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.

Julia Rohrer is a poject manager in Dalberg’s New York office focused on global health. She has advised companies, foundations, multilateral agencies, and NGOs on strategic planning, impact evaluation, and the development of multistakeholder partnerships.

Julia Roig is the president of Partners for Democratic Change, an international organization committed to building sustainable capacity to advance civil society, democratic institutions and a culture of change and conflict management worldwide.

Dr. Julia Zulver is a research affiliate at Ladysmith. She is also a Marie Sklodowska-Curie research fellow at the National Autonomous University of Mexico and the University of Oxford (2020-2023). Her work focuses on women’s high-risk mobilization in Latin America.

Júlia Gouveia is a climate change and emergencies specialist at Plan International Brazil, and associate researcher at the Research Group on Political Economy of World-Systems (GPEPSM, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil).