Stavros N. Yiannouka

Mr. Yiannouka is Chief Executive Officer of the World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE), a major initiative of the Qatar Foundation. WISE is dedicated to advancing universal access to education, lifelong learning and education anytime, anywhere. Through education and research, Qatar Foundation leads human, social and economic development in Qatar and is dedicated to making Qatar a nation that is a vanguard for productive change in the region and the broader international community.

Prior to joining WISE, Mr. Yiannouka was the Executive Vice-Dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore. He joined the LKY School in June 2005 to spearhead the implementation of an ambitious growth strategy, which he had helped develop as a management consultant with McKinsey & Company. Today, the LKY School is widely recognized as the leading global policy school in Asia.

Together with Kishore Mahbubani et. Al., Mr. Yiannouka is the co-author of Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy: Building a Global Policy School in Asia, World Scientific (2012).

Before joining the LKY School, Mr. Yiannouka spent 5 years with McKinsey & Company, serving private and public sector clients in Singapore, Indonesia, South Korea and Canada, predominantly in finance, healthcare and education. Prior to joining McKinsey, he practiced corporate law in the City of London from 1995-1998 with the firms Gouldens and Mayer, Brown & Platt.

Mr. Yiannouka holds an MBA (with Distinction) from the London Business School, an LLB (with Honours) from the University of Bristol, and is a member of the Law Society of England and Wales, and an Adjunct Professor and Senior Advisor at the LKY School.