Michael Cowan is a program officer at Democracy International, where he provides logistical and administrative support to DI’s analytical and research programs.

Michael Deal is the executive director and CEO of Volunteers for Economic Growth Alliance, the world's largest consortium of 26 international development NGOs focused on economic growth projects that incorporate highly skilled expert volunteers. Prior to VEGA, he was USAID mission director in Colombia, culminating a 28-year foreign service career that included assignments as acting assistant administrator and senior deputy assistant administrator of the Latin American Bureau.

Michael Elliott is the president and chief executive officer of ONE, the global campaigning and advocacy organization fighting extreme poverty and preventable disease.

A. Michael Espy currently works as a private sector attorney, counselor, and agricultural adviser, running his own law and consulting firms Mike Espy PLLC and AE Agritrade Inc. He was formerly U.S. agriculture secretary and a U.S. representative from Mississippi, serving on the budget and agriculture committees. He was also Mississippi’s assistant attorney general, consumer protection director, and assistant secretary of state.

Michael Fakhri is the U.N. special rapporteur on the right to food. He is an associate professor at the University of Oregon School of Law where he teaches courses in international law, food and agricultural law, and commercial law.

Michael Flynn is the global financial advisory government and public services leader for Deloitte. He also leads the Deloitte EMEA Infrastructure & Capital Projects practice and focuses on advising public, private, and banking team clients on finance raising, restructuring, and refinancing of both project finance and corporate debt transactions including the development of government and infrastructure assets, real estate, energy, and renewable energy assets. This advice has included the incorporation of "smart" into traditional infrastructure and considering value capture opportunities including asset recycling for government clients. Michael is a member of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe PPP Business Advisory Board and the International Project Finance Association Council in Ireland.

Michael Fürst has 20 years of experience in corporate responsibility, social business and innovation, and integrity and compliance management, in business and academia. He is currently having responsibilities for the implementation of the Novartis CR and access to medicines strategy, inclusive business model innovation, innovative finance, ESG investor relations, measurement and evaluation, materiality and stakeholder engagement.

Michael Green is executive director of the Social Progress Imperative. An economist by training, he is co-author (with Matthew Bishop of The Economist) of "Philanthrocapitalism: How Giving Can Save the World" and "The Road from Ruin: A New Capitalism for a Big Society." Previously Michael served as a senior official in the U.K. Department for International Development, where he managed British aid programs to Russia and Ukraine.

Michael Hailu has been director of the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation since May 2010. He has more than 30 years of experience in agricultural research, communications and development in Africa and Asia. Prior to joining CTA, he held senior leadership positions at the World Agroforestry Centre in Nairobi, Kenya and at the Center for International Forestry Research in Indonesia. Mr Hailu has implemented major strategic realignment of the CTA refocusing the Centre's work on promoting innovations and capacities to advance youth and women entrepreneurship, digitalization and climate resilience in agriculture. He has degrees from the Universities of Pittsburgh, USA and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and has been trained in strategic leadership at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business in the United States.

Michael Igoe is a Senior Reporter with Devex, based in Washington, D.C. He covers U.S. foreign aid, global health, climate change, and development finance. Prior to joining Devex, Michael researched water management and climate change adaptation in post-Soviet Central Asia, where he also wrote for EurasiaNet. Michael earned his bachelor's degree from Bowdoin College, where he majored in Russian, and his master’s degree from the University of Montana, where he studied international conservation and development.