Esther Mbau is the Psychosocial Support and Social-Emotional Learning (PSS-SEL) Coordinator at the Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE), leading global and regional efforts on teacher well being, SEL, and contextualized PSS-SEL resources across crisis settings. She brings extensive experience in EiE,localization, and MH PSS programming across humanitarian-development-peace contexts.

Anna Tazita Samuel is the Founder and Executive Director of Women for Change, a South Sudanese women-led organisation dedicated to empowering women and girls through education, advocacy, and economic empowerment initiatives. She possesses over 10 years of experience in humanitarian and development work and focuses particularly on genderequality and community-led solutions in fragile contexts within South Sudan.

Francesca Pinna is seconded to Education Cannot Wait by the Government of France, where she leads the Education in Emergencies and Protracted Crises (EiEPC) Financing Observatory, strengthening the visibility and coherence of education financing across humanitarian and development systems. She brings over 15 years of humanitarian experience, including more than a decade focused on education in crisis contexts such as Haiti, Madagascar, and Palestine. Working at the intersection of humanitarian and development actors, she advances evidence-led, locally informed approaches that bridge emergency response and long-term system strengthening to ensure sustained access to safe, quality education in protracted crises.

Loise Gichuhi is an expert in education in emergencies,applying evidence driven approaches to strengthen education systems for displaced and vulnerable populations. Her work integrates humanitarian action, development planning, and peace building to foster inclusive and resilient learning environments.

Adama Diallo is a Child Protection and Education in Emergencies Coordination Specialist with the Global Education Cluster. He has over a decade of experience supporting humanitarian and protracted crisis responses across West and Central Africa, North America and Europe, working with the UN and international NGOs. His work focuses on inter-sectoral collaboration and strengthening coordination in crisis contexts. He provides technical support to national Education Clusters to enhance coordination and help link humanitarian response with longer-term system resilience.

Olya Homonchuk is a Research Fellow at ODI Global Development and Public Finance Programme with expertise in poverty and inequality,education, and financing in protracted conflict settings. Asa Policy Lead for the ERICC consortium, she is currently researching education and the politics of donor coordination in Syria, South Sudan, Nigeria, Lebanon, Jordan, and Bangladesh. She also co-leads the Youth and Capabilities Development Domain for the African Cities Research Consortium, where she examines young people's experiences as both victims and perpetrators of violence. Prior to joining ODI,Olya managed mixed-methods policy evaluations on behalf of the UK government agencies (DWP and DCMS) as part of Ipsos Social Research Institute. Evaluations focused on programmes for vulnerable and disadvantaged youth,including vocational skills training,education, and support through the food banks.

Egide Niyonkuru is a Burundian Asylum Seeker living in Geneva, Switzerland. He is pursuing his master’s degree in Responsible Management at the University of Geneva. He has been an active Youth Representative for EiE context for the past 7 years where he collaborated with organisations such as NORRAG, UNHCR, Red Cross, Geneva Global Hub for EiE, etc.

Dr. Faiza Hassan is the Director of the Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE), since January 2025. She brings 20 years of experience across education, social policy reform, and humanitarian response. She began her career in the extractive industries after completing a PhD in Chemical Engineering at the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom, before pivoting to the education sector. She first volunteered with the Ministry of Education in Somalia and has since worked extensively across East Africa with UNICEF, CARE, and Save the Children. Before joining INEE, Faiza was Chief of Party in Save the Children’s Global Education and Child Protection Department, where she led large-scale programmes advancing children’s right to education and protection. Her work has centred on education systems strengthening, governance, and financing, with a particular focus on advancing equitable and sustainable education in crisis-affected contexts.

Moira V Faul is the Executive Director of NORRAG, and Senior Lecturer at the Geneva Graduate Institute. Prior to this post, she was Deputy Director of the Public-Private Partnership Centre at the University of Geneva, as well as holding a Visiting Research Fellowship at the UN Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD). She successfully led a UK Research Councils-funded programme on knowledge exchange between research and policy at the University of Cambridge. She holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge and a teaching qualification from the University of Oxford.

Alison Joyner is a highly experienced in teacher, trainer, manager and researcher, including 12 years living and working in Africa and Asia. Specialised in supporting teachers to facilitate holistic learning approaches, she has particular expertise in Education in Emergencies integrated with Child Protection. Alison is skilled in robust data collection and use from school-level upwards, ensuring the connections between monitoring, evaluation, research and learning. Her doctoral research (EdD, 2021, University College London Institute of Education) was conducted with teachers in a rural primary school in Kenya, focusing on the interaction between social and emotional skills and academic learning. Alison is fluent in French, English and Spanish.