Mary Woodgate is the director of Accenture Development Partnerships for the United Kingdom and Ireland. For the past two decades, she has worked at the intersection of public, private, and nonprofit sectors. A trained partnership broker, Mary has supported dozens of partnerships and collaborations across different phases — from brokering and inception to implementation. Mary draws on years of experience in strategy, innovation, and operating model design to support novel and impactful models of collective action.

Maryam Mohsin is the communications officer at Girls Not Brides. She works on media outreach to secure in-depth coverage of child marriage and the work being done to address it. Before joining Girls Not Brides, Maryam was the research uptake manager for the Secure Livelihoods Research Consortium, and communications advisor on DFID’s High Level Humanitarian Cash Panel, both based at the Overseas Development Institute. Maryam has worked with a number of NGOs including Muslim Aid and Amnesty International.

Dr. Mary-Ann Etiebet is a global health innovator with over two decades of experience in public and private sectors improving health care for underserved populations. She joined MSD in 2016, and now serves as the associate vice president of Health Equity, successfully building a new team responsible for the development of the company’s first enterprise-wide health equity strategy and increase access to health, and the company’s portfolio of medicines and vaccines in low- and middle-income countries. She served as Lead of the MSD for Mothers global health initiative, with access to quality maternal health care for more than 20 million women in over 65 countries.

Mary Ellen Iskenderian is the president and CEO of Women’s World Banking.

Mary Ellen McNish is president and CEO of The Hunger Project. McNish previously served as the general secretary and the executive head of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) for 10 years. She has 35 years of progressive leadership experience in the non-profit sector, including as executive director of development at Weill Medical College of Cornell University and New York Presbyterian Hospital, as well as serving as executive vice president of Planned Parenthood of Maryland.

Maryjane Lacoste joined the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in May 2014, working with the Family Planning Team as the senior program officer for family planning service delivery and quality. As such, she leads and manages implementation of the Implant Access Program, ensuring that the strategy focuses on expanding access to method choice and strengthens quality of care including counseling, interpersonal communications, clinical training, service delivery, and performance monitoring.

Maryline Darmaun is an interdisciplinary agronomist. She has experienced the world of agricultural development from the field to the political arenas of the United Nations. After several years working on climate change and agroecology-related issues at the Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome, she is now actively involved in building scientific evidence around agroecology’s multidimensional potential through a doctorate in association with the Avaclim project.

Maryna Slobodnichenko is Ukraine’s deputy minister of health for European integration. She holds a law degree from Taras Shevchenko National University in Kyiv, Ukraine, and an MBA from Guglielmo Marconi University, Italy. Maryna’s legal career spans public and private sectors. She has extensive training in international, humanitarian, and health care law.

Maryse Gautier currently serves as co­-chair of the Preparatory Committee of the U.N. conference for housing and sustainable urban development, Habitat III, to be carried out in Quito in October 2016. She is general inspector at the General Council of Environment and Sustainable development at the Ministry of Ecology in France. She previously worked for the French Caisse des Dépôts. Previously she spent 17 years at the World Bank where she has worked as urban expert in the MENA region, specifically Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Yemen, and Latin America, with a special focus in Colombia and Argentina. She also managed the World Bank portfolio for the Philippines for four years during which she focused on governance and anti­-corruption issues.

M. Ashraf Haidari is Afghanistan's former ambassador to Sri Lanka, an adjunct professor at Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, and a World in 2050 senior fellow at the Diplomatic Courier.