Registration, Tea & Coffee 

Reflections to mark 20 years of IDEA and on Future Directions including Q&A  

Dr. Eilish Dillon, Department of International Development, Maynooth University

Tea & Coffee Break

This session will be moderated by Pierre Yimbog, Co-founder and Managing Director of Black & Irish and Company Secretary, IDEA. 

Panellists include:

• Dr. Lilian Nwanze-Akobo: Director of the Higher Diploma in Further Education (HDFE) Programme, Maynooth University
• Niall Tierney: Director, Global Programmes and Global Citizenship Education Unit, Irish Aid, Department of Foreign Affairs
• Sarah Kelleher: CEO of Lourdes Youth & Community Services (LYCS)
• Mohammad Naeem: Former UN Youth Delegate of Ireland

Conversation Circle will be led by the following speakers:

• Hilary Darcy and Thomas McDonagh, Financial Justice Ireland.
• Tony Daly, 80:20 Educating and Acting for a Better World.
• Mohammad Naeem, Activist.
• Dr. Lilian Nwanze-Akobo, Maynooth University.
• Dr. Eilish Dillion, Maynooth University.
• Sarah Kelleher, LYCS.
• Pierre Yimbog, Activist & Entrepreneur.

There will be four parallel workshops led by the following facilitators:

• The network we want: How IDEA members act together  with Mark Cumming 
• Envisioning the future of GCE  with Vicky Donnelly 
• Decolonising Justice: Connecting racial equity, philanthropy, and migration for a global Ireland with Bronwyn April and Mdahyelya Bassi 
• A Guiding Principles approach to laying the foundation for GCE with Laura Power