Khaldoun AbouAssi is an assistant professor of public administration and policy at American University’s School of Public Affairs and an affiliated faculty of AU’s Center for Innovation. His research interests include organizational capacity, NGO-donor relations, inter-organizational and cross-sector collaboration, and citizen or beneficiary engagement with organizations. His work appears in leading journals on public and nonprofit management.

Khaliun Bayartsogt is a Mongolian journalist, and one of the few who covers her country in English. She often writes about human rights and social justice including women’s issues, child protection, and minority groups.

Hon. Khanyisile Litchfield-Tshabalala is a former member of South African Parliament, a retired rear admiral in the South African Navy and chairperson of the African Parliamentarians Network on Illicit Financial Flows.

Professor Khong Yuen Foong is Li Ka Shing Professor of Political Science at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy.

Khudejha Asghar is the primary prevention adviser at the International Rescue Committee. She is a mixed-methods public health researcher focused on preventing and responding to gender-based violence in humanitarian settings, with 10 years of experience supporting projects in Colombia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Pakistan, Myanmar, and the United States. She is pursuing a doctorate at Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Kieran Guilbert is a freelance journalist specializing in human rights coverage. He has worked for the Thomson Reuters Foundation and The Independent in England and Senegal, with a focus on humanitarian issues, migration, and modern-day slavery.

Kim Beazley is Australia’s ambassador to the United States. A former member of the parliament from 1980-2007, he led the Labor Party from 1996-2001 and again in 2005-2006, when he retired from parliament after losing the leadership to Kevin Rudd, who would become prime minister a year later. Beazley also served as minister in the governments of prime ministers Bob Hawke and Paul Keating, most notably deputy prime minister under Keating in 1995-1996.

Kim Bettcher leads the Center for International Private Enterprise’s knowledge management initiative, which captures lessons learned in democratic and economic institution-building around the world. Bettcher holds a Ph.D. in political science from Johns Hopkins University and a bachelor’s degree from Harvard College.

Kim Bradford Smith is the senior statistics and evidence lead at the U.K. Department for International Development.

As director of community strategy at Humentum, Kim Kucinskas’ role focuses on tapping into the power of Humentum’s sector-wide network. To achieve results, she focuses on building networks and communities of practice between practitioners, leaders, and industry partners, helping to create connections between strategy and practical operations. Kim is responsible for Humentum’s knowledge management portfolio and contributes to the organization’s data, benchmarking, and thought leadership. Her priority is to support individuals to be more effective in their work, and organizations to be prepared for the future.