
Dr Charles CHEN Yidan
Founder, the Yidan Prize
Dr Charles CHEN Yidan established the Yidan Prize in 2016 with a mission to make the world a better place through education.
Dr CHEN is being touted as China’s Internet philanthropy pioneer. He co-founded Chinese Internet giant Tencent in 1998. In 2007, he launched the Chinese Internet industry' s first charity foundation with his partners - the Tencent Charity Foundation - of which he remains honorary chairman.
Apart from his charity work with the Tencent network, Dr CHEN undertakes other education philanthropy. Since 2009, he has been supporting the Wuhan College, a private non-profit university in China.
OUR SPEAKERS

The Rt Hon Gordon BROWN
UN Special Envoy for Global Education; Former Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer

Mrs Graça MACHEL
Child Rights Advocate and Humanitarian

Professor Anant AGARWAL
Yidan Prize for Education Development Laureate 2018; Founder and CEO, edX

Mr Tom BLACKWELL
CEO & Co-founder of EM

Mr Ronnie C. CHAN
Chairman, Hang Lung Properties Limited

Mr CHI Yufeng
Founder and Chairman of Hongen Education and Technology Co., Founder and Chairman of Perfect World Group

Mr Simon COX
Emerging Markets Editor at The Economist

Dr Jacob (Yaki) DAYAN
Founder & CEO, EdTech Israel

Ms Yaneth GIHA
Former Minister of Education, Colombia

Mr Alvin GRAYLIN
China President, HTC

Professor Larry HEDGES
Yidan Prize for Education Research Laureate 2018; Chair of the Department of Statistics, Northwestern University

Dr Julian HUPPERT
Director, Intellectual Forum, Jesus College, Cambridge

Mr Clive LEE
Chief Executive Officer, Yidan Prize Foundation

Mr Peter LEWIS
Presenter of "Money Talk", RTHK Radio 3

Dr Dennis LITTKY
Co-founder and Co-director, Big Picture Company, The Met School and College Unbound

Professor Sugata MITRA
Professor, Educational Technology; Pioneer, "Hole in the Wall" experiment

Dr NG Pak Tee
Author, Learning from Singapore: The Power of Paradoxes; Member, the Global Education Innovation (GEI) Lab

Minister Naledi PANDOR
South Africa's Minister of Higher Education & Training

Dr Cathy SEELEY
Educator, popular speaker and author; Expert on "Constructive Struggling"

Dr Stephen D SMITH
Finci-Viterbi Endowed Executive Director of the USC Shoah Foundation

Ms Isabella STEGER
Senior Reporter at Quartz

Mr Gareth STOCKDALE
CEO, Micro:bit Educational Foundation

Mr Ruben VARDANYAN
Impact investor and social entrepreneur

Mr Terry VIRTS
NASA Astronaut and Author of View From Above
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Ms Rana WEHBE
Senior Editor-Special Projects Forbes Asia

Mr David WESTON
Chief Executive, Teacher Development Trust; Expert on "Lesson Study"

Ms Margaret McCABE
CEO and Founder of Debate Mate

Mr Arnold CHAN
Founder and CEO of non-profit Teach4HK

Ms Peggy CHOI
Founder and CEO of knowledge-sharing platform Lynk

Mr Lavine HEMLANI
Co-founder and CEO of ed-tech company Xcelerate

Mr Lee WILLIAMSON
Editor, Generation T Asia