Dr. Justine Uvuza is a senior land policy advisor, gender at Landesa. Landesa is a nonprofit organization that partners with governments and local organizations to secure legal land rights for the world’s poorest families.

Justinus Kriswantoro is the head of traceability and verification at Golden Agri-Resources. He is responsible for leading traceability projects, influencing suppliers to implement traceability, monitoring and verifying deforestation, and collaborating with other stakeholders. He has more than 25 years of experience in remote sensing, geographic information systems, and mapping.

As European commissioner for international partnerships, Jutta Urpilainen oversees the European Commission’s work on international cooperation and sustainable development. Before joining the commission, Urpilainen served as a member of the Finnish Parliament. In 2008, she became the first woman leader of the Social Democratic Party of Finland. She then served as Finland’s deputy prime minister and finance minister. During that time, she became closely involved in development issues, joining the Development Committee of the World Bank Group and IMF and chairing the Finnish National Commission on Sustainable Development. She then served as the foreign minister’s special representative on mediation and chaired the Finnish National Commission for UNESCO.

Jyotsna “Jo” Puri is the associate vice president of the strategy and knowledge department at International Fund for Agricultural Development. She leads the organization’s strategy work in IFAD’s key areas targeting agriculture, climate, gender, nutrition, youth, and social inclusion. This article does not represent the views of the organization, its staff, or its executive board and member states.

Dr. K. Zaman is a senior scientist and epidemiologist at icddr,b — a leading health and biomedical research center based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He has spent over 33 years conducting community-based epidemiological research and clinical trials among some of the most resource-deprived populations in the "global south." He is currently the principal investigator of multiple vaccine studies in Bangladesh, including vaccines for rotavirus, influenza, hepatitis E, Japanese encephalitis and polio.

Kaakpema Yelpaala is a social entrepreneur with several years of experience in global health and international development, working in both the private and nonprofit sectors. He has founded two social enterprises in his career: access.mobile, a mobile health enterprise he currently leads, and a nonprofit that worked on rural health programs in Ghana and Tanzania in partnership with health ministries and other stakeholders.

Kaarina Immonen is the U.N. resident coordinator and UNDP representative in Laos. She began her career in the United Nations in 1990. Her most recent appointment before her arrival to Laos was as deputy special representative of the secretary-general for the U.N. Integrated Peacebuilding Office in the Central African Republic, a post she held from December 2012 to early 2014. She also served as U.N. resident coordinator and humanitarian coordinator during her time in the Central African Republic. She has also worked in Moldova, Russian Federation, Georgia, Cambodia and Vietnam.

Kaddu Kiwe Sebunya is chief executive officer at the African Wildlife Foundation, where he is leading the vision of an Africa where human development includes thriving wildlife and extensive wild lands as a cultural and economic asset for the continent’s future generations. He has over 20 years’ experience in conservation at grassroots, national, and regional levels in the U.S., Africa, and Europe.

Kaitlin Love is a project manager coordinating global public sector research for Ipsos Public Affairs in Washington, D.C.