Gary Forster is CEO at Publish What You Fund. He joined Publish What You Fund in 2018 after serving as CEO of Transaid. With a background in logistics at Procter & Gamble and a public health qualification from London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, he has designed and evaluated health programs across sub-Saharan Africa. Until recently, he chaired the Charity Finance Group in the U.K.

Gary Fowlie is a technology economist and member of the ID2020 Alliance’s Ecosystem and Advocacy Advisory Committee. Gary was formerly the representative of the International Telecommunication Union to the United Nations where he led an inter-agency effort to ensure information and communication technologies were recognized in the U.N.’s Sustainable Development Agenda. Previously, he served as chief of media liaison for the United Nations in New York and was responsible for communications and advocacy for the World Summit on the Information Society.

Gary Milante is program director and focal point for the Global Registry of Violent Deaths initiative. His research focuses on measuring and monitoring security and socioeconomic development through indicator and metric design, applied econometrics, statistical analysis, and modeling. He has worked for the World Bank and advised multilateral institutions, civil society organizations, and the governments of lower- and higher-income countries.

Gary E. Knell joined the National Geographic Society as president and CEO in January 2014. He has been a member of the society’s board of trustees since April 2013 and has served on the board of governors of the National Geographic Education Foundation since November 2003.

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.