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Sir Michael Barber is a world leading expert on government delivery, education systems, systemic innovation and education reform. In 2001 he established the Prime Minister’s Delivery Unit in No. 10 Downing Street, which drove delivery of domestic policy priorities for the Prime Minister. Since then he has worked with numerous governments around the world to enable them to deliver more effectively. His book on this subject, How to Run a Government, was published by Penguin in 2016.

Over the past two decades his research and advisory work on education has focused on school improvement, standards and performance; system-wide reform; effective implementation; access, success and funding in higher education; and access and quality in schools in developing countries.

Barber joined Pearson as Chief Education Advisor, leading Pearson’s worldwide programme of efficacy and research, playing a particular role in Pearson’s strategy for education in the poorest sectors of the world, particularly in fast-growing developing economies.

Prior to Pearson, he was a Partner at McKinsey & Company and Head of McKinsey’s global education practice. He co-authored two major McKinsey education reports: How the world’s most improved school systems keep getting better (2010) and How the world’s best-performing schools come out on top (2007). He is a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Exeter.

He previously served the UK government as Head of the Prime Minister’s Delivery Unit (from 2001-2005) and as Chief Adviser to the Secretary of State for Education on School Standards (from 1997-2001). Before joining government he was a professor at the Institute of Education at the University of London. He is the author of several books including Instruction to Deliver; The Learning Game: Arguments for an Education Revolution and How to do the Impossible: a Guide for Politicians with a Passion for Education.

Dr. Michael Sinclair is Executive Director of the Harvard Ministerial Leadership Program at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Dr. Sinclair has more than 30 years of expertise in public health system strengthening, health system management, policy and political leadership. Prior to joining the Harvard faculty, Dr. Sinclair was Senior Vice President at the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation for more than 20 years. In that position Dr. Sinclair was responsible for the Foundation’s extensive programming in South Africa working closely with the post-apartheid government to establish an equitable public health system and develop the leadership to build a sustainable democracy. Dr. Sinclair was responsible for national programs in primary health care, childhood malnutrition, adolescent reproductive health, district health management, and HIV/AIDS. Dr. Sinclair also has substantial experience in ministerial leadership development.

Dr. Sinclair’s current work focuses on capacitating political leadership in health, education and finance to achieve critical human development goals for sustainable economic development. The Harvard Ministerial Leadership Program, which Dr. Sinclair leads, engages serving education, health and finance ministers in Africa, Asia and Latin America with the goal of promoting transformational leadership for the coordination of investment in key health and education priorities for economic development. Focusing effective leadership, priority setting, financing and policy implementation, the Harvard Ministerial Program is presented in two phases: an initial ’immersion’ phase at Harvard University followed by an in-country phase extending over 18-24 months including technical support, capacity development and progress monitoring.

Dr. Sinclair has substantial fundraising experience and success, as well as extensive experience working with international and bi-lateral agencies.

An accomplished financial industry executive and institutional investor, Ms. Hensel has held leadership positions across the investment banking/brokerage and asset management industries for more than 35 years. Ms. Hensel is a subject matter expert in financial services and financial institutions. Previously, Ms. Hensel was a managing director, led the Financial Institutions Group and co-chaired the Investment Policy Committee at Lehman Brothers where she also achieved top ranking on Institutional Investor and Greenwich surveys as a commercial bank analyst. Ms. Hensel was managing director and Director of Research at Chancellor Capital Management, an $80 bill. AUM institutional money manager. As an entreprenuer/owner, she rapidly scaled a significant alternative asset management business — Sage Asset Management — $1bill. AUM. Employing a fundamental long/short equity strategy, she and her partner outperformed the S&P 500 while taking less than half the market risk.

Ms. Hensel currently serves as an Executive in Residence at Columbia Business School and on the Investor Advisory Committee of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB). She serves on the advisory boards of a European based technology VC for fintech investments and MIDA Women in Tech Network. She serves as a mentor/advisor to fintech startups at the MIT Enterprise Forum. She is an active member of the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) and the Financial Women’s Association of New York. At Columbia Business School, her academic interests include corporate governance, investment management and capital markets, banking and financial institutions, fintech, leadership and career development.