In this year’s edition of the Yidan Prize Summit, held virtually in Hong Kong, 16 academics have been named to the Council of Luminaries.

They are Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, Founder, BRAC (posthumous); Anant Agarwal, CEO and Founder, edX and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Kamal Ahmad, Founder, Asian University for Women; Vicky Colbert, Founder and Executive Director, Fundación Escuela Nueva; Carol Dweck, Lewis and Virginia Eaton Professor of Psychology, Stanford University; Usha Goswami, Director, Center for Neuroscience in Education, University of Cambridge; Eric Hanushek, Paul and Jean Hanna Senior Fellow and Professor, Stanford University and Hoover Institution; Larry Hedges, Chairman, Department of Statistics, Northwestern University.