ELEARNING AFRICA NEWS AND ICWE - Key Persons
Biraj Rath is one of the founding members of Braahmam International Limited with offices in US, Ireland and India. Based in Dublin, he specializes in helping customers with design and delivery of products and services for the Middle-East, Indian and South East Asian markets. Biraj has been instrumental in growing Braahmam with a global presence. With over 20 years of dedication to the language industry, he is an authority on localization, digital learning technologies. Biraj has delivered papers at several Translation industry forums, such as industry Globalization and Localization Association (GALA), Localization World, LISA, British Council Forums, CII and IIT. He has been a judge on the prestigious Brandon-Hall panel to review technically innovative e-learning products. He has also served as a program committee member for several industry events. Biraj has served as an ambassador for GALA from 2015-17. Currently, he serves as the CEO of Braahmam and is also one of the founding members of the Indian Language Association (CITLOB).
Richard Knowlton is Director of Security Studies at the Oxford Cyber Academy. He is a also a visiting lecturer at the University of Cambridge Judge Business School, the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU), and the University of the West Indies. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Strategic Risk Management (ISRM) and an honorary Life Member of the International Security Management Association (ISMA). Richard spent six years as Group Corporate Security Director of Vodafone, after an earlier role in Milan as Head of Security (Global Operations) for the Italian UniCredit Group, the largest bank in Central and Eastern Europe. Between 2014-2017, Richard was Executive Director (Europe) for the non-profit Internet Security Alliance (ISA), a multi-sector trade association based in Washington DC. He is a former Board member of the Commonwealth Cyber Crime Consortium. Richard has spoken on digital security risk management on the BBC and regularly presents at major international events, such as the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. He is the three-times chairman of the annual Security of Things World Conferences in Berlin. Richard is a dual Italian-British citizen and lives in Italy.
Stefan Wisbauer attended Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government before joining the World Bank and later McKinsey & Co. as a consultant. He proceeded to help establish a large Public-Private-Partnership treatment capacity building effort in the UK as well as a clinician co-owned hospital chain. Today he is Co-CEO of Lecturio, where he oversees the growth and development of the company's innovative learning-science based medical education platform, which is used by medical students and schools around the world. He sees a need to build scalable new education initiatives to address the health worker shortage around the world and believes a solid digital foundation is a necessity for the success of such efforts.