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.

Gordon Conway is director of agriculture for Impact and a professor of international development at Imperial College London. Gordon was chief scientific adviser to the Department for International Development from 2005 to 2009. Previously he was president of The Rockefeller Foundation and vice-chancellor of the University of Sussex.

Dr. Gottfried Hirnschall is the director of the HIV/AIDS Department and the Global Hepatitis Program of the World Health Organization. He leads the organization's work in development and implementation of cutting-edge normative policies and guidance, and of technical support to countries to scale up national responses to HIV and Hepatitis. As of December 2013, he oversees the Global Hepatitis Program which coordinates the organization’s response to viral hepatitis.

Grace Hollister is responsible for strategic management and technical oversight of Evidence Action’s Deworm the World Initiative. She also works with a variety of partners to expand opportunities for school-based deworming programs globally.

Graham Glenday is professor of the practice of public policy at the Duke Center for International Development at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy. He came to Duke in July 2001 from Harvard University, where he was director of the Public Finance Group in the Kennedy School of Government and earlier in the Harvard Institute for International Development. He has over 25 years of international professional experience in public finance, acting as an advisor in tax policy reform, public investment management and other fiscal matters to over 30 countries.