Handbook

Co-Chairs
VALERIE HANNON
Valerie Hannon is Co-Founder of Innovation Unit UK and founding member and Co-Chair of the Global Education Leaders’ Partnership (GELP)
supporting education jurisdictions globally to scale innovation and transform their systems. Valerie is senior consultant to the OECD Innovative
Learning Environments program and a regular contributor to the World Summit on Innovation in Education (WISE). A regular keynote speaker
and facilitator at international conferences, Valerie’s publications include Learning A Living: radical innovation in education for work
(Bloomsbury, 2012); Redesigning Education: shaping learning systems around the globe (Booktrope, May 2013). What is Learning For?
(European Journal of Education Vol 50 (2015).
ANTHONY MACKAY
Anthony Mackay is CEO, Centre for Strategic Education, Melbourne; Inaugural Chair, Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership;
Inaugural Deputy Chair, Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority and Deputy Chair of the Australian Council for Educational
Research. He is Co-Chair of the Global Education Leaders’ Partnership and Inaugural Chair of the Innovation Unit Ltd, England; Chair, National
Institute for School Leadership, NCEE, Washington DC and Deputy Chair of the Education Council, New Zealand. Anthony is consultant
advisor to OECD/CERI and the Global Cities Education Network. He is an Honorary Senior Fellow in the Graduate School of Education at The
University of Melbourne and Board Director of Asia Education Foundation, Foundation for Young Australians and Teach for Australia. Anthony
is Deputy Chancellor, Swinburne University, Australia. He is Moderator of the Annual International Summit on the Teaching Profession and
moderates Ministerial Meetings for OECD and debates at the annual World Innovation Summit for Education. Tony was appointed a member of
the Order of Australia (AM) for services to education in 2015.
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