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.
Audrey Azouley
Director General, UNESCO
Alberto Fernández
President, Argentina
Maria Ressa
Time Magazine Person of the Year, Rappler co-founder and CEO
Susan Hopgood
President, Education International
Giriraj Mani Pokharel
Minister of Education, Science and Technology, Nepal
Macky Sall
President, Senegal
Andria Zafirakou
Winner of the Global Teacher Prize, 2018
Dr. Tsai Ing-wen
President, Taiwan
Henrietta Fore
Executive Director, UNICEF
Amina Mohammed
Deputy Secretary-General, United Nations
Hanan Al Hroub
Winner of the Global Teacher Prize, 2016
Jane Goodall
Primatologist and anthropologist, Jane Goodall Institute
Sharan Burrow
General Secretary, International Trade Union Confederation
Guy Ryder
Director General, International Labour Organization
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
President of Brazil, 2003-2010
Kailash Satyarthi
Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Global March Against Child Labour, Global Campaign for Education and Children's Foundation
Refaat Sabbah
President, Global Campaign for Education
Andreas Schleicher
Director for the Directorate of Education and Skills, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Becky Pringle
President, National Education Association (US)
Dr Habibah Abdul Rahim
Director General, Ministry of Education, Malaysia
Prof. Marwan Awartani
Minister of Education and Chairman of the Palestinian European Academic Cooperation Council, Palestine
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)
Nadine A. Molloy
Former President, Jamaica Teachers’ Association
Mugwena Maluleke
General Secretary, South African Democratic Teachers Union
Marième Sakho Dansokho
General Secretary, Teacher Trade Union of Senegal
Koen Timmers
Global Teacher Prize 2017 & 2018 finalist, educator and researcher, Project Kakuma
Shigeru Aoyagi
Director, UNESCO Bangkok