Martin Dougiamas
Founder and CEO
Moodle
Martin Dougiamas is the founder and CEO of the open-source Moodle software project launched in 1999, which includes Moodle LMS, MoodleNet, MoodleCloud, Moodle Workplace and more. He continues to guide and grow the enterprise with the support of 80 team members globally, 90 Moodle Partner companies, thousands of collaborators and hundreds of millions of users world-wide.
Recently Martin founded a new Open Edtech association (openedtech.global) to promote and support open source companies working in education to provide complete, high-quality, ethical, lasting educational technology solutions to power education into the future.
“Education is a basic human right, and no-one would say it’s perfect yet, so any opportunity to help shape the future of it together is a good one.”