one laptop per child

OLPC was founded by Nicholas Negroponte with a core of Media Lab veterans, but quickly expanded to include a wide range of exceptionally talented and dedicated people from academia, industry, the arts, business, and the open-source community. Each individual involved brings a unique skill set, and a deep personal passion, to the project.

Nicholas Negroponte

Chairman

Nicholas Negroponte is founder and chairman of the One Laptop per Child non-profit organization. He is currently on leave from MIT, where he was co-founder and director of the MIT Media Laboratory, and the Jerome B. Wiesner Professor of Media Technology.

Charles Kane

President, Chief Operating Officer

Chuck Kane has acquired a wealth of experience at a number of respected organizations, including Aspen Technology, Corechange, Inc., Open Text, Inc. and Deloitte and Touche.

Antonio Battro

Antonio Battro

Chief Education Officer

Considered a world leader in the new field of neuroeducation, Antonio Battro is an MD and PhD who specializes in the development of basic cognitive and perceptual processes in children and adolescents.

Robert Fadel

VP International Operations

Robert Fadel is managing the administrative functions, and assisting in strategic planning and relations with partner organizations and governments.

Edward McNierney

VP Software Development

Ed McNierney brings a diversity of software experience to OLPC, and is responsible for all OLPC’s software development activities, coordinating work among our development team and our worldwide partners.

John Watlington

VP Hardware Development

John Watlington brings decades of hardware experience designing advanced media processing platforms at the MIT Media Lab. Since then he has served as director of hardware engineering at AudioVelocity and Ucentric Systems, and as a principal researcher at Orange R&D. John is reponsible for the design and manufacturing of the laptop.

David Cavallo

VP Learning

David Cavallo guides OLPC's Learning Team in assisting countries to develop their own educational visions, local teams, and operational framework, and in producing electronic materials for learning in immersive, connected environments.

Habib Khan

Director of Education for South and Central Asia

Dr. Khan has three decades of rich experience in international education development. During that time, he has served in strategic positions within the ministry of education in Pakistan.

Matt Keller

Director for Europe, Middle East, Africa

Matt Keller works with governments around the world to introduce the XO to children living in the poorest and most remote regions of the world. He works to develop implementation strategies, and lobbies wealthy nations to provide resources to the least developed countries.

Anthony Wong, S.B.S., J.P.

President, China and South East Asia

Anthony Wong has three decades of experience in the telecommunications and technology sectors. He is now helping OLPC to promote and develop its mission in China and South East Asia.

Satish Jha

President and CEO, OLPC India

Satish Jha has worked at the intersection of technology and management both in global markets and the social space. He has served as a global information management executive with two of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies and as CEO of a consulting firm.

Rodrigo Arboleda H.

President and CEO, Ibero-America & The Caribbean

Rodrigo Arboleda Halaby is currently President and CEO, Ibero-America and The Caribbean for the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) Association. Born in Medellin, Colombia, he completed his Bachelor's Degree in Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1965, and was elected president of the Colombian Society of Architects in Medellín in 1975.

Walter De Brouwer

President and CEO, OLPC Europe

OLPC Europe is an international foundation, which cooperates with Fondation Roi Baudouin. The Foundation assists in the funding and setting up of investment syndicates for LDCs (Least Developed Countries), NICs (Newly Industrialized Countries) and failed states, and serves as liaison between EU Development Agencies, the International Development Organizations present in Brussels and the CSR departments of corporations worldwide.

advisors

  • Rebecca Allen
  • Howard Anderson
  • José María Aznar
  • V. Michael Bove, Jr.
  • Benjamin Mako Hill
  • William Kolb
  • Alan Kay
  • Ayo Kusamotu
  • Rodrigo Mesquita
  • Eben Moglen
  • Seymour Papert
  • Bruce Parker
  • Ted Selker
  • Barry Vercoe
  • Larry Weber

board of directors

  • Jorge Castañeda
  • Marcelo Claure (Brightstar)
  • Gary Dillabough (eBay)
  • Mike Evans (Red Hat)
  • Mary Himinkool (Google)
  • Dandy Hsu (Quanta)
  • Joe Jacobson (MIT)
  • Charles Kane (OLPC)
  • Steve Kaufman (Riverside)
  • Tom Meredith (MFI)
  • Nicholas Negroponte (OLPC)
  • Jeremy Philips (NewsCorp)
  • Clyde Rodriquez (AMD)
  • John Roese (Nortel)
  • Scott Soong (Chi Lin)
  • Sehat Sutardja (Marvell)