Eleonora Mura works as program officer at the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance coordinating the Inter-Regional Dialogue on Democracy. Prior to working at International IDEA, Eleonora completed multiple assignments in the United Nation peacekeeping mission in Western Sahara and the United Nations Volunteers HQ in Bonn. She also collaborated with several NGOs in central and eastern Europe in support of minorities and marginalized groups.

Elhadj As Sy is the chair of the Kofi Annan Foundation. Prior to that, Sy assumed the role of secretary-general of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. He has extensive experience in leadership roles in the humanitarian sector, having previously served at a senior level with UNICEF, UNAIDS, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, and other agencies for more than 25 years.

Eliana Vera is project manager for SNV USA. With over 20 years of experience leading programs with foundations and NGOs, she now manages a project to strengthen smallholder farmer capacity to access the national school meal market in Ghana, Kenya, and Mali funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Elias Meseret is an Associated Press reporter based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. He also writes for the German news agency DPA, hosts a radio program that is dedicated to social media and fact-checking, and regularly appears on both local and international TV and radio stations for commentary on a range of topics touching on Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa.

Elias Sagmeister is a programme manager at Ground Truth Solutions. He designs and implements projects to increase accountability to affected people with a range of humanitarian agencies in Afghanistan and other countries affected by crisis. Before joining Ground Truth, Elias was a project manager at the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) in Berlin, where he is a nonresident fellow. Past projects have included collaborations with the ICRC, IRC, UNHCR, ECHO, DFID, and other aid agencies.

Elie Chaillot is president and chief executive officer of GE HealthCare’s international region, a $7 billion business unit. He leads a team of 25,000 colleagues that provide health care technologies, services, and solutions to enable better patient care across more than 150 countries globally.

Currently the director of the Peace, Stability, and Transition practice, Elisabeth Dallas is a conflict prevention and resolution expert with over 15 years of experience designing and implementing programs that successfully mitigate conflict and support state-of-the art peacebuilding. Prior to joining Chemonics, Dallas served as a senior conflict and peacebuilding advisor in USAID's Office of Conflict Management and Mitigation. She has also served as a chief of party for the Public International Law & Policy Group and worked in more than 15 countries throughout South Asia, Africa, and Eastern Europe. Her expertise is applying conflict sensitive approaches to development, violence prevention, mediation, and negotiation.

Elisabeth d'Auchamp is social media lead for the EU's Humanitarian Aid & Civil Protection department. Before coming to Brussels, she worked for Devex in Barcelona and in TV journalism in Washington, D.C.

Elisabeth Fosseli Olsen is a Ph.D. researcher at the TIK Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture at the University of Oslo, specializing in blended finance in development. Co-founder of Future Horizons AS, she brings over 20 years of consultancy experience in the development sector.