In this year’s edition of the Yidan Prize Summit, held virtually in Hong Kong, 16 academics have been named to the Council of Luminaries. They are Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, Founder, BRAC (posthumous); Anant Agarwal, CEO and Founder, edX and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Kamal Ahmad, Founder, Asian University for Women; Vicky Colbert, Founder and Executive Director, Fundación Escuela Nueva; Carol Dweck, Lewis and Virginia Eaton Professor of Psychology, Stanford University; Usha Goswami, Director, Center for Neuroscience in Education, University of Cambridge; Eric Hanushek, Paul and Jean Hanna Senior Fellow and Professor, Stanford University and Hoover Institution; Larry Hedges, Chairman, Department of Statistics, Northwestern University. Thomas Kane, Walter H. Gale Professor of Education and Economics, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard University; Salman Khan, Founder and CEO, Khan Academy; Wendy Kopp, CEO and Co-founder of Teach For All; Patricia Kuhl, Professor, Speech and Hearing Sciences, Co-Director, University of Washington Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences; Lucy Lake, CEO, CAMFED; Angeline Murimirwa, Executive Director-Africa, CAMFED; Carl Wieman, DRC Professor in the School of Engineering and Professor of Physics and of Education, Stanford University; Zhu Yong-xin, Founder, New Education Experiment.