Shai Reshef

Shai Reshef is an educational entrepreneur. He is the Founder & President of University of the People. In 2009, Reshef was named one of Fast Company magazine’s “100 Most Creative People in Business, selected by OneWorld as one of its “People of 2009”, awarded a fellowship by Ashoka and welcomed to the United Nations Global Alliance for Information and Communication Technologies and Development (GAID) as a High-level Adviser.

An expert on innovations in education and the intersection of education and technology, Reshef has spoken internationally at conferences including DLD: Digital, Life, Design in Munich, Hacking Education in New York, the World Economic Forum on the Middle East in Jordan, UNDESA-GAID Global Forum in Monterrey, Mexico, and Fourth University Industry Council Symposium in Kolkata, India. He has also lectured at Yale and Harvard. In March 2010, Reshef was the keynote speaker at Google’s ThinkEducation conference.