The keynote speakers: short biographies
Prof. Joan Poliner Shapiro, Philadelphia, USA
Joan Poliner Shapiro is Professor of Educational Administration at Temple University’s College of Education in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. Previously, she served as Associate Dean for Research and as Chair of her department at Temple. She also has been Co-Director of Women’s Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, taught in secondary schools in the United States and United Kingdom, and supervised intern teachers. Currently, she is the Vice President of Temple’s Faculty Senate and the Co-Founder of the New DEEL (Democratic Ethical Educational Leadership). She holds a doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania and completed post-doctoral work at the University of London’s Institute of Education. Most recently, she received the Lindback Distinguished Teaching Award and the University Council of Educational Administration’s Master Professor Award. She has co-authored six books and written over 50 journal articles and chapters in edited books. Her work focuses on gender issues and ethical leadership in education.
Prof. Wessel Ganzevoort, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Professor J. Wessel Ganzevoort joined KPMG in 1970 as a management consultant. He studied business administration, economics and social psychology. Since 1982 he served KPMG in various management positions: as chairman of the Dutch practice, as chairman of KPMG’s European consulting activities and as deputy chairman for global consulting. From 1994 to 1996 he was president of the Netherlands Association of Management consultancy Firms (ROA).
From 1996 to 1999 Wessel Ganzevoort was responsible for KPMG Inspire Foundation, an innovation and research center of KPMG. Since 1998 he teaches organization dynamics and innovation at the University of Amsterdam. Since he left KPMG in January 2000 he has been non executive chairman and boardmember of several companies and institutions and is active as a boardroom consultant and coach for topteams and individual executives. His areas of expertise are strategy, leadership and organization development.
Prof. Christer Fuglesang
ESA (formerly stationed at NASA) astronaut Christer Fuglesang is docent and affiliated professor of experimental particle physics at Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan, Stockholm Sweden. He has received special honours as Honorary Doctorate from Umeå University, Sweden; Honorary Doctorate from the University of Nova Gorica, Slovenia; NASA Space Flight Medal; and the H.M. the Swedish King’s Medal.
In 1989, he became a Senior Fellow of CERN, where he worked as head of the particle identification subdetector. In November 1990, Fuglesang obtained a position at the Manne Siegbahn Institute of Physics, Stockholm.
In 1992, Fuglesang was selected to join the European Astronaut Corps, where he completed basic training at the European Astronaut Centre (EAC) the following year. In 1993, he commenced training at GCTC in preparation for their flight engineer tasks, extravehicular activities (spacewalks) and operation of the Soyuz spacecraft. In 1995 he was selected as member of Crew 2 for the Euromir 95 mission, where after in 1996 he underwent specialized training on Soyuz operations for undocking, atmospheric re-entry and landing.
In August 1996 at NASA, Fuglesang entered the Mission Specialist Class at NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC), Houston. He qualified for flight assignment as a Mission Specialist in 1998 and was also awarded the Russian 'Soyuz Return Commander' certificate, which qualifies him to command a three-person Soyuz capsule on its return from space.
Following an assignment from 2002, from December 9-22, 2006, Christer Fuglesang flew as a Mission Specialist on Space Shuttle Discovery on STS-116 to the International Space Station (ISS). Fuglesang participated in his second spaceflight from August 29 to September 12, 2009 as a Mission Specialist on Space Shuttle Discovery on STS-128 to the International Space Station.
A veteran of two spaceflights, Christer Fuglesang has logged over 641 hours in space, including 5 EVAs (spacewalks) totalling 31 hours and 54 minutes.
Prof. Charles Hopkins, Toronto, Canada
Charles Hopkins is currently the UNESCO Chair at York University in Toronto, Canada where he coordinates an international network of teacher education institutions from 55 countries collaboratively working upon the reorientation of elementary and secondary teacher education to address sustainable development. Hopkins is also a United Nations University (UNU) Chair on Education for Sustainable Development, developing Regional Centers of Expertise in (ESD) globally.
Charles, as a former Superintendent with the Toronto Board of Education and as a long time leader in the fields of education and ESD, lectures and meets with education leaders around the world.
