Delia Grace is an epidemiologist and veterinarian with more than 20 years experience in developing countries. She graduated from several leading universities and currently leads research on zoonoses and food-borne disease at the International Livestock Research Institute based in Nairobi, Kenya. Her research interests include food safety, emerging diseases, gender studies, and animal welfare.

Delphine Barringer-Mills has been engaged in international humanitarian and development work since 2002, currently as an international recruiter for Land O’Lakes International Development, based in Minneapolis, USA. She works in tandem with a new business team in identifying personnel response strategies in the recruitment, selection and presentation of talent. She also assumes alternate proposal roles such as that of the coordinator and writer. Previously Ms. Barringer-Mills spent nearly six years with internationally renowned Doctors without Borders in human resources in New York, Sudan and Haiti.

Denderah Rickmers is a senior knowledge associate with the Knowledge Centre at AVPN.

The Honourable Denis Coderre was elected mayor of the city of Montréal on Nov. 3, 2013. He is also president of the Montréal Metropolitan Community, which includes all 82 municipalities of the Montréal urban area. Previously, Mr. Coderre served as member of the Canadian Parliament for the Montréal-area constituency of Bourassa from 1997 to 2013, where he was re-elected six times. He was appointed to several federal ministerial functions and other positions within the government of Canada, including minister of citizenship and immigration, president of the Queen's Privy Council, minister responsible for the Francophonie, secretary of state for amateur sport, special advisor to the prime minister on Haiti, and federal interlocutor for Métis and non-status Indians.

Dennis Carroll is University Research Co. LLC's senior adviser for global health security and chair of the Global Virome Project leadership board. For nearly 15 years, Carroll directed the pandemic influenza and other emerging threats unit at the U.S. Agency for International Development.

Dennis Erpelding founded Global Farm View, LLC in 2018 to provide strategic counsel to food chain stakeholders globally, in both the private and public sector. Erpelding serves as the science adviser to the International Poultry Council and through that role as the IPC TRANSFORM project leader. Erpelding has over 40 years of experience globally formulating strategy and policies in the legislative, regulatory, food chain, and scientific areas; including helping shape laws, regulations, and policies for antimicrobials in the Americas, Asia, and Europe.

Deodat Maharaj is deputy secretary-general for economic and social development at the Commonwealth Secretariat in London. He was previously chief of the division for Afghanistan and regional bureau for Asia and the Pacific at the U.N. Development Program headquarters in New York. He also served as chief of staff in the UNDP’s regional bureau for Asia and the Pacific, and has lived and worked in Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, Suriname, Guyana and Tanzania.

Deqa Yasin Hagi Yusuf serves as the minister of women and human rights development of Somalia. Previously, she held the position of deputy chair of the Federal Indirect Electoral Implementation Team, where she played a central role in enabling women to occupy 25% of seats in the Parliament. Prior to joining the government, Minister Deqa Yasin advocated for women’s empowerment, human rights, and peace-building during three decades of civil society activism, both in Somalia and internationally.

Derek Kravitz is a research scholar at New York’s Columbia University, working on a forthcoming book project about the Afghanistan war. In the past, Kravitz worked for The Associated Press and The Washington Post in Washington, D.C., and now in New York he’s a regular contributor to The Wall Street Journal and TheNewYorker.com. Kravitz is a former fellow at Columbia University's Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism.

Derek Mitchell is president of the National Democratic Institute.