Martina Broström is a safeguarding, public health, and accountability expert with over 20 years of experience across the United Nations, international NGOs, and the public sector. At CHS Alliance, she leads initiatives to enhance protection from sexual exploitation, abuse, and harassment (PSEAH), focusing on survivor-centered investigations and accountability. As a survivor of sexual abuse within the U.N. Martina is a committed advocate for justice, striving to reduce impunity and improve outcomes for survivors. She contributes to various policy and technical working groups and regularly shares her insights as a speaker on panels and in the media.

Marvin Taylor-Dormond is the director-general of independent evaluation at the Asian Development Bank. At the WBG Independent Evaluation Group, he headed the evaluation function of the International Finance Corporation and Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency as director for independent evaluation, the Private Sector Operations Department, and the Financial, Private Sector and Sustainable Development Department.

Marwa Azelmat is the women's rights policy lead at the Association for Progressive Communications. She works on the intersection of technology, governance, and human rights. Among others, Marwa sits at the Youth Council on Technology for Health as the data policy circle co-chair to advocate for greater youth co-leadership.

Mary Akrami is a leading human rights activist and the former executive director of the Afghan Women’s Network. She is also the former executive director of the Afghan Women Skills Development Center, which established the first shelter for women at risk in 2003. Mary operated shelters in Kabul and had restaurants where she created job opportunities for women. She has been a staunch advocate for the prevention of violence against women and instrumental in advocating for women’s inclusion and the passage of Afghanistan’s violence against women law — “Law on Elimination of Violence Against Women.”

First elected as MP in 2005, Mary has been Labour’s shadow secretary of state for international development since November 2014. She is leading Labour’s campaign to re-establish the U.K. as a global leader in development, prioritizing the agreement of the sustainable development goals to drive forward development and eradicate extreme poverty in the next 15 years. Before Parliament, Mary taught entrepreneurship at Cranfield University’s School of Management and spent four years in Brussels working for an international NGO.

Mary Fontaine is the gender practice lead of JBS International. She is an award-winning technical gender specialist with more than 20 years of residential development experience in the Near East, Middle-East and South Asia. She has lived and worked in director-level positions in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Egypt, Iran and Pakistan, and has brought shorter-term technical expertise to programs in East and West Africa, Eastern Europe and the Balkans. She serves on the board of directors for Women for Afghan Women.

Mary Grady has been active in environmental markets for almost 30 years, including 15 years at Winrock International. She is executive director of the Secretariat for the Architecture for REDD+ Transactions, as well as executive director of the American Carbon Registry. She represents Winrock as the head of delegation to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Previously, Mary worked for 16 years in the renewable energy industry. She holds a master’s in international business and speaks Portuguese and Spanish.

Mary Maker fled the war in South Sudan as a child. She found security and hope in attending school in Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya and has gone on to become a teacher of other young refugees in her community. Maker is currently pursuing further studies as part of a scholarship program at university in the United States and continues to advocate on behalf of the forcibly displaced through her role as a UNHCR high profile supporter.

Mary Robinson is president of the Mary Robinson Foundation — Climate Justice. She served as president of Ireland from 1990-1997 and U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights from 1997-2002. In August 2014 she was appointed the United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Envoy on Climate Change.

Mary Wandia is director of programs at Co-impact, with a focus on sub-Saharan Africa. She is a feminist, pan-Africanist, and a member of the African Feminist Forum Working Group with over 20 years of experience in program strategy and grant making.