Alex Thier is a senior democracy fellow at Freedom House and a senior adviser at Center for Strategic and International Studies. He was a senior official in the Obama administration and executive director of the Overseas Development Institute in London.

Alexander Carnwath is Unicef UK’s senior humanitarian policy adviser.

Alexander Kjærum is a global advisor, senior analyst with the Danish Refugee Council. He is leading the work on enhancing the use of data and analysis for strategic planning, programming, and advocacy. He is also the lead on use of predictive analytics and author on the flagship Global Displacement Forecast report.

Alexander Matheou is the regional director for Asia Pacific at the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. He has worked in the humanitarian sector for 20 years across a variety of fields, including disaster response, food security, social exclusion, displacement and migration, HIV/TB prevention, and institutional development.

Alexander Müller is the founder of TMG Think Tank for Sustainability. He has vast experience in global sustainability governance, including as former FAO assistant director-general; Germany’s state secretary for consumer protection, food and agriculture; chair of the U.N. Standing Committee on Nutrition; and lead at TEEBAgriFood, among others.

Alexander Smith is a lawyer and former USAID senior adviser with over 20 years of experience in global health, human rights, and international law. He has advised United Nations agencies, the International Criminal Court, and other international tribunals on issues of global health, starvation and deprivation, legal accountability, and human rights in conflict and crisis settings.

Alexandra Bilak has almost 20 years of experience in the international nonprofit sector, focusing on research and policy development on displacement in the context of armed conflict, violence, disasters, and climate change. After a decade of working in Africa, she joined the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre in Geneva as head of policy and research in 2014, becoming its director in August 2016.