Maysa Jalbout is the CEO of the Abdullah Al Ghurair Foundation, the largest privately funded foundation focused on education in the Arab world. She was the founding CEO of the Queen Rania Foundation for Education and before that the head of Education Policy at the Canadian International Development Agency. She is also currently a Non-Resident Fellow of the Centre for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution and a board member of the International Baccalaureate Organization.