Esther Duflo is the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics in the department of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a co-founder and co-director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab.

Esther Ngumbi is a post-doctoral researcher at Auburn University in Alabama. She serves as a 2017 Clinton Global Initiative University mentor for agriculture and is a 2015 Food Security New Voices fellow at the Aspen Institute.

Estrella “Esther” Penunia is secretary-general of the Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development, or AFA. AFA is a regional alliance of national farmer organizations, representing around 13 million small-scale family farmers engaged in crops, livestock, fisheries, forestry, herding, and pastoralism. AFA promotes sustainable, climate-resilient, and agroecological approaches in farms, fisheries, and forests.

Dr Etienne Krug is the director of World Health Organization's Department for Management of Noncommunicable diseases, Disability, Violence and Injury Prevention since its creation in September 2014. Prior to joining WHO, Dr Krug held positions at the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and served as Country Director for Medecins Sans Frontières in several countries in Africa and Latin America. He holds a degree of Medical Doctor from the University of Louvain in Brussels, Belgium, his native country, and a Masters Degree in Public Health from Harvard University in the United States.

Eugene Amusin leads client solutions and strategy development at Citi Social Finance, focusing on social impact in emerging markets. He provides industry specialist support across regions working with corporate, microfinance institutions, banks, and nonprofits. He is also responsible for the bank’s work globally with social enterprises.

Eugene Zapata Garesche is the Rockefeller Foundation's 100 Resilient Cities program's regional director for Latin America and the Caribbean starting August 2016. He was born in Mexico City and studied international relations at the National University of Mexico, the London School of Economics and the University of Paris-Sorbonne. For over two decades he has specialized in the international relations of local governments, particularly as senior international adviser to the mayor of Mexico City, North American regional secretary of Metropolis and coordinator of the AL-LAs project.

The European Think Tanks Group made is up of Europe’s four leading think tanks on international development: the German Development Institute/Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), the European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM), Fundacion para las Relaciones Internacionales y el Dialogo Exterior (FRIDE) and the Overseas Development Institute (ODI).

Eva Dick is a senior researcher at Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik / German Development Institute (DIE) in Bonn, Germany. Currently she is advising the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development in the Habitat III process. Her research focus is on migration, urban governance and planning.

As a correspondent based in Brussels, Eva Donelli covers EU development policy issues and actors, from the EU institutions to the international NGO community. Eva was previously at the United Nations Regional Information Center for Western Europe and in the European Parliament's press office. As a freelance reporter, she has contributed to Italian and international magazines covering a wide range of issues, including EU affairs, development policy, social protection and nuclear energy. She speaks fluent English, French and Spanish in addition to her native Italian.

As a correspondent based in Brussels, Eva Donelli covers EU development policy issues and actors, from the EU institutions to the international NGO community. Eva was previously at the United Nations Regional Information Center for Western Europe and in the European Parliament's press office. As a freelance reporter, she has contributed to Italian and international magazines covering a wide range of issues, including EU affairs, development policy, social protection and nuclear energy. She speaks fluent English, French and Spanish in addition to her native Italian.