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EiMEducation Advisory Board holds inaugural summit at Dulwich College (Singapore), empowering international school leaders to navigate AI with rigor and confidence
SINGAPOREApril 29, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Education in Motion (EiM) today announced that its EiM Education Advisory Board (EAB) held its inaugural summit and board meeting in Singapore from April 27 to 28, 2026. EiM’s schools include Dulwich College International and other renowned institutions across the UK, Switzerland, and China. This meeting marks the formal fulfillment of the commitments made when the board was established in September 2025, and represents a significant milestone in the EiM group’s AI education strategy.
Hosted by Dulwich College (Singapore), the summit brought together former presidents of Yale University, the University of Oxford, New York University, and Rice University, as well as one of the world’s foremost experts in AI education—Professor Rose Luckin, Emeritus Professor at University College London. This was a landmark gathering of renowned academic leadership, exploring the role AI should play in schools.
Approximately 40 education experts attended the meeting, including heads of schools from across EiM’s global network, the group’s education team, and teacher representatives from various schools. The summit was the core component of a three-day program that also included the first in-person meeting of the EiM Education Advisory Board and EiM’s annual “BlueSky” heads of school conference.
School leaders worldwide are grappling with the increasingly profound changes brought about by AI. EiM, however, consistently places students at the heart of every decision, allowing technology to serve pedagogy. Its technology vision is evidence-based, aiming to select new tools and technologies proven to positively shape student educational outcomes and prepare students for a future yet to be written.
In the face of the prospects offered by new technology, EiM’s purpose in holding this summit was not to find ready-made answers for AI’s role in education, but to cultivate the ability of school leaders to think clearly and act wisely.
Professor Rose Luckin led a half-day in-depth workshop on how large language models function in educational settings and what this truly means for educators committed to a student-centered approach when considering the adoption of these technologies.
Professor Luckin stated: “School leaders are being asked to make critical decisions about AI’s role in their institutions with incomplete information and high expectations for the potential of new technology. The purpose of this summit was not to tell them what to think, but to provide them with the tools to think clearly—to discern genuine evidence from commercial noise and make decisions that benefit students both today and for the next decade.”
The choice of Singapore as the venue for the inaugural EiM Education Advisory Board summit reflects both EiM’s deep roots in the country through Dulwich College (Singapore) and the city-state’s strategic position as a global hub for education and technology.
The spirit of leveraging innovative technology to improve educational and societal outcomes that drove this summit is also the ethos behind the construction of The Greenhouse at Dulwich College (Singapore). This seven-story, net-zero energy multi-purpose extension building, completed in 2023, hosted the EiM Education Advisory Board summit.
The Greenhouse houses a 400-seat multi-purpose auditorium, a STEAM workshop, a professional teaching kitchen, film and television production suites, and three black box theaters. Notably, The Greenhouse is the first international school building in Singapore to receive the Building and Construction Authority’s Green Mark Platinum Zero Energy certification—meaning its renewable energy generation equals or exceeds its total annual energy consumption.
An Exceptional Advisory Board
Established in September 2025, the EiM Education Advisory Board aims to harness the wisdom of renowned experts to guide the future of education. The board is co-chaired by:
- Richard Levin—Frederick William Beinecke Professor Emeritus of Economics at Yale University, President of Yale University from 1993 to 2013, and former CEO of Coursera; and
- Lesley Meyer—Chief Education Officer at EiM, with over 35 years of experience in international school leadership.
Other members include:
- Professor Rose Luckin—Emeritus Professor at University College London, world-leading AI education researcher, and founder of Educate Ventures Research
- David Leebron—Former President of Rice University and former Dean of Columbia Law School
- Dr. Andrew Hamilton—Former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford and former President of New York University
- Doris Sohmen-Pao—Former Trustee of Princeton University, and MBA Program Director at INSEAD and the National University of Singapore
Richard Levin commented: “The question facing education is not whether to embrace AI, but how to embrace it—with the rigorous, evidence-based thinking that distinguishes truly excellent schools from the rest. This summit was an excellent opportunity to showcase that thinking and ensure that EiM’s schools lead the way rather than follow the crowd.”
Lesley Meyer stated: “When we established the Education Advisory Board, we committed to bringing together the world’s best thinkers on the most critical issues in education. Bringing the board to Singapore for our inaugural summit—focusing on AI, the defining challenge in education today—is a declaration of our intent to shape this important conversation.”