Gilbert F. Houngbo is president at the International Fund for Agricultural Development. He has more than 30 years of experience in the public, multilateral, and private sectors, including as deputy director-general at the International Labour Organization. He is also a former prime minister of Togo.

Gim Huay Neo is the managing director and head of the Centre for Nature and Climate at the World Economic Forum.

Gina Agiostratidou is the program director for the Helmsley Charitable Trust's type 1 diabetes program, which aims to advance research, treatments, technologies, and services that improve the lives of people with type 1 diabetes.

Gina Green is a specialist in marine and terrestrial biodiversity, climate change, forestry, and agriculture. She has over 35 years of experience designing, implementing, and evaluating initiatives to protect and manage marine and terrestrial resources in Latin and North America, the Caribbean, Africa, Asia, and the Pacific. She is responsible for Tetra Tech’s portfolio of USG international marine coastal initiatives and has lived and worked throughout the old and new world tropics implementing sustainable fisheries, marine projects, and programs. Green has written and spoken widely about her work and projects.

Gina Lagomarsino is the president and CEO at Results for Development (R4D), which works with change agents around the globe to create self-sustaining systems that support healthy, educated people. She also has extensive experience designing health system reforms to strengthen equity, quality and efficiency. As one of the original co-founders and managing directors at R4D, she was instrumental in developing several key partnerships, including the Primary Health Care Performance Initiative, the Center for Health Market Innovations, and the Joint Learning Network for Universal Health Coverage.

Gina McCarthy is the former White House national climate adviser and managing co-chair of America Is All In. McCarthy is a senior adviser at Bloomberg Philanthropies and a senior fellow at The Fletcher School’s Climate Policy Lab at Tufts University. She is also an operating adviser at Pegasus Capital Advisors and a senior advisor at TPG Rise Climate Fund. She serves as co-chair of the India-U.S. Track II Dialogue on Energy and Climate Change and on the board of directors for the Energy Foundation and the Resources Legacy Foundation.

Ginette Azcona is a policy specialist with UN Women’s Research and Data Team. She joined UN Women in 2010 to work on its flagship report Progress of the World’s Women. Before that, she was part of the research and writing team for UNDP’s 2009 Human Development Report: Overcoming barriers: Human mobility and development. She holds a master’s degree in international relations from the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University and a master’s degree in public administration from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University.

Gino Brunswijck is currently senior policy and advocacy officer at the European Network on Debt and Development (but the views expressed here are personal views, not those of his organization), having previously worked at the Africa Europe Faith and Justice Network and the College of Europe.

Ginya Truitt Nakata is the operations senior speclialist in the Office of Outreach and Partnerships at the Inter-American Development Bank. She developsand implements high-level partnership engagement strategies for food security, trade and integration, and broadband connectivity with those of the fast growing number of NGOs, foundations, private sector organizations and alliances, as well as development actors operating throughout the Latin American and Caribbean region.

Giovanni Castaldo supports the Center for Effective Global Action's Measurement Initiative. Previously, he collaborated with a university journal of international affairs and interned at Agoravox. He gained research experience as an RA on a variety of projects. Specifically, he worked on tracking world-wide local government sizes and studying the effects of graduation prices in Italian universities.