World Education Summit Speaker 2022

Starting Early: Education to Nurture World Peace. Thursday, April 8, 6:30 PM IST
A discussion on UNESCO's novel concept of Global Citizenship Education (GCED),

The Problem With Schools. TedX talk with SciencePo. 17 April, 2021.

Recent lectures

Next Talk: Nelson Mandela: Wisdom & Questions. 27th of March. Africa Learning International Conference

Waterford Alumni Speakers Series ( 1 July, 2020)

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Past Lectures

EduMoc Online Conference keyonte, 5.10.20, 17h50-18h20

http://edumoconline.edu.pl/emo2019/prelegenci-2019/conrad-hughes/

SEPTMBER 2019 GRADUATION CEREMONY

NAISULA SCHOOL

Plenary panel at Noon on Wednesday, April 17, in the Ballroom of the Hyatt Embarcadero in San Francisco

Liangjiatan International Education Forum, Xian City, 18-20 April

East Asia Schools Conference 2019

Chongqing, China, 26 to 27 April 2019

Keynote at the University of Bath's Conference on the International Baccalaureate (19-21 June, 2018)

25-29 March 2018

Featured presenter on UNESCO's International Bureau of Education panel on on preventing violent extremism through education.

International book launch of Understanding Prejudice and Education

Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) conference (Mexico City)

19-20 April 2018

Keynote on Education and Prejudice at the Integrating International Students: Perspectives from Cities, Civil Society and Academia, 2.0. conference in Lublin, Poland.

http://iis-conference.lublin.eu/

16 February 2018

Keynote on Guiding Principles for Learning in the 21st Century at the International Baccalaureate's African Education Festival, Ghana.

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25 October 2017

Keynote on Knowledge in the 21st Century at the Kognity conference on flipping the classroom (The Hague)

6-8 October 2017

Conference at the Alliance for International Education (Amsterdam)

Internationalising Schools: Sharing good practise and addressing challenges

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29 September 2017

Keynote on Understanding Prejudice and Education at the Tackling Discrimination and Prejudice Conference at Durham University's School of Education (Durham, UK)

9 March 2017 - 18h00-20h00

Lecture to MA in Education students of the University of Geneva

13 December 2016 - 10h15

Geneva - University of Geneva – lecture to undergraduate students of Education, UniMail

(en Français)

16 November 2016 - 16h00

Geneva – Association Genevoises des Ecoles Privées, l’Hôtel Royal Manotel,

41 rue de Lausanne

(en Français)

28 October 2016 - 13h00

The Hague – International Baccalaureate Headquarters

About Conrad Hughes

Conrad Hughes (MA, PhD, EdD) is the Director General of the International School of Geneva, the oldest international school in the world. He is also Professor in Practice at the University of Durham's School of Education. He has been School Principal, Director of Education, International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme Coordinator and teacher in schools in Switzerland, France, India and the Netherlands.

Conrad, who is also a Senior Fellow at UNESCO's International Bureau of Education, a member of the advisory board for the University of the People and research assistant at the University of Geneva's department of psychology and education, teaches Theory of Knowledge.

His PhD (2008) is in English literature: The Treatment of the Body in the Fiction of JM Coetzee. His EdD thesis (2018), written at Durham University, is on the relationship between prejudice and education with specific focus on how education can reduce prejudice.

He is the author of numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals and as Director of Education at the International School of Geneva he led the publication of Guiding Principles for Learning in the 21st Century with UNESCO. He has been chief editor for special editions of Springer’s Prospects Journal with entries by leading academics such as Sugata Mitra, Steve Higgins, Doug & Lynn Newton, Scilla Elworthy, Paul Black, AC Grayling and Juan Carlos Tedesco.

Conrad's most recent books are Education and Elitism: Challenges and Opportunities (2021, Routledge), Understanding Prejudice and Education: The Challenge for Future Generations (2017, Routledge) and Educating for the 21st Century: Seven Global Challenges (2018, Brill). His next book, Changing Assessment: How to Design Curriculum for Human Flourishing will be published by Brill in 2025.