Jonathan Simons is the director of policy at the Varkey Foundation where he has been since 2017. Previously, Jonathan was head of education at the U.K. think tank Policy Exchange, and has also worked in No. 10 Downing Street as an education adviser in the administrations of both Gordon Brown and David Cameron.

Jonathan Stack is an Emmy Award-winning and two-time Academy Award-nominated documentary filmmaker. In 1991 he founded Gabriel Films and has since produced over 50 films in the U.S. and abroad. He has released several films theatrically and shown his work major festivals including Sundance, where he won the Grand Jury Prize in 1998. He founded World Vasectomy Day with Dr. Doug Stein to inspire men worldwide to be part of the most important decision of our lives.

Jonathan Tanner is head of communications at the Tony Blair Africa Governance Initiative, where among other things he produces their podcast. He previously worked at the Overseas Development Institute and can be found on Twitter at @tannerjc.

Jonathan Nash has over 20 years of experience in international project development and management. As a managing director at the Millennium Challenge Corp.’s Department of Compact Operations, Jonathan is responsible for managing the infrastructure, environment and private sector division that oversees a $5 billion global portfolio of economic growth projects.

Jonathan T.M. Reckford is chief executive officer of Habitat for Humanity International, a nonprofit Christian housing organization that, since 1976, has helped more than 5 million people construct, rehabilitate or preserve homes in more than 70 countries. Jonathan serves on the boards of InterAction, the Stanford Graduate School of Business, the Duke Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship and Industrial Heat. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Urban Steering Committee for the World Economic Forum.

Jordan Chamberlin worked as an assistant professor in the Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics at Michigan State University before accepting a long-term assignment as a research fellow at the Indaba Agricultural Policy Research Institute in Lusaka, Zambia. Chamberlin currently conducts collaborative research and training on microeconomic analysis of small-holder livelihoods in Zambia and elsewhere in sub-Saharan Africa. He started his work in rural development as a Peace Corps volunteer in Paraguay.

Jordan Smith is a communications associate at the United States Global Leadership Coalition.

Jorge Barragan is the International Youth Foundation´s executive vice president for programs, based in the Latin American region in IYF's Mexico office. He has 20 years of experience in the design, implementation, and evaluation of labor market solutions in Latin America and previously served as the director of the National Public Employment Service in Mexico.

Jorge Coarasa is a senior economist with the health, nutrition and population global practice of the World Bank. Based in New Delhi, Jorge manages a portfolio of state- and central-level projects focused on health systems strengthening and disease control. He also conducts analytical work and provides advice to governments on health financing, service delivery and the role of the private sector in health systems.