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Distinguished University Professor and Dr. Haykin Distinguished Professor of Engineering at McMaster University; Member of the Order of Canada; Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada; Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences; Vice-President of The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) for developed countries in the North (2023–2026); former President of the Academy of Science of the Royal Society of Canada (2015–2017).

Professor at OISE, University of Toronto; former President and Honorary Fellow of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES); President Emerita of The Education University of Hong Kong; former First Secretary for Education, Science and Culture at the Canadian Embassy in China.

UNESCO Chair in Reorienting Education towards Sustainability; Professor at York University; Co-Director of the Asia-Pacific Institute of Education for Sustainable Development in Beijing.

Professor and doctoral supervisor at Beijing Normal University; UNESCO Chair on Artificial Intelligence in Education; Co-Dean of the Smart Learning Institute of Beijing Normal University; Director of the National Engineering Research Center of Cyberlearning and Intelligent Technology.

Co-Chair of the UNESCO Chair in Reorienting Education towards Sustainability at York University.

Professor at the Ted Rogers School of Management, Toronto Metropolitan University; Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Small Business & Entrepreneurship.

Secretary-General of the Asia Education Beijing Forum. Long engaged in international educational exchange and cooperation, she has been involved in the Forum’s establishment and overall operations since 2002. She has led the delivery of 20 annual Asia Education Forums and more than 100 international educational and cultural exchange events, maintaining extensive cooperation with governments, embassies and consulates, international organisations and educational institutions in China and abroad.

Paul Pu is a Senior Research Scientist at ENCORE Lab, OISE, University of Toronto, and co-author of AI Era: Redefining Teaching and Learning. He serves as Director of The Erindale Academy and the Erindale Youth AI Innovation Incubator, and as President of Global Youth Challenge. His work connects educational research, school practice, and youth innovation in the AI era.

Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Toronto Metropolitan University. Research focuses on AI applications in education, care-centred pedagogy, computer science education, collaborative learning and knowledge building.

Associate Professor of Higher Education at Peking University and Editor-in-Chief of Higher Education. Research interests include international academic mobility, doctoral career development, and the transnational history of liberal education ideas and practices in China, the United Kingdom and the United States.

Principal’s Chair in Knowledge Technologies and Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), University of Toronto; co-author of AI Era: Redefining Teaching and Learning. Former Canada Research Chair in Education and Technology.

Principal of The Erindale Academy; former Chief Scientist and Deputy Director of the Ontario Science Centre.

Head of the Basic Education Department at Slovenia’s Ministry of Education, Science and Youth, and a member of the Board of Governors of the European Schools. As an IAAIE co-initiator, he brings experience in education policy, school governance and international educational cooperation.

Co-Chair of China Institute; Senior Partner Emeritus at McKinsey & Company; author, speaker and adviser on U.S.–China relations.

Former Director of International Exchange at the University of Toronto.

Former President of East China Normal University and Shanghai Normal University, with extensive experience in educational leadership, international cooperation, and higher education innovation.

Computer vision expert; Fellow of the U.S. National Academy of Inventors (NAI); Fellow of IEEE, the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), and the International Artificial Intelligence Academy of Sciences (AAIS, formerly AAIA).

Professor and doctoral supervisor at Nanjing University; Deputy Dean of its Institute of Education and Tao Xingzhi College of Teacher Education, and Director of its Center for Educational Big Data Research; Associate Editor of Educational Research and Evaluation; Executive Council Member of the Education Economics Branch of the Chinese Society of Education; Vice-Chair of the Education Economics Research Branch of the Jiangsu Association of Higher Education.