Florence Onyango is a science editor, research fellow, and communications and impact manager at the Africa Research and Impact Network. A climate adaptation specialist, she works at the intersection of climate change, transdisciplinary research, policy, and sustainability, advancing evidence and policy engagement through strategic communication, media advocacy, and knowledge translation.

Florencia Bluthgen earned her bachelor’s degree in social communications in Buenos Aires and her master’s degree in sustainable international development from Brandeis University, Massachusetts. She has worked in nonprofits in Argentina, Haiti, Colombia, Mexico, and the U.S. in education, poverty alleviation, youth development and women's rights. She is currently the project manager for Fondo Semillas' Women Rebuilding their Communities project, a special project that supports community groups led by women working on the reconstruction of their communities after the 2017 earthquakes that hit central and southern Mexico.

Florian Krätke is a policy officer for the Strengthening European External Action program. He specializes in EU external action, ODA, development financing, technical cooperation, tax and development. Before joining ECDPM in September 2012, he worked on EU technical cooperation and development policy, financing and effectiveness at the ILO and the Association of European Parliamentarians with Africa. He also served as a local governance and civil society adviser for the VSO in Cameroon.

Floyd is a Devex correspondent and journalist based in Manila. He covers the Philippines for the International Herald Tribune and the New York Times. Floyd also operates Asia Editorial Services, a consultancy that provides writing and editing services to development organizations.

Fokko Wientjes is the vice president of nutrition in emerging markets and public-private partnerships at Royal DSM NV with a particular focus on the World Food Programme and UNICEF partnerships on nutrition. He is also a member of the SUN Business Network Executive Committee; Sustainability Advisory Board, SNS Reaal; Advisory Board, Business and Economics School, University Maastricht; Steering Board, World Economic Forum New Vision on Agriculture.

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.