Gaston Alfonso Browne has been the prime minister and minister for finance, corporate governance and public private partnerships of Antigua and Barbuda since June 12, 2014. In 2012, he was elected leader of the Antigua and Barbuda Labour Party, which he steered to victory in the 2014 general elections, becoming the fourth prime minister of Antigua and Barbuda. He is the first prime minister to achieve three consecutive terms in office. Between 1999 and 2004, he served as minister for planning, trade, industry, commerce, and public service affairs. While in opposition in Parliament between 2004 and 2014, Browne returned to the private sector as a businessman and launched several successful ventures to include real estate development and management.

Gauri Sarjine is the digital media coordinator at CBM. She oversees CBM’s external communication initiatives and is passionate about international development and human rights. She has over eight years of nonprofit experience across four countries, is fluent in seven languages, and holds a master’s degree from Sciences Po in Paris.

Gavin Cloherty is the head of infectious disease research for Abbott’s diagnostics business. Cloherty provides scientific leadership by conducting clinical studies on the COVID-19 virus, HIV, hepatitis, and more, and by developing new diagnostic tests. He also leads the Abbott Pandemic Defense Coalition, a partnership of scientific, academic, and public health organizations actively hunting, discovering, and researching new and known viral threats around the world. As one of the top experts in the field, his innovative research is changing the way infectious diseases are diagnosed to help improve patient outcomes.

Gavin Krugel is the co-founder and CEO of Digital Frontiers, driving U.N. SDG-aligned capacity building through combining educational technology, or edtech, for scale and market facilitation for localized societal change. He also serves as an executive director on Digital Frontiers’ board and as a non-executive director at DiaspoCare, connecting the global diaspora with home-country health care providers.

Gayatri Lobo is currently the CEO of the India School Leadership Institute (ISLI), an organization that develops school leaders who drive high-performing schools that commit to academic achievement and character development of children from underserved communities in India. Gayatri brings to ISLI a mix of strategy consulting and education experience, having worked most recently as a senior project manager at Dalberg Global Development Advisors.

Gayatri Patel is the senior policy advocate for gender at CARE USA. In this capacity, she leads the advocacy and outreach efforts of the organization on the gender priorities that cut across all of CARE’s work both in the United States and globally. Gayatri is a co-chair of the Girls Not Brides USA Coalition as well as of the Steering Group of the Coalition to End Violence Against Women. Gayatri joined CARE after nearly 10 years advising the U.S. State Department on a variety of human rights and humanitarian issues.

Gayle E. Smith is the President and CEO of the ONE Campaign. She served as a top advisor on development issues for two American presidents and is one of the world’s leading experts on global development.

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, a CNN contributor and the author of the New York Times bestsellers Ashley's War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield and The Dressmaker of Khair Khana. She is also a contributor to Atlantic Media’s Defense One site.

Geetanjali Misra is the co-founder and executive director of CREA. Geeta has worked at the activist, grant-making, and policy levels on issues of sexuality, reproductive health, gender, human rights, and violence against women. Before joining CREA, she was program officer sexuality and reproductive health for the Ford Foundation in New Delhi and supported nongovernmental organizations in India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka working on sexual and reproductive health and rights. She also co-founded SAKHI for South Asian Women in New York in 1989, a nonprofit organisation in New York, committed to ending violence against women of South Asian origin.