Dr. Jorge Saavedra is the executive director of the AHF Global Public Health Institute and AHF Mexico. A Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México medical graduate with two master’s degrees from Harvard, he's also led Mexico's National AIDS Program and Clinica Condesa, the largest HIV clinic in Latin America.

Jorge Moreira da Silva has been the executive director of UNOPS since April 2023. He has over 20 years of experience working on climate change, energy, and environment in the public and development sectors. He was previously the director of the Development Co-operation Directorate at OECD and Portugal’s minister for the environment, territorial planning, and energy, among other roles.

Jorge Valencia is a freelance journalist based in Bogotá, Colombia. He previously covered Latin America from Mexico City for public radio in the United States. A 2023 fellow with the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University, he has also reported from Arizona, North Carolina, and Virginia.

Jose Villalon is corporate sustainability director at Nutreco.

José Szapocznik is professor and chair emeritus of public health sciences and director of the Public Health Policy Lab at the University of Miami School of Medicine. He founded the Panel for a Global Public Health Convention and was the senior author of the Lancet Public Health article that guides its work.

José Tissier is deputy director of Agence Française de Développement's agriculture, rural development and biodiversity division — a position he has held since early 2010. In 1993, Tissier joined Caisse Française de Développement where he successively held positions as head of agricultural and rural development in Yaoundé, Rabat and Ouagadougou. At the end of 2006, he joined AFD’s headquarters in Paris as chief project engineer.

Jose Viera is chief executive officer of the World Blind Union (but the views in this piece are personal views, not those of the Union). He has also worked as Latin America Coordinator for Disability Rights Promotion International, and as a consultant to the UNCRPD Committee Secretariat, and as associate professor of the International Relations Department at the Siglo 21 University in Cordoba, Argentina.

Josea Rono, Ph.D., is the managing partner at E&K Consulting Firm, an advisory and investment firm in the health, finance, innovation and renewable energy sectors. His work on the first malaria vaccine was featured by Time Magazine and he is among the Top 100 Most Influential Personalities of African Descent.

Sef Cagoco served as one of Devex's international development correspondent from mid-2008 to mid-2009. Her writing focused on social entrepreneurship and multilateral agencies such as the U.N. and Asian Development Bank. She previously worked as senior reporter for the national daily BusinessWorld and a production journalist for the Financial Times.

Ambassador Josefa Sacko is a leading African agronomist and commissioner for agriculture, rural development, blue economy, and sustainable development at the African Union Commission. Prior to her reelection in 2021, she was special adviser to the Angolan minister of environment and climate change — and adviser to the minister of agriculture in charge of food security and poverty reduction. Sacko was also the former secretary-general of the Inter-African Coffee Organization for 13 years.