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As a keynote speaker, he knows how to command a stage where he can deliver a powerful presentation that will captivate your audience.
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Yong Zhao is a highly-sought keynote speaker and expert covering such topics as education, leadership, management, and globalization. He is a best-selling author, consultant, media pundit, and thought-leader who has spoken at many conferences around the world where he gives leaders the skills they need to deal with fast, big changes in society, the workplace, and education.
Yong Zhao is hired to speak at events and conferences where he can give expertise on important global business affairs. He is a multi-award-winning educational change pioneer of international renown. The Foundation Distinguished Professor of the School of Education at the University of Kansas and a Professor of Educational Leadership at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education in Australia, Zhao’s work focused on the implications of globalisation and technology for education. He is passionate about celebrating the individual learner and getting the best out of our students through creative and equitable changes to our education systems. A prolific best-selling author of multiple seminal works in educational reform, Zhao brings his staggering expertise to the stage in March 2022.
Yong Zhao is currently Presidential Chair and Associate Dean for Global Education, College of Education at the University of Oregon, where he also serves as the director of the Center for Advanced Technology in Education (CATE). He is a fellow of the International Academy for Education.
Until December, 2010, Yong Zhao was University Distinguished Professor at the College of Education, Michigan State University (MSU), where he also served as the founding director of the Center for Teaching and Technology, and executive director of the Confucius Institute, as well as the US-China Center for Research on Educational Excellence.
His research interests include educational policy, computer gaming and education, diffusion of innovations, teacher adoption of technology, computer-assisted language learning, and globalization and education.
Zhao has extensive international experiences. He has consulted with government and educational agencies and spoken on educational issues in many countries on six continents. His current work focuses on designing 21st-century schools in the context of globalization and the digital revolution.
Zhao has published more than 20 books and 100 articles. His most recent book is Catching Up or Leading the Way: American Education in the Age of Globalization and the Handbook of Asian Education. He has also developed computer software, including the award-winning New Chengo/ZON , the world’s first multi-player online role-playing game for studying Chinese.
Born in China’s Sichuan Province, Zhao received his B.A. in English Language Education from Sichuan Institute of Foreign Languages in Chongqing, China in 1986. After teaching English in China for six years, he came to Linfield College as a visiting scholar in 1992. He then began graduate studies in education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1993; he received his PhD in 1996. He joined the faculty at MSU in 1996.
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