U.S. Congressman Dwight Evans is a freshman member serving his first term. He serves on the House Agriculture Committee, specifically on the Subcommittee on Nutrition and the Subcommittee on Livestock and Foreign Agriculture. He also serves on the House Small Business Committee, and is the Ranking Member on the Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Tax and Capital Access as well as serves on the Subcommittee on Contracting and the Workforce. He is a member of the Congressional Black Caucus. He represents Northwest, West, North, parts of South and Center City Philadelphia, and the western suburbs of Narberth and Lower Merion Township.

Dyno (J.D.H.) Keatinge is Director General of AVRDC, the World Vegetable Center, based in Taiwan based in Taiwan and chair of the Association of International Research and Development Centers for Agriculture. With global expertise in crop agronomy, Keatinge is also chair of the Global Horticulture Initiative and a member of the advisory committee to USAID’s Innovation Lab for Horticulture.

Dzenita Kolja is executive director and co-owner of CDS Consulting, a Bosnian-based international development firm. She has over 17 years of experience working on USAID-funded projects, including 12 years with Chemonics, serving in different roles supporting implementation of projects in Bosnia, Serbia, Moldova and Afghanistan. She currently leads Chemonics’ Country Operations Optimization Program in Afghanistan.

Dzingai Mutumbuka served as the first minister of education and culture for Zimbabwe from 1980 to 1989 and currently serves as a board member at Teach For All.

Eaimt Phoo Phoo Aung is an Asia Foundation development fellow from Myanmar. She currently works on macro-economic analysis and economic governance reform issues and is based in Yangon.

Ebru Özdemir currently chairs Limak Holding and the Limak Foundation. Under her leadership, the Limak Foundation has launched significant national and international initiatives, such as Engineer Girls of Turkey, Global Engineer Girls, and the Limak Philharmonic Orchestra, focusing on social impact, education, and cultural development.

Ed Brown is senior lecturer in geography at Loughborough University in the United Kingdom. He is a political geographer who has worked on a range of development issues over the past 20 years including questions of governance, transparency, corruption and equity. He is the co-chair of the U.K. Low Carbon Energy for Development Network.

Ed Morrow is a communications and campaigns professional with a decade of experience in the public and third sectors. He has increasingly come to specialize in helping organizations and researchers communicate their data in ways that are accessible and useful to shape and influence policy and practice. In his current role at Lloyd's Register Foundation, Ed leads communications for the World Risk Poll, encouraging policymakers and businesses around the world to use its insights to design and target interventions that make people safer.

Ed Royce is a co-chair of the Consensus for Development Reform and policy director at the Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck law firm. He served as chair of the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee from 2013-2019.

Edd Wright is regional director for Southeast Asia for World Neighbors. He worked for a number of years in South Sudan with Private Agencies Collaborating Together.