, Author, Researcher, Head of School,

Magen David Academy, 

Panama 

Salma Seedat

Raymond J. Schmidt

Karla Shepard Rubinger

Executive Director, 

Innovation Edge, Cape Town, 

South Africa  

Karla Shepard Rubinger

Karla Shepard Rubinger

Karla Shepard Rubinger

Founding Partner, Rubinger Associates; Former Vice President, Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., New York, United States

Tara Solomon

Karla Shepard Rubinger

Tara Solomon

Chief Executive,

Kaitiaki Kindergartens,

Kindergarten Association, 

New Zealand

Priti Verma

Karla Shepard Rubinger

Tara Solomon

Executive Dean, 

Higher Colleges of Technology, 

Sharjah, 

United Arab Emirates

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