Karim Aziz is a consultant at Dalberg Advisors. He formerly worked as an economist at the Minister of Finance's Office in Egypt where he advised the minister on fiscal reforms and worked on the formulation of Egypt’s Five Year Macroeconomic Framework and Strategy. He holds a master of public policy from the University of Oxford and is a scholar at the University of Cambridge.

Karima Ladhani is the assistant director of program research and development of the Harvard Ministerial Leadership Program where she leads development and implementation of in-country support for ministries of health and education. She brings expertise in health and education systems strengthening, social innovation, as well as strategic planning and development from international experience across Africa and Asia. She is also the founder & CEO of Barakat Bundle, an award-winning social enterprise that creates life-saving care and education bundles for mothers and newborns in South Asia.

Karin Lexén is director of SIWI’s World Water Week, and its prizes, including the Stockholm Water Prize and Stockholm Junior Water Prize. She leads SIWI’s engagement on international processes, such as the UN’s development goals and the global climate policy processes, driving SIWI’s advocacy of water issues in the international environmental politics arena.

Karin Nilsson is the executive director of SheDecides — a global political movement standing up for sexual and reproductive health and rights for all. She holds 20 years of expertise working in international development cooperation and global policy on gender equality, human rights, health, education, and research within the U.N., civil society organizations, and governmental partnerships —with a particular focus on abortion, comprehensive sexuality education, and young people’s SRHR.

Karin Christiansen is the founding CEO and patron of Publish What You Fund. She was previously general secretary of the Co-operative Party and currently also chair of the Open Knowledge Foundation. Before setting up Publish What You Fund, Karin worked as a policy manager at ONE and research fellow at the Overseas Development Institute. In 2011, Karin was named as one of the Devex London 40 Under 40 International Development Leaders.

Karina Gonçalves David is an agroforestry organic farmer in Brazil. In 2013, she co-founded ProNobis Agroflorestal, a project that involves food production in agroforestry systems on a farm in southern Brazil. She facilitates courses and lectures on agroforestry, Participatory Guarantee System, or PGS, shiitake mushroom production, organic farming, and agroecology. She is a part of the PGS of the Ecovida Network and is the director of the southern region of the Organic Brazil Institute.

Karina Kloos is an advocacy program manager and has worked at the intersection between research and advocacy for the past ten years, with a PhD in sociology. Currently she is helping to guide Landesa's work examining the links between climate change and land rights.

Karin Costa Vazquez is an international adviser and researcher specialized in international cooperation for development, strategic planning and operations. She has worked with the World Bank, U.N. Development Program, and the Brazilian Ministry of External Relations, and published extensively on BRICS's contribution to the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals.

Karl Hofmann is president and CEO of Population Services International, a Washington, D.C.-based global health nonprofit focused on family planning and reproductive health, malaria, child survival, HIV, maternal and child health, and NCDs. Before joining the organization in 2007, he was a career U.S. diplomat for 23 years, serving as ambassador to Togo, executive secretary of the Department of State and deputy chief of mission at the U.S. embassy in Paris.

Karl Hofmann is the president and CEO of Population Services International, a nonprofit global health organization based in Washington, D.C. PSI operates in over 50 countries worldwide with programs in family planning and reproductive health; malaria; water and sanitation; HIV; and noncommunicable diseases. For nearly 50 years, PSI has measurably improved the health of people in the developing world, making it easier for them to lead healthier lives and plan the families they desire.