Sal Khan

Sal Khan is an American educator and the founder and CEO of Khan Academy, a nonprofit online educational platform that provides free lessons across a wide range of academic subjects. He holds three degrees from MIT and an MBA from Harvard Business School, and before dedicating himself to education full-time, he worked as a financial analyst. Khan is best known for creating thousands of video lessons that have reached tens of millions of learners worldwide, and for advocating a mastery-based, self-paced approach to learning. He also founded Khan Lab School, a laboratory school in Mountain View, California.