Dr. Ahmad Tarakji is a Syrian American thoracic surgeon in Fresno, California, and past president of the Syrian American Medical Society.

Dr. Ahmed Ogwell Ouma is the acting director at Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention.

Dr. Aili Kang is an award-winning conservationist and ecologist, leading on strategy and operations for the Wildlife Conservation Society in China. In 2009, she received the Society for Conservation Biology’s Early Career Conservationist Award for her work on conservation of mammals in the Tibetan steppe of China.

Dr. Alfred Hannig is the executive director of the Alliance for Financial Inclusion.

Dr. Alfred Saah is Executive Director of Scientific Affairs for Vaccines within Global Medical and Scientific Affairs at MSD. His responsibilities within Scientific Affairs for Vaccines include managing the MSD Investigator-Initiated Studies Program, Scientific Input Engagements and related global Congress activities. As an internist, epidemiologist and infectious diseases clinician, he joined MSD in 1997 after careers at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, and Johns Hopkins University.

Dr. Allyn Auslander is the associate vice president of research for Operation Smile, an international NGO that has provided free cleft lip and palate surgery to over 300,000 patients across the world.

Dr. Alok Ranjan is the director of programs and investments at The Power of Nutrition. He has around two decades of experience across various public health and nutrition programs. He has previously worked at the Gates Foundation, UNICEF, and WHO. He is a medical doctor with a post-graduate degree in community medicine.

Amel Karboul is CEO at the Education Outcomes Fund and commissioner at the Education Commission. Karboul has held leadership roles at Mercedes-Benz, DaimlerChrysler; senior consultant roles at the Boston Consulting Group and Beratergruppe Neuwaldegg; and the secretary-general position at the Maghreb Economic Forum. She was, until February 2015, the tourism minister in the Tunisian transition government that was appointed after the successful “quartet” negotiations. She was nominated as one of the 10 leading young African politicians. “Coffin Corner,” her book, outlines a new leadership culture suited to the complexity and dynamics of the 21st century.

Dr. Anand Date is the global TB branch chief for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Dr. Date has 15 years of experience with CDC’s global TB and TB/HIV portfolio. He has contributed to recommendations, strategies, and implementation guidance for TB and TB/HIV. Dr. Date is a member of several expert panels for the World Health Organization's tuberculosis guidelines and policies. He co-led operational research studies to improve clinical outcomes of people with TB disease, including people living with HIV, children, and health care workers. Dr. Date is a physician by training and completed his medical and preventive medicine residency at Mumbai University in India.

Dr. André Tchouatieu is a physician with specialized training in malaria, health economics, and health systems. Currently he is the director of access and product management at Medicines for Malaria Venture, a product development partnership based in Geneva, where he leads the chemoprevention strategy. In his work, he collaborates with international and endemic-country partners to increase access to preventive malaria medicines.