Prof. Dr. Harm Kuper (Dean at the Department of Educational Science and Psychology, Free University Berlin)

Prof. Dr. Harm Kuper studied Educational Science, Sociology and Psychology at Free University Berlin from 1990 to 1994 and was Research Assistant in Empirical Education there from 1994 to 1999. He got his PhD in 1999 writing about “Further education in the social system company” and achieved his postdoctoral lecture qualification writing about “Organizational concepts for Evaluation in Educational Science”. From 2004 to 2006 he was a Professor for Educational Organization and Educational Management at Universität Wuppertal where he also co-founded the Institute for Educational Research. He is Professor for Continuing Education and Educational Management at Free University Berlin and is the Dean at the Department of Educational Science and Psychology at Free University Berlin since 2011.

Xie Yi (Founder of Yiswind Cultural and Educational Organization)

Xie Yi is the founder of Yiswind Cultural and Educational Organization, the mission of which is to "cultivate global citizens with a Chinese root". Xie Yi graduated from the Teachers College of Columbia University, and currently is the visiting professor at the National School of Development of Peking University. She once worked as the youngest advisor in the East Asia Office of UNICEF and UNESCO. Xie was among the first group of people who went to support education development in poverty stricken areas. She has established two non-profit organizations in Guangxi, China and in New York, US since 1998. She is currently the only representative from Mainland China in the Board of Directors of Greenpeace East Asia.

Michael Kahn-Ackermann（Stiftung Mercator China Special Representative）

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