Shai Reshef is President of University of the People (UoPeople), the first tuition-free, nonprofit, American accredited online university, dedicated to opening access to higher education globally. UoPeople serves 25,000 students from over 200 countries. Before establishing UoPeople, Reshef founded and chaired the first online university outside the US with University of Liverpool. Reshef has been widely recognized for his work, including being named one of Fast Company's 100 Most Creative People in Business, Wired Magazine's 50 People Changing the World, a Top Global Thinker by Foreign Policy Magazine and Huffington Post's Ultimate Game Changer in Education. Global media coverage includes NY Times, Washington Post, CNN, Chronicle on Higher Education, Inside Higher Ed and NPR, among others. An expert on the intersection of education and technology, Reshef has spoken at CGI, DLD, TED, WEF, and Google's Higher Education Summit and lectured at Yale, Harvard, Stanford, Oxford, and others.