Jane-Frances Obiageli Agbu is a Professor of Clinical Psychology. She is from Onitsha, a small commercial town in South-Eastern Nigeria. She was born as the 8th child in a family of 10 children. She noted that growing up was challenging but with resilience and optimistic attitude, she was able to

Karen Benita Bautista was born in Belize, Central America on May 30th 1973. She attended Belmopan Primary School, Belmopan Comprehensive High School, Saint John’s College Junior College and the University College of Belize from where she graduated with a Bachelors in Biology Education. Ms Karen has over 25 years teaching

Dr Chan is the Chief Executive and Vice Chancellor of Wawasan Open University (WOU) in Penang. She is passionate about developing an education framework for those who have missed the opportunity for tertiary education, as well as continuing education for working professionals to meet the needs of industry in an

Frances Ferreira joined the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) as Education Specialist, Basic Education and Open Schooling in January 2007, and in 2016 she was appointed as the Senior Adviser, Women and Girls. Some of her most significant achievements at COL has been her leadership of the multi-country OER4OS initiative and

Dr. Jummai Garba currently works as counseling psychologist and lecturer in the Psychology department of Nigerian Defence Academy, Kaduna Nigeria. She has a Masters and Doctorate degrees in educational psychology a professional teacher and teacher educator for 35 years. She worked with National Teachers’ Institute, Nigeria as programme designer and

Professor Gourley is the former Vice Chancellor and President of The Open University in the United Kingdom. She occupied that post for nearly eight years (until 2009) and for the nine years before that she held the same post at the University of KwaZulu- Natal in South Africa. For the

Professor Bridget Hogg is a veteran Bahamian educator. She loves being in the education field, working amongst her colleagues to serve the students and , through them, do her part in contributing to the building of the Bahamian nation. She started post secondary education with an International Baccalaureate, at the

Professor Datuk Dr. Asma Ismail is a woman of many firsts, having been the first woman to be appointed Vice Chancelor of Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia in 2012, and the first female Vice Chancelor of Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) in 2016. In 2014-2016, she served as the country’s first female