Collaboration for Scaling Global Education

April 25th, 2016

Featured speakers

Vasundhara Raje

Julia Gillard

Shiv Vikram Khemka

Rebecca Winthrop

Tricia Bromley

Yuri Afanasiev

Monday, April 25, 2016
5:30 pm – 7:00 pm

Cubberley Hall, Stanford Campus
485 Lasuen Mall, Stanford, CA

Event Overview

Few things are more urgent to the promotion of global justice than improving education. More than 250 million children around the world are functionally illiterate and cannot do basic math. The Brookings Institution estimates that it will take 100 years for children’s average learning in developing countries to catch up to their developed country peers – unless we make drastic changes. Join a conversation of practitioners and scholars to discuss the main challenges involved in improving education worldwide and to consider innovative solutions, including the promise of technology to promote the sharing of best practices from around the world.

Keynote Speakers:

Julia Gillard, Board Chair of the Global Partnership for Education and Former Prime Minister of Australia 

Vasundhara Raje, Chief Minister of Rajasthan, India

Panelists:

Yuri Afanasiev, United Nations Resident Coordianator, India

Julia Gillard, Board Chair of the Global Partnership for Education, Former Prime Minister of Australia, and Distinguished Fellow at the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution

Shiv Vikram Khemka, Vice Chairman of the SUN Group and Chair of the Global Education and Leadership Foundation

Vasundhara Raje, Chief Minister of Rajasthan, India

Rebecca Winthrop, Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution

Moderated by:

Patricia Bromley, Scholar in International and Comparative Education and Assistant Professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Education

Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society

The Brookings Institution

The Global Education & Leadership Foundation