Joel B. Smith is principal at Abt Associates. He has been analyzing climate change impacts and adaptation issues for more than 25 years. Prior to coming to Abt, Smith was a coordinating lead author or lead author on the Third, Fourth, and Fifth Assessment Reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and a member of the U.S. National Climate Change Assessment Federal Advisory Committee and was a member of the National Academy of Sciences “Panel on Adapting to the Impacts of Climate Change.”

Joel Spicer is the president of the Micronutrient Initiative, a global nutrition organization that reaches 500 million people in more than 70 countries every year. Spicer has a background in public health and have worked previously with UNICEF, WHO, and the World Bank.

Joel Spicer is the president and CEO of Nutrition International, a global organization dedicated to delivering proven nutrition interventions to those who need them most. Founded in 1992, Nutrition International works with countries, donors, and implementers, conducts cutting-edge nutrition research, supports policy formulation, and integrates nutrition into development programs in over 60 countries. Joel is committed to growing Nutrition International’s impact through stronger programs, new approaches, and a no-missed-opportunities mindset.

Joel Turner is a program officer at IREX and works on Beyond Access projects in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Mali and Myanmar. Joel was previously based in Namibia, but is now based in Washington, D.C.

Joelle Jackson is a conscious leadership coach with 19 years of experience in helping global citizens overcome the status quo. Her desire to see more individuals unleash their potential and become "the change they want to see in the world," compelled her in 2013 to enter the realm of professional coaching. Joelle’s niche, conscious leadership, entails leading our thoughts, emotions, and actions consciously, and moving out of default modes of thinking, feeling and acting that keep us stuck in the status quo.

Joe Parkin Daniels is a British journalist based in Bogotá, Colombia, where he covers human rights, the country's internal conflict, and health.

Johan Swinnen is the director general of the International Food Policy Research Institute and managing director of CGIAR’s Systems Transformation Action Area. Swinnen has published extensively on agricultural and food policies, international development, political economy, institutional reforms, trade, and global value chains. His recent book, “The Political Economy of Agricultural and Food Policies,” received the 2019 Book Award from the European Association of Agricultural Economists.

Johanna is a scholar-in-residence at American University’s School of International Service and a senior advisor with the Stimson Center’s Managing Across Boundaries Initiative. She helped to found USAID’s Office of Transition Initiatives and served in a variety of high-level functions within the U.S. government, World Bank and U.N. Foundation, among others. Most recently, she co-directed the Center for Strategic and International Studies' post-conflict reconstruction project.

Johanna Morden is a community development worker by training and a global development journalist by profession. As a former Devex staff writer based in Manila, she covered the Asian Development Bank as well as Asia-Pacific's aid community at large. Johanna has written for a variety of international publications, covering social issues, disasters, government, ICT, business, and the law.

Johanna Ralston is the CEO of the World Obesity Federation and Executive in Residence at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy. Prior to this, Johanna was CEO of the World Heart Federation and vice chair of the NCD Alliance.