Judith A. Hermanson, Ph.D., is the director of the International Cooperative Research Group, the research and learning arm of the U.S. Overseas Cooperative Development Council. As director, she leads OCDC’s research activities that seek to develop evidence about the effectiveness of the cooperative business model and to enhance learning to improve program design and impact. Her career in international development includes leadership roles in several international cooperative development, U.S. civil society organizations as well as having been a tenured university faculty member.

Judy Stenmark is the director general of the Global Self-Care Federation. Since taking up the role in 2018, she has overseen the restructuring and rebranding of the organization and implemented a new direction: The Future of Self-Care Strategy. Stenmark has had a long-standing career leading global and national NGOs in the musculoskeletal arena, with an eight-year tenure as head of the International Osteoporosis Foundation in Nyon, Switzerland. Before that she led Osteoporosis Australia for nine years.

Julia Atiyeh is a Swedish-Syrian journalist. She has reported in English, Swedish and Arabic from Europe and Lebanon, and her love for traveling and global policy has allowed her to live in Scandinavia, New York and the Middle East.

Julia Bunting is the president of the Population Council, a global organization that conducts research to address critical health and development issues. She is widely known for her path-breaking work on reproductive and maternal health during her 12-year tenure at the U.K. Department for International Development, where she oversaw the government's international development policy on HIV and AIDS; maternal, newborn, and child health; sexual and reproductive health and rights; and population.

As senior manager for mobile for development insights at the GSMA, Julia Burchell leads the GSMA National Dialogue initiative, which convenes mobile industry leadership and senior policymakers to identify how closer public-private collaboration at a national level can help progress towards the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. She has been with the GSMA for eight years, driving innovation projects that aim to achieve both commercial and social impact at scale. She specialised in gender and mobile before leading research into mobile value added services and industry partnerships. Julia has a strong background in corporate communications, having previously represented organisations across the telecommunications, utilities, accountancy and law industries.

Julia Davies is head of environmental sciences at the School of Animal, Rural and Environmental Sciences at Nottingham Trent University in the United Kingdom. Her interests are multidisciplinary and involve agriculture and the environment. She currently lectures in global food security.

Julia Firestone is social impact partnerships manager at Pearson, working to build a strong cross-sector coalition of literacy actors to ensure that literacy is at the forefront of the global agenda. Previously Julia has worked across digital platforms to develop locally relevant content for youth in India, and served as director of operations for Impact Network, designing and implementing an e-learning model in rural Zambia. Julia has a master’s degree from Teachers College of Columbia University and a bachelor’s degree from Hampshire College.

Julia Gillard is the former prime minister of Australia and current chair of the Board of Directors at the Global Partnership for Education and distinguished fellow at the Brookings Institution. Both organizations are headquartered in Washington, D.C.

Julia Hochberger is a global health advocate specializing in human rights at Wemos, an international civil society organization advocating global health justice. She advocates for meaningful youth engagement in the financing and design of sexual and reproductive health and rights policies and health services.

Julia Lalla-Maharajh founded Orchid Project in 2011 with a vision of a world free of female genital cutting (FGC). She has received numerous awards for her work and received an OBE in 2017.