Asmaa Al-Fadala is the director of research and content development at WISE, an initiative of Qatar Foundation. She is also a visiting Fellow in the Department of School Education and Policy at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, USA, and serves on the program committee of Hamad Bin Khalifa University's School of Public Policy. Dr. Al-Fadala has twenty years of professional experience in K-12 education and higher education. In her current work at WISE, Dr. Al-Fadala is leading the research team in support of the QF CEO's Office in a number of projects and initiatives, including the Empowering Leaders of Learning Program (ELL); the Agile Leaders of Learning Innovation Network (ALL-IN); and the WISE-Academyati Innovation Lab Project, an early childhood education research initiative of Qatar Foundation focused on learner and educator development in progressive school settings. Dr. Al-Fadala holds a Ph.D. and M.Phil. from Cambridge University, UK, in Educational Leadership and Policy, and an M.A. in science education from Brighton University.