Speakers
Nanaia Mahuta
Nanaia Cybele Mahuta is a New Zealand former politician who served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of New Zealand from 2020 to 2023. A member of the New Zealand Labour Party, Mahuta served as an MP for 27 years, holding for some time the portfolio for youth development, among others.
She is known for her values-based approach to leadership, including manaakitanga (looking after people), collaboration, bkaitiakitanga (guardianship of the environment) and relationship-building.
Ingrid Gogolin
Dr Ingrid Gogolin is Senior Professor for International Comparative and Intercultural Education Research at University of Hamburg, Germany. Her research is focused on the problem of educational equity in diversity contexts. In an asset-based perspective, she particularly works on the question of how potential disadvantages of migration-related socio-economic, cultural and language diversity can be counterbalanced and how the advantages of diversity can be utilized for the learning of all. She is a founding member of the Research Center “Literacy in Diversity Settings (LiDS)” @ University of Hamburg.
Ingrid was awarded honorary doctor degrees by the University of Dortmund/ Germany in 2013 and the National Kapodistrian University of Athens/ Greece in 2017.
Verónica Boix-Mansilla
Veronica Boix Mansilla, EdD, is a senior principal investigator at Project Zero, the renowned educational research institute at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and an international expert on global and intercultural education.
Her research examines conditions that enable individuals to understand and take action on the most pressing issues of our times (migration, sustainability, climate change) through personal transformation and quality disciplinary and interdisciplinary work.
Her research portfolio focuses on quality interdisciplinary education and assessment; the development of global and intercultural competence Pre-K-12, and the healthy integration of immigrant-origin children and their peers in today’s migration societies with particular attention to multilingual settings. In each case, she works closely with educators in schools, museums, policy circles to advance conceptual frameworks and tools able to shift educational mindsets and practices.
Verónica co-led the development of the OECD PISA Global Competence International Assessment framework, the AFS framework for Active Global Citizenship, as well as key global and intercultural frameworks at Harvard Project Zero, Asia Society, Council of Chief State School Officers. She works nationally and internationally with institutions such as the OECD, UNESCO, the International Baccalaureate, National Geographic, the Smithsonian Institution.
Originally from Argentina, she brings cultural sensitivity to her work in schools, cultural institutions, youth centers, think tanks, museums, and policy circles.
