Aadil Brar is an international freelance journalist and a National Geographic Young Explorer. His articles have appeared in the Diplomat Magazine, The NortheastToday, the Asian Pacific Memo among other publications. Aadil holds a bachelor's degree in anthropology from the University of British Columbia, and is based in Toronto, Canada.

Aadil Mamujee is head of product and deployments at Segovia. He has spent the last decade working in technology in Europe and USA. He was most recently vice president of product management at Pocket Gems, a mobile entertainment company, where he was one of the founding employees and first product manager. He helped grow the company profitably to 200-plus staff and 200 million users. Previously Aadil worked in the early-stage investment team at Index Ventures and at Google in London. Aadil has a M.Eng. from Cambridge University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Aadil was born and raised in Mombasa, Kenya.

Aakriti Pandita, M.D., is an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. Her research and advocacy work are focused on COVID-19 and health care disparities.

Aarathi Krishnan is a volunteerism for development technical specialist and has worked in the sector for the last 10 years. She is currently a program manager with Australian Red Cross responsible for the Australian Volunteers for International Development program. Aarathi has worked in over 9 countries — Kenya, Rwanda, Philippines, India, Solomon Islands, Fiji, Cambodia, Mongolia and has most recently returned from setting up an education and health program in Bhutan.

Aaron Baum, Ph.D., is a lead economist at the Arnhold Institute for Global Health and an assistant professor in the Department of Health System Design and Global Health at the Icahn School of Medicine. His research applies methods from empirical economics to quantify causal relationships. Aaron integrates impact evaluations and R&D on commercial viability into the Institute’s portfolio of work with a focus on value-based care models and data products.

Aaron Benavot is the director of the Education For All Global Monitoring Report, developed by an independent team and published by UNESCO. Benavot is currently on leave from the University at Albany-SUNY, where he serves as a professor in the School of Education. Previously he consulted for UNESCO, its institutes, UNICEF and the World Bank.

Aaron Benavot joined the Global Education Monitoring Report team as director in June 2014, bringing with him decades of experience in global education policy analysis and comparative research. Previous to this post, he served as professor in the School of Education at Albany-State University of New York and consulted for UNESCO, its institutes and UNICEF.

Aaron Britt leads IDEO.org’s storytelling, editorial strategy, and communications all with the aim of pushing the social sector forward through human-centered design. With over a decade of experience as a writer, editor, journalist and video maker, Aaron's work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, the San Francisco Chronicle, Dwell and others.

Aaron Emmel is the director of strategic partnerships at the Global Health Advocacy Incubator, which together with its parent organization the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, works with civil society organizations across public health issues and political systems to advance policies that save lives.

Aaron Gardner is a research scientist with over 15 years of experience working with big data to derive insight and deliver impact across various sectors. He has led the analysis of the World Risk Poll since joining Lloyd’s Register Foundation in 2021. He’s a proponent of making data openly available and accessible to all, regardless of their level of technical expertise to increase transparency and building trust. Prior to the foundation, Aaron split his career between academia, as a medical researcher, and industry, working mainly in the education start-up and scale-up space.