Shai Reshef

Shai Reshef is the President of University of the People. He was awarded the 2023 Yidan Prize for Educational Development, and an honorary doctorate from the Open University. He is an expert on the intersection of education and technology, was named one of Fast Company’s 100 Most Creative People in Business, awarded an Ashoka fellowship and joined UN-GAID as a High-level Adviser. He has spoken internationally at conferences including the World Economic Forum, The Economist’s Annual Human Potential Summit, Financial Times’ Innovation Conference and the Schools for Tomorrow Event for the New York Times. He has also lectured at Yale, Harvard, Stanford, and Oxford. He holds a Master’s in Chinese Politics from the University of Michigan.