Sadhguru, Julia Gillard and Thomas Friedman to Inspire Delegates at Fifth Global Education and Skills Forum in Dubai

The fifth annual Global Education & Skills Forum (GESF), held under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, will concentrate on the theme of "The best ways to materialize global residents".

GESF 2017, a Varkey Foundation initiative, will certainly be staged at The Atlantis, Dubai, on 18-19 March 2017 with leading numbers from public, exclusive and social sectors present.

Amongst key speakers spearheading the sessions are Sadhguru, a yogi, mystic, bestselling writer & poet, Julia Gillard, 27th Prime Minister of Australia, Thomas Friedman, NY Times writer and Pulitzer Prize winning writer, Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO, Andreas Schleicher, Director for the Directorate of Education and Skills, OECD, Tariq Al Gurg, Chief Executive Officer of Dubai Cares and Jim Ryan, 11th Dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Extensively referred to as 'the Davos of Education', the Global Education & Skills Forum (GESF) will certainly question new ways for education to transform our world, with the occasion finishing in the announcement of the winner of the US $1M Global Educator Reward 2017.

Sadhguru will certainly bring motivational insight to this year's theme of the best ways to make real global citizens.

In an opening plenary session Sadhguru aims to share his decades of wisdom and finding out with the set up leaders to influence them to higher heights during their two days of ideas sharing and consideration on several of the greatest global education difficulties and equipping youngsters for the obstacles of the future.

Sadhguru said: "Education needs ideas, not simply info. Just inspired humans could change their very own lives and lives around them."

Sunny Varkey, Founder of the Varkey Foundation, said:

" We are honoured that Sadhguru will certainly be joining us as we aim to weave with each other the very best method to help children end up being real global people.

" In a world that could look progressively split, Sadhguru's combination of typical knowledge and modern clinical techniques have never been more relevant to help bring us with each other."