For almost two years, Fragkiska lived in Pyongyang and she has published several analysis and reports on the humanitarian situation and daily life in North Korea. She has worked for the U.N. OCHA in the Philippines and IRIN news in Thailand. She has also lived in Jordan and Uganda where she worked for international aid organizations. She holds a doctorate in anthropology from EHESS or the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris and is a former lecturer at the University of Western Australia.

France Bégin is senior nutrition adviser for infant and young child nutrition at UNICEF in New York and previously she was regional nutrition adviser for the Asia-Pacific region from 2009-2013. She has more than 25 years of experience in international nutrition. She holds a Ph.D. in nutrition from the University of Montreal with a focus on international nutrition.

Frances Seymour is a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development and a senior advisor to the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. She is leading a project designed to create global consensus on the importance of forest conservation, and to promote results-based financing for REDD+. Previously, she served as director general of the Center for International Forestry Research and was a founding director of the Institutions and Governance Program at the World Resources Institute.

Frances Seymour is a distinguished senior fellow at the World Resources Institute, and lead author of the book, "Why Forests? Why Now? The Science, Economics, and Politics of Tropical Forests and Climate Change."

Dr. Francesco Branca is the director of nutrition for health and development at the World Health Organization. He has worked as a senior scientist at the Italian Food and Nutrition Research Institute and was president of the Federation of the European Nutrition Societies in 2003-2007. He finished medicine and surgery and specialized in diabetology and metabolic diseases at the Universita' Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Roma, and obtained a doctorate in nutrition at Aberdeen University.

Francesco Gatti is a Ph.D. researcher in transnational governance at Scuola Normale Superiore in Italy. His research focuses on international organizations and regime complexity, with a particular emphasis on global trade and health governance.

Francesco Rocca is the president of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and national president of the Italian Red Cross Association. He has enjoyed a long and distinguished career with the Italian Red Cross, first as its head of emergency operations in 2008 and its Extraordinary Commissioner (2009-2013) before being appointed national president (2013-2017) and later national president of the Italian Red Cross Association.

Francine Pickup is the United Nations Development Programme’s deputy director in the Bureau for Policy and Programme Support. She has worked in the U.N., Oxfam, and Amnesty International in various countries including Serbia, India, Indonesia, Iraq, and the occupied Palestinian Territory.

Francis Thompson is FCA executive director, and has worked in tobacco control since 1996. From 1996 to 2006, he focused on Canadian regulatory and tax issues; since 2007, he has been full-time on international tobacco control.

Francis West is Senior Private Sector Adviser in Save the Children's Policy and Research Team. He has government affairs experience across both the private sector and civil society and holds and MSc in International Conflict, Security and Development.