Marni Sommer is an associate professor of sociomedical sciences at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University. She leads the gender, adolescent transitions, and environment program. She developed, along with the International Rescue Committee, the “MHM in Emergencies Toolkit” collaborating with UNICEF and global partners on MHM in Ten, a 10-year agenda aimed at transforming schools for menstruating girls and female teachers.

Marshall Stowell is the director of external relations and communications at PSI, the global health NGO headquartered in Washington, D.C. He also serves as editor-in-chief of PSI's Impact magazine. Previously, Stowell served as the director of creative enterprises and marketing at Share Our Strength, an NGO working to end child hunger in the United States.

Marshall Stowell is the director of external relations and communications at PSI, the global health NGO headquartered in Washington, D.C. He also serves as editor-in-chief of PSI's Impact magazine. Previously, Stowell served as the director of creative enterprises and marketing at Share Our Strength, an NGO working to end child hunger in the United States.

Marta Foresti is director for governance, security and livelihoods at the Overseas Development Institute. Marta’s interests include the political economy of development, service delivery, conflict and fragility. She has over 15 years of research, evaluation, policy and management experience and has an interest in applied social research methodologies and policy evaluation.

Martha Guerrero Ble is the labor market access program associate at Refugees International

Martha Gyansa-Lutterodt is a pharmacist with over 38 years of experience in national and global health. Gyansa-Lutterodt is the chairman of the Ghana Chapter of West Africa Post Graduate College of Pharmacists. She chairs the AU-NEPAD Africa Medicines Harmonisation Committee for Policy and Legal Reforms.

Martha Holley Newsome is responsible for World Vision International’s Sustainable Health global program group, including food, nutrition, HIV and AIDS, and water, sanitation and hygiene. She has a masters of public health from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health and a B.A. from Wheaton College in Illinois. Martha is also a mHealth advocate and has been championing the scale up of digital technology for maternal and child health and nutrition within World Vision and served on the mHealth Alliance board for three years. She currently sits on the mPowering Frontline Health Workers steering committee.

Martha Thorne is an American architectural academic, curator, editor, and author. She is the Executive Director of the Pritzker Architecture Prize and Dean in the architecture school at IE University in Madrid.

Martin Bader is a journalist based in South Asia focused on human rights and development. He was previously based in the Middle East and writes in English and German.

Martin Chungong made double history by becoming the first-ever African and the first non-European to be elected as secretary general in the Inter-Parliamentary Union’s 126-year history. With more than three decades of experience and knowledge of parliaments at national and international level, he has dedicated his professional life to promoting and building democracy worldwide.