Elise Young serves as senior adviser, gender mainstreaming and thought leadership at FHI 360. She is an international development and policy professional with more than 15 years of experience. She has worked for multiple years on the ground in both Francophone and Anglophone Africa, Haiti and the Caribbean, and specializes in fair trade, economic development, food security, agricultural development, land rights, women's rights, education, gender integration, civil society consultation and overall aid accountability.

Elisha London is the CEO and founder of United for Global Mental Health. London was previously the founding U.K. director of the Global Poverty Project (now Global Citizen) and campaign director for the Heads Together campaign, spearheaded by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry. She has consulted for a range of multilateral, government, and nonprofit organizations, including the U.K. Department for International Development and the World Bank. She is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader.

Elissa McCarter is the VP for the Global Communities’ Office of Development Finance. She also serves as CEO of a firm established to hold assets of the NGO’s microfinance subsidiaries with high growth potential. Before joining Global Communities, she established two microfinance institutions in Armenia and Turkey and served as a technical advisor to MFIs in Morocco, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia and Egypt.

Elissa Miolene reports on USAID and the U.S. government at Devex. She previously covered education at The San Jose Mercury News, and has written for outlets like The Wall Street Journal, San Francisco Chronicle, Washingtonian magazine, among others. Before shifting to journalism, Elissa led communications for humanitarian agencies in the United States, East Africa, and South Asia.

Eliza Keller is the editor-in-chief of the Columbia Journal of International Affairs and a partner at the Truman National Security Project. She is currently an MPA candidate at Columbia University, where her research focuses on governance in fragile states. Prior to Columbia, Eliza worked in public affairs at the Millennium Challenge Corp. The views expressed here are her own, and not those of current or previous employers.

Eliza Villarino is an associate editor for Devex and leads the company's news team in Manila. She played a critical role in conceptualizing the Development Newswire. Prior to joining Devex in 2004, she has already published articles and news briefs for Internet media organizations and for the Institute for Ethics and Economic Policy at Fordham University in New York. She earned her bachelor's in political science and master's in public affairs from the University of the Philippines. Eliza is a member of Mensa Philippines.

Eliza Villarino currently manages one of today’s leading publications on humanitarian aid, global health and international development, the weekly GDB. At Devex, she has helped grow a global newsroom, with talented journalists from major development hubs such as Washington, D.C, London and Brussels. She regularly writes about innovations in global development.

El Iza Mohamedou is the head of the OECD Centre for Skills which supports countries to achieve better economic and social outcomes by taking a whole-of-government approach and engaging with stakeholders to develop and implement better skills policies. She has more than 25 years of experience working in the field and at the headquarters with various international organizations, as well as in the private sector. El Iza holds a doctorate in economics, a Master of Business Administration in international business, and a Bachelor of Arts in economics.

Elizabeth Aceituno is a sustainable finance expert with WWF’s Global Finance Practice, which she joined in 2017. She works to help influence the financial system to improve integration of environmental risks, deliver investment for sustainable development, and eventually drive sustainable practices through other sectors.

Elizabeth Andersen is the executive director of the World Justice Project, which works to promote the rule of law globally and annually publishes the WJP Rule of Law Index, measuring the rule of law in 140 countries.