J K Raman is the country director, India for the Micronutrient Initiative. In this role, he leads the overall functioning of MI in India, including development, design and management of MI’s country programs. He is also responsible for advocacy and resource development in the country. Raman brings more than 25 years of experience working in the social development sector across a range of issues, such as public health, rural development, and community empowerment and others.

Joachim von Braun is the director of The Center for Development Research (ZEF) at the University of Bonn. He is an agricultural economist and holds a doctoral degree from the University of Gӧttingen, Germany. His published research addresses international development economics including science and technology, policy issues of trade and aid, poverty and famine and health, and nutrition. He serves on boards of publishers of journals, as well as international advisory bodies of research and policy organizations.

Born in Barcelona, Dr. Joan Clos joined the United Nations in 2010 as under-secretary-general and executive director of UN-Habitat. He is also the secretary-general of the Third U.N. Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development, Habitat III. He is a medical doctor with a distinguished career in public service and diplomacy. He was twice elected mayor of Barcelona during the years 1997-2006. He was also the minister of industry, tourism and trade of Spain from 2006-2008. He served as Spanish ambassador to Turkey and Azerbaijan prior to joining UN-Habitat.

Joan Larrea is the CEO of Convergence and an expert in catalyzing investment in places that need it most. She has close to 30 years of experience in emerging markets investing, including at the defunct U.S. Overseas Private Investment Corporation (now the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation), the Global Environment Fund, and the International Finance Corporation. Since 2016, Joan’s leadership has driven Convergence to become a global independent authority for blended finance. As CEO, Joan ensures Convergence continues to grow the field of blended finance through its products and services and accelerates the flow of private capital into SDG projects across Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

Joan Mower is the director of development and international media training at the Broadcasting Board of Governors which oversees Voice of America, RFE/RL, RFA and the Middle East Broadcasting Network. She specializes in media projects in Africa, Asia and Latin America and oversees special broadcasting in Zimbabwe, South Sudan, Ivory Coast, Angola, Mozambique, Senegal, DRC, Nigeria, Tanzania and Burundi.

Joanna Bichsel is the CEO and co-founder of Kasha, an e-commerce company in East Africa offering confidential access to women’s health and personal care products like contraceptives and menstrual care. Kasha serves women of all socioeconomic levels across urban and rural areas of Rwanda and Kenya. Prior to starting Kasha, Joanna was the principal technology adviser for global development at the Gates Foundation, working across East and West Africa and South Asia on technology strategies and solutions to optimize the supply chain of vaccines, family planning, and other public health commodities, also on health services delivery, agriculture and fintech. Joanna lives in Kenya with her husband and two young children.

Joanna Immig is coordinator of the National Toxics Network, a freelance writer and photographer.

Joanna Lindner is the head of policy for aid and development effectiveness at the Australian Council for International Development (ACFID). She was previously the senior advocacy adviser and humanitarian coordinator with ACFID and has worked with members of all parties within the Australian Parliament at the Australian Reproductive Health Alliance where she led advocacy on women's empowerment, gender equality and sexual and reproductive health and rights. Prior to that she worked with the Asian South Pacific Association for Basic and Adult Education.

Joanna Mott has more than 20 years’ experience in international development, starting in 1995 at Puntos de Encuentro, a feminist rights-based NGO in Nicaragua. She has since worked on a range of NGO and government development programs in different countries. Her specialization in gender equality and social inclusion, or GESI, and WASH began in early 2000 in East Timor with Oxfam Australia and later with a rural WASH program of the Australian government. Joanna is currently a GESI adviser on the Water for Women Fund coordinator team.

Dr. Joanne Peter is a director of social innovation within Johnson & Johnson’s Global Community Impact team, with a focus on harnessing the power of technology to support and champion health workers at the frontlines of care. She manages a portfolio of scaled mobile messaging programs — including mMitra in India and MomConnect in South Africa — which have collectively reached over 6 million low-income mothers with vital health information since 2010.