Jonathan Papoulidis is vice president at Food for the Hungry. He previously served with the United Nations, including in Indonesia as U.N. coordinator for Aceh, in Liberia with U.N. peacekeeping, and with UNOCHA at headquarters and in Africa and Asia. He has held appointments as a fellow and visiting scholar at Stanford University, Columbia University, and York University’s Center for Refugee Studies. He has a master’s degree in international relations from the University of Cambridge.

Jonathan Phillips joined Duke's Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions in October 2017 as director of Duke University's Energy Access Project. He was the senior advisor to the president and CEO of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation during the Obama administration. In this role, he helped manage operations of the 400-person development finance institution, scaling-up the agency's climate finance capabilities and leading the implementation of strategic initiatives, including the agency’s $2.1 billion engagement in Power Africa. Before that, Phillips served as the deputy lead of the private sector team with Power Africa at the U.S. Agency for International Development, helping ramp-up the $300 million presidential initiative into one of the largest public-private development partnerships in the world with more than $54 billion in investment commitments.

Jonathan Quick is president and chief executive officer of Management Sciences for Health, a non-profit global health organization that develops sustainable health systems in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. Quick is also a faculty member at Harvard Medical School and chair of the Global Health Council. Prior to joining MSH, he was the director of Essential Drugs & Medicines Policy at the World Health Organization.

Jonathan Said is head of the Tony Blair Institute’s Inclusive Growth and Private Sector Development Practice, which groups almost 20 embedded advisers working across five African countries on economic transformation.

Jonathan Shaw is the founder and CEO of Kivu Green Energy, a renewable energy developer in eastern Democractic Republic of the Congo. KGE is the first Congolese-founded startup to receive a Series A round of investment, the first to bring a solar hybrid mini-grid online in Congo, and is currently deploying the largest off-grid solar hybrid mini-grid in Africa.

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.