Giulia McPherson is the newly appointed executive director of the Global Campaign for Education-US, a broad-based coalition dedicated to ensuring universal quality education for all children. She has 20 years of leadership experience in the humanitarian and development sectors and most recently served as vice president of advocacy and operations at Jesuit Refugee Service/USA.

Glenda Cooper is based in London, where she covers U.K. aid reform and the vibrant NGO sector for Devex. Glenda has worked for the Washington Post and several other publications, as well as for Save the Children as the U.K. team's media manager. She has spent a year's fellowship at Oxford University researching the relationship between aid agencies and the media, and has since been pursuing a doctorate examining how new media is changing the reporting of disasters.

Gloria Jaconelli is a communications manager for CropLife International, the global voice for the plant science industry. Prior to joining CropLife International, she spent 7.5 years working on communications projects covering issues from energy to internet safety for the European Institutions in Brussels. This included five years as knowledge exchange coordinator and journalist for capacity4dev.eu, a knowledge sharing platform run by DG DEVCO.

Gloria Pallares is a journalist reporting on sustainable development, global health and humanitarian aid from Africa and Europe. Her work has appeared in a range of publications including El Pais, Forbes, CIFOR’s Forest News and the leading media outlets in Spain via the multimedia newswire Europa Press.

Dr. Gloria Sangiwa has more than 20 years of experience as a leader, technical expert, and manager in global chronic diseases, HIV and AIDS, international public health programs, development, training, and research, with a focus in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. Before joining Pact, Sangiwa served as a director and global technical lead for chronic diseases at Management Sciences for Health. She is a trained psychiatrist with a medical degree from the University of Dar es Salaam Medical School and postgraduate training in mental health.

Gloria Mwaniga Odary is a writer of novels, short stories, and children’s books. She is also a communications consultant and has written business articles for the International Finance Corporation and How We Made It In Africa business journal. Her writing has won awards such as the Morland Writing Scholarship and the Africa Land Policy Centre Story Prize. For over 10 years, Gloria published book reviews and author interviews with The East African and the Nation newspapers in Kenya.

Godwin Othieno is a development practitioner with 10 years’ experience in both the public and private sector. He works as a program design officer with Private Sector Foundation Uganda focusing on engaging Uganda’s private sector to increase early childhood investments. He holds a bachelor’s degree is urban planning and master’s degree in development studies. He holds the prestigious best presentation award from the The Global Development Partnership Center of The Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements.

Dr. Gonzalo Castro de la Mata was appointed to the World Bank Inspection Panel on Dec.16, 2013, and became its chairman in November 2014. He is a U.S. and Peruvian national with close to three decades of international development experience. His career includes key roles across the private and public sectors and in multiple areas of development work, including biodiversity, climate change, accountability and ecosystem management. He earned a Ph.D. in ecology and population biology from the University of Pennsylvania and received his M.A and B.A. from Cayetano Heredia University in Lima, Peru.

Goodall Edward Gondwe is Malawi's minister of finance, economic planning and development and has had a long and distinguished career as an economist. Among other positions, he has worked at the Reserve Bank of Malawi, the African Development Bank and served in the International Monetary Fund for 22 years. Since 2002, he has worked in the government of Malawi, and in 2014 was appointed to head the amalgamation of the Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Economic Planning and Development.

Gordon Whitman is managing director for International Organizing at Faith in Action, which supports grassroots organizing and community-led development in the U.S. and a dozen countries in Latin America, Africa, and Eastern Europe.