Speakers

Ziauddin Yousafzai

Education Activist & Co-founder, the Malala Fund

Ziauddin Yousafzai is an educator, human rights campaigner and social activist. He hails from Pakistan's Swat Valley where, at great personal risk among grave political violence, he peacefully resisted the Taliban's efforts to shut down schools and kept his own school open. He also inspired his daughter, Malala Yousafzai, to raise her voice to promote the rights of children to an education. Ziauddin is the co-founder and serves as the Chairman of the Board for the Malala Fund.

He also serves as the United Nations Special Advisor on Global Education and also the educational attaché to the Pakistani Consulate in Birmingham, UK.

Margaret Mulholland

SEND and Inclusion Specialist

After several years as ASCL Council’s representative on SEND, Margaret joined ASCL’s policy team as SEND and Inclusion Specialist in September 2019.

She is also Project Director for Whole School SEND and Nasen leading an Education Endowment Foundation trial to evaluate the impact of the SEND Review Framework.
A leading advocate for the role SEND settings play in improving understanding of inclusive teaching and learning, Margaret brings over 20 years experience in ITT innovation and practice. She spent seven years as Director of Development and Research at a leading special school and thirteen years at the Institute of Education, where she was responsible for innovative employment-based routes to QTS, PGCE secondary partnerships.
Margaret sits on the Universities’ Council for the Education of Teachers, is an advisor to the UK Government on ITT curriculum development and works with local authorities as an external advisor for NQTs, ITT and leadership development. She also writes a column on research and inclusivity for the Times Educational Supplement.

Twitter @MargaretMulhol2

Chi Sum TSE

Specialist in Education Policy Evaluation, PISA for Schools Team, OECD

Chi Sum works for the PISA for Schools team at the OECD in Paris. PISA is a world-class metrics to measure education systems' performance and efficiency. Chi Sum provides education policymakers with evidence-based policy recommendations on performance improvement at school and national levels. Up to date, Chi Sum has worked with several ministries of education and more than 5000 schools across the world.

Over the past five years, he worked in Peru, Argentina, Brazil, and Germany. During his time in Latin America, he worked with Un Techo Para Mi Pais, one of the largest Civil Society Organizations in social development in the region. He participated in a large-scale project with UNICEF Argentina and produced a publication on the lives of young people in informal settlements in the city of Buenos Aires.

Chi Sum read an MSc in Educational Assessment at the University of Oxford. Previously, he was an Alexandre Yersin scholarship recipient at Sciences Po Paris (Institut d'études politiques de Paris) where he completed an MA in International Development. He has also pursued Master-level courses on Mercosur at the University of Buenos Aires. He graduated with a BA in English Studies at the City University of Hong Kong.