speaker-photo

Adnan Ahmed Qureshi

Vice President, Teach the World Foundation
Adnan Ahmed Qureshi is a Pakistani educational technology changemaker with a Master’s degree in Mind, Brain and Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a Bachelors from LUMS. He is a founding member/Vice-President at Teach the World Foundation, a non-profit with a mission to deploy effective and scalable models of literacy in the developing world, using digital technologies, currently impacting 14,000 out-of-school children in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Malawi. Previously, he has served in leadership roles at organizations such as SABAQ, Teach for Pakistan and The Citizens Archive of Pakistan. Adnan’s work at TTWF was recognized by the World Bank as one of the seven winners of the global Ideas4Action 2020 challenge, more recently as winner of the MIT Solve/Jacobs Foundation LEAPS 2023 challenge, and as a finalist for the MIT Solve 2021 Global Learning challenge. During COVID- 19, it was also recognized as one of the most innovative response programs in a joint 2021 UNESCO/Harvard publication. Furthermore, he is a recipient of the Fulbright Scholarship in 2014-15. He also teaches the Cambridge International Project Qualification research course to A-Level students at the Karachi Grammar School.
10:40 - 11:30 AM Panel Discussion

Sunday 22 Sep

Addressing Pakistan’s Learning Crisis: The Potential of EdTech and Adaptive Learning Technologies