Keynote Speakers

Jaap Dronkers is Professor at Maastricht University, The Netherlands. In his keynote he will address the effects of educational systems, school-composition, levels of curricula, parental background and immigrants’ origins on achievement of 15-years old pupils.

Elisabet Öhrn is Professor at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. In her keynote she focuses on "Urban Education and Segregation: Responses from Young People"

Saskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and Co-Chair of The Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University She will focus on "The City: Its Return as a Lens into Larger Economic and Technological Histories"