Juan Pablo Solís Víquez is Fairtrade’s senior adviser for climate and environment. Before joining Fairtrade, Juan Pablo worked for Hivos and was appointed manager of the InterAmerican Development Bank Lab’s SAFE platform. He holds an economic policies M.Sc. from the National University of Costa Rica, with emphasis on ecologic economy and sustainable development, complemented by specialized training in human rights, gender equity, value chains, green business, landscape restoration, microfinance, and sustainable development goals. More than 17 years in the sustainability sector have led him to work and live in Africa, Latin America, Asia, and the Pacific.

Judd Devermont is director of the Africa program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He previously served as U.S. national intelligence officer for Africa, the CIA’s senior political analyst on sub-Saharan Africa, and National Security Council director for Somalia, Nigeria, the Sahel, and the African Union.

Judith Diment is the coordinator of the polio eradication advocacy task force at Rotary International and U.K. national advocacy adviser for polio. For more than 20 years, she has advocated for polio eradication and organized many polio advocacy and media events at the Houses of Parliament and the European Parliament.

Judith Robb-McCord is the director of PCI’s Every Preemie — SCALE program funded through USAID. Judith has twenty years of international public health experience with a focus on maternal, newborn and child health. She worked with USAID in Kenya, Eritrea, Côte d'Ivoire and Ethiopia. Judith was the director of Jhpiego's Maternal & Neonatal Health Program​; and was the regional director of PATH's Malaria Control and Evaluation Program in Africa. Learn more about PCI at www.PCIGlobal.org.

Judith Rodin is the president of the Rockefeller Foundation, one of the world’s leading philanthropic organizations. Prior to the Rockefeller Foundation, she was the president of the University of Pennsylvania, and provost of Yale University. She was the first woman named to lead an Ivy League Institution and is the first woman to serve as the Rockefeller Foundation’s president in its nearly 100-year history. Dr. Rodin is the author of more than 200 academic articles and has written or co-written 12 books and has received 18 honorary degrees and serves as a member of the board for several leading corporations and non-profits.

Judith Smit is the global lead for rice fortification at DSM. For the past seven years, her work has been around making rice more nutritious to improve public health. She does this by leveraging the available scientific expertise and DSM’s partnerships to reach three billion people globally who are in need of better nutritional provision and consume rice daily and suffer from micronutrient deficiencies. Before joining DSM Nutrition Improvement in 2015, she worked for the U.N. World Food Programmebased in Bangkok, with a focus on scaling up rice fortification activities in the region.

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.