Amir Mahmoud Abdulla is deputy executive director of the World Food Programme.

Amit Bhatia is CEO of the Global Steering Group for Impact Investment, which holds its annual Impact Summit in New Delhi this October.

Amita Mehrotra is a senior technical advisor for capacity strengthening at FHI 360 and supports capacity strengthening activities across the HIV department including for the USAID flagship HIV and global health security project, Meeting Targets and Maintaining Epidemic Control, or EpiC. She has been with FHI 360 for over 15 years and in that time has collaborated with a wide range of partners across the globe and authored numerous capacity strengthening tools and resources. Mehrotra has a master's in Public Health from The George Washington University.

Amitabh Behar is the permanent executive director of Oxfam International, before which he was CEO of Oxfam India. He is passionate about governance accountability, social and economic equality, and citizen participation. Over the years, he has worked on building people-centric campaigns, alliances for social justice, and linking microactivism to macrochanges. Behar is one of the leading experts in people-centered advocacy and is the chair of the board of the Navsarjan Trust.

Amitabh Kant is presently the G-20 Sherpa of India. He previously served as the CEO of NITI Aayog (National Institution for Transforming India) — the Government of India’s premier policy think tank and prior to that as secretary of the Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion. Kant is a member of the Indian Administrative Service. He is the author of “Branding India — An Incredible Story,” “Incredible India 2.0,” and has edited “The Path Ahead: Transformative Ideas for India."

Amjad Saleem is a development practitioner. He is a research fellow at the Faculty of Education in the Universiti Malaya, Malaysia, and a nonresident fellow at the Centre for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies, Doha. He has edited journal articles, book chapters, and the book "The Story of Aceh: Insights" and the recently published "Routledge Handbook on Contemporary Sri Lanka."

Ammal Awadallah, is a women’s activist who has been working in the NGO sector for more than two decades. She began working with the Palestinian Family Planning and Protection Association in mid-2006 and has been the executive director since 2019. She is known to be passionate about women’s rights, particularly regarding sexual reproductive health and rights, through her work at the association.

Amolo Ng'weno is the CEO of BFA Global based in Nairobi, Kenya. Her recent areas of interest include the changing nature of work in low- and middle-income countries with the growth of the digital economy, and how technology can be harnessed to provide micro-entrepreneurs with the financial and technical tools for growth.

Amruta Byatnal is a Senior Editor at Devex where she edits coverage on global development, humanitarian crises and international aid. She writes Devex CheckUp, a weekly newsletter on the latest developments in global health. Previously, she worked for News Deeply in the United States, and The Hindu in India. She is a graduate of Cornell University where she studied international development. She is currently based in New Delhi.

Amy Booth is a freelance journalist based in Cochabamba, Bolivia. Her reporting focuses on development in Bolivia. She has written for The Guardian, New Internationalist, Bolivian Express, Latin Correspondent, and others. When she's not writing, she is an instructor in a youth arts foundation.