Bright Start Foundation’s International Advisory Council

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

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

London, United Kingdom

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

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

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

International Education Consultant, 

Diverse Minds, Dynamic Strengths,

France

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

Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Associate Professor in Early Years and Primary Education, Programme Leader for MA Early Years Education, IOE, University College London, United Kingdom

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

Brisbane, Australia

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

United Kingdom

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

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Executive Head, 

Nehru World School and Healthy Planet Schools, 

Uttar Pradesh, 

India

Co-Founder, 

Healthy Planet Early Years School, Delhi, India 

Associate Dean of Academic Operations, Abu Dhabi Campuses, 

Higher Colleges of Technology, 

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Deputy Headteacher (3-18) & Systems Architect, Former President of the International Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development  Japan (JASCD), Tokyo, Japan

Principal, 

Our Lady of Mercy Preschool, 

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Professor, Director of the Physical Cognition Lab, Centre for Educational Neuroscience, 

Birkbeck, University of London, United Kingdom

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

Associate Professor, leader on the Education Doctorate (EdD) programme & on the Primary PGCE programme, UCL Institute of Education - Learning & Leadership, United Kingdom 

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

Magen David Academy, 

Panama 

Executive Director, 

Innovation Edge, Cape Town, 

South Africa  

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

Chief Executive,

Kaitiaki Kindergartens,

Kindergarten Association, 

New Zealand

Executive Dean, Higher Colleges of Technology, 

Sharjah, 

United Arab Emirates