THE
JURY

The jurors

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    Barry van Driel

    President of the International Association for Intercultural Education (IAIE)

    Barry van Driel is the President of the International Association for Intercultural Education (IAIE) and since 2000 has been the Editor-in-Chief of the international academic journal Intercultural Education. As a consultant for the European Commission, Mr. van Driel has authored several thematic papers on issues related to equality. He also co-coordinates the education work of the War Childhood Museum in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina and is a Board member of the SIRIUS Policy Network on Migrant Education. For 27 years he was responsible for international teacher education at Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, Kingdom of the Netherlands.

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    Betilde Muñoz-Pogossian

    Director of the Department of Social Inclusion of the Secretariat for Access to Rights and Equity, the Organization of American States

    Dr. Betilde Muñoz-Pogossian, a Venezuelan-American, is the Director of the Department of Social Inclusion of the Secretariat for Access to Rights and Equity at the Organization of American States (OAS). She was granted the Outstanding Performance Award by the OAS Secretary General in 2008, 2016, 2019 and 2020 in recognition of her extraordinary work and contributions to the organization. Dr. Muñoz-Pogossian is a founding member and coordinator of the Network of Latin American Female Political Scientists, known as “#NoSinMujeres”, that seeks to promote, make visible and empower the work of women dedicated to Latin American Political Science. She has edited, published and co-authored several articles on Latin American issues and is a regular columnist for El Nacional and Caracas Chronicles. She is a 2021 Fellow of the Fisher Family Fellowship on Democracy, Development and Rule of Law at Stanford University and a Senior Associate (non-resident) at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC. Dr. Muñoz-Pogossian has a Master's degree in International Relations from the University of South Florida and a PhD in Political Science from Florida International University.

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    Dr. Iman Bibars

    Founder and Regional Director, Ashoka Arab World

    A visionary for social entrepreneurship and a pioneer of women-led and gender-focused development initiatives for over 30 years, Iman Bibars is the Vice President of Ashoka: Innovators for the Public and the Founder and Regional Director of Ashoka Arab World. Dr. Bibars is also the Co-founder and current Chairperson of Egypt’s very first microfinance organization, the Association for the Development and Enhancement of Women (ADEW): a citizen sector organization that provides credit and legal aid for impoverished female heads of household. She is currently leading Ashoka in launching its revolutionary Women’s Initiative for Social Entrepreneurship (WISE) - a movement aiming to redefine success and elevate women social innovators around the world. Dr. Bibars holds a PhD in Development Studies from Sussex University and a BA and MA in Political Science from the American University in Cairo.

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    Bushra Razack

    Community Development Specialist and Social Impact Leader

    Bushra Razack is a community development specialist and the outgoing CEO of Philippi Village, an integrated innovation and development hub in Cape Town, South Africa dedicated to empowering under-resourced communities through entrepreneurship, skills development, and social innovation. Her human-centred approach to design ensures that solutions are both impactful and inclusive, reflecting her commitment to aligning social innovation with meaningful and sustainable community impact. She has been recognized as one of the Mail & Guardian’s Mzansi Top 100 Young South African Leaders. She received the Power Woman of the Year Award in Innovation (2018), the Forty Under 40 Award in the Community Development category (2023), and in 2024 was honoured as the Best Leader in Social Enterprise in Africa. She was also selected as one of 50 global leaders in the Estée Lauder Vital Voices Visionary Program and is an African Leadership Initiative Fellow.

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    Yik Wai Chee

    Social Entrepreneur, Author and Co-founder of Crowdsukan

    Yik Wai CHee is an award-winning Malaysian intercultural specialist, a serial social entrepreneur who co-founded Crowdsukan focusing on sport for good and a UNESCO Youth and Sport Task Force Malaysian Representative. He is currently the co-founder of Grafilab, a Malaysia-based AI compute power startup providing developing countries affordable and flexible AI compute power to ethically innovate with AI to improve humanity. In addition, he is one of Asia’s youngest columnists often providing Southeast Asian youth perspectives on intercultural understanding in geopolitics, tech and sustainability advocating for more cross-cultural learning between Asia and the world primarily on the South China Morning Post and Al Jazeera. He is currently the Malaysian Country Coordinator of the Cross Culture Programme Fellowship funded by the German Federal Foreign Ministry to support exchanges between Malaysian and German high potential youth leaders. Some of the professional awards he received includes 1st Prize Winner for China Global Television Network (CGTN) Belt and Road Essay Contest with his entry of 'My Sports Journey To Connect The Dots Of The Belt and Road' and also became the first Malaysian to receive a Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition by the former United States House of Representative member from California, Susan Davis.