Bio

Website: www.rohanroberts.com R ohan is the director of the Dubai Science Festival. He is the co-founder of several global organisations including, Intelligent Optimism, Café Scientifique Dubai and Awecademy. He is currently the Director of Innovation and Future Learning at GEMS Education (world's largest private education provider). Central to his role is the generation and expansion of programmes and strategies aimed at redefining institutions as places in which new ideas, solutions, and products are developed, shared, and scaled, and lead to significant improvement outcomes. Rohan is an avid astronomer and has developed programmes for the Saudi Space Commission. He is also the Lead Curator at Project Tesseract. He has been described in the media and by those who know him as a Renaissance Man, a Polymath, a Multi-potentialite and an Interdisciplinary Systems Thinker. In 2017, he was invited to the inaugural Expo 2020 World Majlis to share his views about the future of Education and in 2022, he keynoted at LEAP, one of the world's largest tech conferences. In recent years, he has moderated panels for SciFest Dubai and Emirates LitFest, and in 2019, he was featured at the World Government Summit as one of six individuals embodying the Advanced skills of the Future. Education Rohan has a Master’s degree in English Literature from the University of Leeds, a PGCE from Sunderland University, and a CICTT diploma from the University of Cambridge. Rohan is a Microsoft Certified Master Trainer, a Google Certified Educator, and has won numerous national and international awards in the field of Education, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship. In recent years, he has collaborated with MIT SOLVE, MIT Lemelson, and Harvard's Project Zero. Since 2017, he has collaborated with Singularity University in creating a Global Futures Curriculum about the impact of exponential technologies, accelerating change, abundance mindsets, and disruptive innovations.