Katherine Ellis is director of youth at the Commonwealth Secretariat. With over 20 years in the private, public and civil society sectors with extensive expertise in youth development, organizational leadership and cross-sectoral collaboration, she is responsible for promoting the social, political and economic empowerment of young people across the 53 Commonwealth member countries.

Katherine Marshall has worked for over four decades on international development, focusing on the world’s lowest-income countries. A senior fellow at Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs and professor of the practice of development, religion, and conflict in the School of Foreign Service, she is executive director at the World Faiths Development Dialogue, whose mission is to bridge gulfs separating the worlds of development and religion. Previously, she worked for 35 years at the World Bank as an operational manager.

Katherine Tan is an international development professional, specializing in private sector development. She has worked in the public sector, private sector, and NGOs and most recently as a Bankers without Borders fellow at the Grameen Foundation in Washington, D.C., She writes on topics pertaining to development innovation and social enterprise.

Katherine Wachala is the director of the environment portfolio for the international development group at RTI International. As a biodiversity conservation and natural resource management professional the past 20 years, Kathy has lived and worked in Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean, specializing on climate change mitigation and adaptation, resilience, key species conservation, and countering wildlife trafficking. She is always seeking opportunities for multisector integration in implementation and using the “One Health” approach in the conservation space.

Kathleen Buckingham is a research associate for forest and landscape restoration at the World Resources Institute. Her research focuses on assisting stakeholders to plan and implement successful forest and landscape restoration strategies. She has a PhD in Geography and the Environment from the University of Oxford, an MSc Environmental Sustainability from the University of Edinburgh, and has extensive country experience in China.

Kathleen Enright has focused on making the philanthropic sector more vital, open, and effective for more than two decades. Widely respected as a mission-driven leader and coalition builder, she joined the Council on Foundations as president and CEO in 2019.

Kathleen O’Dell is a senior manager with Deloitte Consulting and has 16 years of international development experience in clean energy, energy efficiency, private sector development and the gender-energy nexus. Kathleen is currently Project Manager for the USAID Catalyzing Clean Energy in Bangladesh project, which aims to scale up adoption of clean cookstoves and industrial energy efficiency, as well as a USAID program that is driving investment into sub-Saharan Africa in the energy sector.

Kathleen Sherwin is the outgoing iCEO and executive adviser at Women Deliver. She served as interim president and CEO for two years, beginning in June 2020. She previously served as Women Deliver’s chief operating officer and senior adviser. Kathleen is a core member of the Equal Measures 2030 Leadership Council; a board member alternate for The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health; a board member of the Adolescent Girls Investment Plan; and an adviser for the Women’s Health Initiative and the World Economic Forum. She was among the 2021 and 2022 International Gender Champions. Kathleen has an executive MBA from New York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business.

Kathryn Falb is a senior research adviser at the International Rescue Committee’s Airbel Impact Lab, a hub for research and innovation. She leads IRC’s portfolio on understanding what works to prevent violence against women, adolescent girls, and children in humanitarian settings, as well as research on the experiences of LGBTQ survivors of conflict and displacement. She is trained as a social epidemiologist and has conducted research in diverse humanitarian settings including the Raqqa Governorate, Syria, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, and Myanmar.

Kathryn Irwin is head of Christian Aid’s international and donor communications unit. She manages the SMS Voices project for Christian Aid.