World Teachers' DaySpeakers
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