Amanda McClelland, senior vice president of Prevent Epidemics and Resolve to Save Lives, is a leading voice in global public health education — both in times of war and peace. She is a registered nurse who has served as a front-line health worker during the West Africa Ebola outbreak and is today a leader in educating public health systems around the world on how to mount a full-spectrum response to epidemics and pandemics.

Amanda Meyer is a director at Global Impact, where she specializes in strategic planning for social impact programs of international nonprofits and corporations. Seven years with the firm, she works closely with the executive team on a number of organizational priorities including revenue diversification, product incubation, and thought leadership.

Amanda Slagle is a certified global nurse consultant through the International Council of Nurses and a certified professional in health care quality from the National Association for Healthcare Quality. She is passionate about accelerating positive patient outcomes in health care by advancing the role of professional nurses and stimulating improvement in health systems.

Amanda Willett is president and CEO of Crown Agents USA. Crown Agents is an award-winning international development social enterprise, established in 1833. Its work reaches over 120 million people in 50 countries, with expertise in public sector transformation, humanitarian and stabilization, procurement reform, last mile supply chain, health system strengthening, and training and professional development. Amanda has over 20 years’ international development experience working on governance, political transition, post-conflict recovery, and humanitarian relief projects.

Amanda Kee is the content marketing assistant manager at AVPN.

Amani Aruri is a human rights activist committed to supporting youth, women and girls in the Palestinian territories and the Middle East and North Africa region. Amani brings more than 10 years’ experience advancing gender justice, human rights, and peace and security agendas working with civil society organizations, collectives and networks, public and private foundations, and U.N. agencies.

Douale assumed duties as ambassador of Djibouti to the United States and permanent representative of Djibouti to the United Nations in 2016. Before that he was the ambassador of Djibouti to the United Nations, World Trade Organization, and Switzerland. He was actively involved and a part of various committees that worked in preparation for the Somalia National Peace Conference and served as a special envoy to the Sudan peace process.

The son of a Congolese diplomat and statesman, Serge Mombouli was appointed ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of the Republic of Congo to the United States of America in 2001. An expert in corporate law and business negotiations, he previously served as Congo’s chargé d’ affaires to the U.S. after a career in the private sector. He has been the dean of the African Diplomatic Corps since 2015.

Ambassador Tony P. Hall is the executive director emeritus of the Alliance to End Hunger in Washington, D.C. Prior to the Alliance, he served 24 years as a United States congressman from Ohio, followed by 4 years as the U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Agencies for Food and Agriculture in Rome.

Amber Ehrke is a program coordinator at IREX, working on Beyond Access communications and supporting the project in Myanmar.