Lawrence Evans III, Ph.D., M.P.H. is the director of country and core programs in the Promoting the Quality of Medicines program, a cooperative agreement between the United States Agency for International Development and the United States Pharmacopeial Convention. He heads a team of 90 experts working in more than 30 countries implementing activities that build the capacity of medicines regulatory authorities and quality assurance systems while also supporting the manufacture of quality-assured priority essential medicines for maternal and child health as well as malaria, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and neglected tropical diseases.

Lawrence Haddad is a World Food Prize winner and has been GAIN’s executive director since 2016. Haddad chaired Action Track 1 Ending Hunger and Malnutrition at the 2021 U.N. Food Systems Summit. In 2022, he was awarded a CMG for “services to international agriculture and nutrition” by King Charles III of the United Kingdom. Before GAIN, Haddad co-founded the Global Nutrition Report, was director of the Institute of Development Studies, and was director of the International Food Policy Research Institute’s Division of Food Consumption and Nutrition. An economist, Haddad completed his Ph.D. in Food Research at Stanford University in 1988.

Lawrence is a Paris-based correspondent and communications consultant who has been reporting and writing on development issues for more than 20 years. He covers French development assistance and has interviewed French Development Agency Director-General Dov Zerah for Devex News.

Lawrence O. Gostin is distinguished professor of global health law at Georgetown University and faculty director at the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law. He is a member of the Panel for a Global Public Health Convention.

Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera is the president of Malawi. Formerly a church leader, he entered politics in 2014, became leader of the opposition, and later won Malawi’s historic 2020 election rerun. His governance focuses on servant leadership, economic growth, and rule of law, alongside global advocacy for climate justice and fair trade.

Lean Alfred Santos is a former Devex development reporter focusing on the development community in Asia-Pacific, including major players such as the Asian Development Bank and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank. He previously covered Philippine and international business and economic news, sports and politics.

Leanne Tory-Murphy is a researcher and reporter living in Palermo, Italy, where she recently completed research as a Fulbright scholar. She is a current journalism fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto.

Leanne Wolff has more than 19 years of domestic and international experience working with HIV/AIDS; family planning; nutrition; maternal and child health; COVID-19; water, sanitation and hygiene; and malaria. With a focus on behavior change communication, adult learning methodologies and capacity building, Wolff brings innovation to how practitioners access best practices and resources to design, implement and evaluate programs.

Lee H. Babcock is managing director of LHB Associates, a strategy and management consulting firm bringing mobile finance and other business models to the economic base of the pyramid.

Leif Fenger Jensen served as the first managing director of the World Diabetes Foundation, holding the position from 2002 until 2005. After launching the foundation, he served as vice chairman of its board of directors from 2005 to 2017. He returned to the foundation as managing director in 2017. Jensen has also worked for Novo Nordisk A/S, holding several managerial positions in the company. In the course of his 25-year career in diabetes treatment and care, he has visited more than 100 countries. Jensen has a master's degree in economics and is a Danish citizen.