David has served as U.N. correspondent for the newswire UPI and reported for several major newspapers, including the New York Daily News and Newsday. He was chief correspondent for the Kashmir Observer in Srinagar, India, and regularly contributes to the Economist, among other publications. Since 2007, David has reported for Devex News from Washington, New York, as well as South Asia.

David Loew is executive vice president of Sanofi and the head of Sanofi Pasteur, the world's largest producer of inactivated polio vaccine. David holds an MBA from the University of St Gallen in Switzerland. He worked at Roche from 1992 to 2013, where his roles included being the Region Head of Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa for the Pharma Division.

David McLaughlin is acting senior vice president for sustainable food at World Wildlife Fund. Building on more than 30 years’ experience in the food industry, McLaughlin leads WWF’s multifaceted strategies to engage directly with the business community, multistakeholder certification systems and consumers to reduce the natural resources that farmers and the food industry need to nourish a growing planet.

David McNair is executive director for global policy at The ONE Campaign, a movement of 9 million people fighting for an end to extreme poverty. Previously, David was policy director for transparency and accountability at ONE where he helped build a new global partnership for improving data for sustainable development, and led on agenda setting reports on anti-corruption.

David Milestone is the former acting director of USAID’s Center for Innovation and Impact. Prior to joining USAID in 2012, Milestone held various roles at Stryker, where he led innovation, introduction, and strategy initiatives in India. He has also worked as a management consultant with AT Kearney and as a design engineer at Boeing.

David Muwonge is the deputy executive director of the National Union of Coffee Agribusinesses and Farm Enterprises in Uganda, which undertook a digital profiling initiative with support from the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation. David is also a smallholder farmer himself.

Dr. David Nabarro is a special adviser to the United Nations secretary-general on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and Climate Change and a candidate in the race for WHO director-general. In the past 12 years, successive secretaries-general of the United Nations have entrusted David to lead collective action on some of the most pressing and complex challenges — responding to avian and pandemic influenza, promoting food security, ending malnutrition, combating Ebola, promoting the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and advancing efforts relating to climate change.

David Nicholson is the chief climate officer at Mercy Corps, where he oversees all aspects of the organization’s commitment to climate change as a centerpiece of their new 10-year strategy. He spearheaded Mercy Corps’ global sustainability initiative, which saw it become the first international NGO to publish a comprehensive carbon footprint baseline and reduction targets.