Speakers
Here are the people who will join us in celebrating the teachers of the world on 5 October. New names are added every day so check this page regularly.

Stefania Giannini
Assistant Director-General for Education, UNESCO

Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
Director-General, World Health Organization

Maria Ressa
Time Magazine Person of the Year, Rappler co-founder and CEO

Alberto Fernández
President, Argentina

Susan Hopgood
President, Education International

Macky Sall
President, Senegal

Jacinda Ardern
Prime Minister, New Zealand

Alice Albright
CEO, Global Partnership for Education

Giriraj Mani Pokharel
Minister of Education, Science and Technology, Nepal

Andria Zafirakou
Teacher, Winner of the Global Teacher Prize 2018

Andreas Schleicher
Director for the Directorate of Education and Skills, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

Diane Ravitch
Research Professor of Education, New York University

Andrew Holness
Prime Minister, Jamaica

Julia Gillard
Board Chair, Global Partnership for Education

Dr. Tsai Ing-wen
President, Taiwan

Thembelani Thulas Nxesi
Minister of Employment and Labour, South Africa

Henrietta Fore
Executive Director, UNICEF

Steffen Handal
President, Union of Education Norway

Amina Mohammed
Deputy Secretary-General, United Nations

Hanan Al Hroub
Teacher, Winner of the Global Teacher Prize 2016

Jelmer Evers
Vice-President, AOB, The Netherlands

Jane Goodall
Primatologist and anthropologist, Jane Goodall Institute

Grace Grace
Minister for Education and Minister for Industrial Relations, Queensland, Australia

Michael Soskil
Teacher and author, Global Teacher Prize Top 10

Erna Solberg
Prime Minister, Norway

Michelle Codrington-Rogers
President, NASUWT The Teachers’ Union

David Sengeh
Minister of Basic and Senior Secondary Education, Sierra Leone

Sharan Burrow
General Secretary, International Trade Union Confederation

Larry Flanagan
General Secretary, The Educational Institute of Scotland

Christian Chevalier
European and International Affairs Secretary, UNSA-Éducation, France

Mary Bousted
Joint Secretary-General, National Education Union, United Kingdom

Guy Ryder
Director General, International Labour Organization

Becky Pringle
President, National Education Association (US)

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
President of Brazil, 2003-2010

Süleyman Gelener
Board Member, Cyprus Turkish Teachers Trade Union

Kailash Satyarthi
Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Global March Against Child Labour, Global Campaign for Education and Children's Foundation

Lawrence Wong
Minister for Education, Singapore

Refaat Sabbah
President, Global Campaign for Education

Nadine A. Molloy
Former President, Jamaica Teachers’ Association

Anja Karliczek
Minister of Education, Germany

Loau Solamalemalo Keneti Sio
Minister of Education, Sports and Culture, Samoa

Koumbou Boly Barry
Special Rapporteur on the right to education, United Nations Human Rights Council

Galina Merkulova
Vice-President of the European Trade Union Committee for Education, President of the Education and Science Employees' Union of Russia

Prof. Marwan Awartani
Minister of Education and Chairman of the Palestinian European Academic Cooperation Council, Palestine

Marième Sakho Dansokho
General Secretary, Teacher Trade Union of Senegal

Dr Habibah Abdul Rahim
Director General, Ministry of Education, Malaysia

Randi Weingarten
President, American Federation of Teachers

Shoya Yoshida
General Secretary, International Trade Union Confederation | Asia Pacific

Lhagva Tsedevsuren
Minister of Education and Science, Mongolia

Christine Blower
President, European Trade Union Committee for Education

Pasi Sahlberg
Professor of Education Policy, UNSW Sydney

Pan Wen-Chung
Minister of Education, Taiwan

Manal Hdaife
Vice-President, Public Primary Schools Teachers League, Lebanon

Lily Eskelsen-García
Former President, National Education Association (US)

Mugwena Maluleke
General Secretary, South African Democratic Teachers Union

Koen Timmers
Global Teacher Prize 2017 & 2018 finalist, educator and researcher, Project Kakuma

Shigeru Aoyagi
Director, UNESCO Bangkok