Kongkona Sarma is the principal consultant of DAI’s Economic Growth Group, where she provides advisory support to DAI’s portfolio of economic growth programs — primarily in the areas of investment facilitation, market systems development, and business environment feform. She has 15 years of experience working in the financial sector and strategy consulting across a range of economic development issues for governments and corporate clients in developing country contexts.

Professor Kovin Naidoo is the global head of advocacy and partnerships at OneSight EssilorLuxottica Foundation and the former CEO of the Brien Holden Vision Institute. He is an academic, former anti-apartheid activist and political prisoner, optometrist and an internationally celebrated public health leader. His professional life has been dedicated to delivering eye care to people in need.

Kris Perry became the president of Save the Children Action Network in February 2018. Formerly the executive director of the First Five Years Fund, Kris understands that the future lies in the health and wellbeing of children. She has dedicated her career to bringing resources and support to parents, caregivers, and early learning workforce professionals to ensure children grow up healthy and ready to succeed. She received her bachelor of arts degree from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a master's in social work from San Francisco State University.

Krishnan Narasimhan is deputy program manager for the Pacific Financial Inclusion Programme, or PFIP. PFIP is a United Nations program that has helped over 2 million low-income Pacific Islanders access formal financial services since 2008.

Krista Heiner leads projects within EcoAgriculture Partners’ Policy and Markets Program and supports the Policy Working Group for the Landscapes for People, Food and Nature Initiative. She manages the development of the Kenya Learning Landscape Network and is leading a national-level assessment of the opportunities and challenges for integrated landscape investment in Kenya, among other projects.

Kristalina Georgieva is interim president of the World Bank Group and chief executive officer of the World Bank. As interim president, Georgieva drives the World Bank Group's efforts to end extreme poverty by 2030 and to boost shared prosperity around the world. As CEO for the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the International Development Association since January 2017, she has built support across the international community to mobilize resources for poor and middle-income countries and to create better opportunities for the world's most vulnerable people. Previously, Georgieva, a Bulgarian national, helped shape the agenda of the European Union, first as commissioner for international cooperation, humanitarian aid and crisis response, managing one of the world's largest humanitarian aid budgets, and later as vice president for budget and human resources, in charge of the European Union's €161 billion (US $175bn) budget and 33,000 staff around the world. Before joining the European Commission, Georgieva held multiple positions at the World Bank, including, most recently, vice president and corporate secretary (2008-2010), and from 2007 to 2008, director for sustainable development in charge of 60 percent of the World Bank's policy and lending operations.

Kristan Gross is global executive director for the Vision Impact Institute. She leads a global team of experts to create expanded awareness, through evidence-based research, of the global need to prioritize vision health. Prior to taking this position, Kristan served as global director of content and communications for the organization and successfully led traditional and social media expansion and advocacy initiatives in countries around the world.

Kristen Cordell is a fellow in the Council on Foreign Relations' International Affairs Fellowship with the Project on Prosperity and Development at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. Her views are not representative of her home institution.