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Bright Start Foundation’s International Advisory Council

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Sarah Aiono

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

Fiona Boylan

Associate Dean Early Childhood | Researcher, Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia 

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Liz Bullough

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

London, United Kingdom

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Christine Callender

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

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Mutlu Cukurova

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

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Susan Edwards

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

Michelle Furnell

International Education Consultant, 

Diverse Minds, Dynamic Strengths,

France

Nahla Gahwaji

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

Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

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

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

Brisbane, Australia

Jacqueline Harding

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

United Kingdom

Sahbi Hidri

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

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Susan Holmes

Executive Head, 

Nehru World School and Healthy Planet Schools, 

Uttar Pradesh, 

India

Suhasini Kanwar

Co-Founder, 

Healthy Planet Early Years School, Delhi, India 

Slim Khemakhem

Senior member of the Executive Dean’s Office, Education Division, Assistant Professor,

Higher Colleges of Technology, 

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Gina Koutsika

Director, Audiences & Content, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, United Kingdom 

Andréa Lopes

Principal, 

Our Lady of Mercy Preschool, 

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Jennifer Oxman Ryan

Senior Research Manager,      Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, United States

Gideon Sappor

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

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

Magen David Academy, 

Panama 

James Searjeant

Education Leader and Founder, Be Brave in Education campaign, London, United Kingdom 

Salma Seedat

Executive Director, 

Innovation Edge, Cape Town, 

South Africa  

Karla Shepard Rubinger

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

Tara Solomon

Chief Executive,

Kaitiaki Kindergartens,

Kindergarten Association, 

New Zealand

Maryanne Ullery

Director of Strategy, Research and Evaluation, Miami Children's Museum, United States

Priti Verma

Executive Dean, Higher Colleges of Technology, 

Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

Natalie Williams

Senior Director of Education, Exhibits and Playful Learning,
Miami Children’s Museum, United States


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