Dr. Michael Adekunle Charles is an experienced diplomat, medical doctor, and public health expert, serving as the CEO of the RBM Partnership to End Malaria — the largest global platform for coordinated action toward a world free from malaria. Charles has many years of experience leading the organization’s malaria coordination in Africa, providing technical, managerial, and operational support.

Michael Bear Kleinman worked for NGOs in Afghanistan, across east and central Africa and in Iraq. He was then director of investments for Humanity United, a foundation based in San Francisco. He is currently working on a mobile polling venture. He is a graduate of Yale University and Harvard Law School.

Michael E. Webber is the Josey centennial professor in energy resources at The University of Texas at Austin, as well as chief science and technology officer at ENGIE, a global energy company headquartered in Paris. “Power Trip: The Story of Energy,” his documentary television series, is available on Apple TV, Amazon Prime Video, and local PBS stations.

Michael J. Nyenhuis is the president and CEO of UNICEF USA, with over 25 years of global humanitarian and development experience, fundraising acumen, and proven results to his leadership position.

Michael M. Crow is an educator, knowledge enterprise architect, science and technology policy scholar, and higher education leader. He became the 16th president of Arizona State University in July 2002 and has spearheaded ASU’s rapid and groundbreaking transformative evolution into one of the world’s best public metropolitan research universities. As a model “New American University,” ASU simultaneously demonstrates comprehensive excellence, inclusivity representative of the ethnic and socioeconomic diversity of the U.S. and consequential societal impact.

Michel Kazatchkine is an academic physician. He’s the former head of France’s National Agency for AIDS Research and health ambassador. He led The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria as executive director from 2007 to 2012. He is a former member of the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response.

Michel Wormser is vice president and COO at the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency, the World Bank's political risk insurance arm. Before joining MIGA in 2011, Wormser served in several leadership positions within the Washington, D.C.-based institution, including director of infrastructure and sustainable development for Africa, adviser to the executive vice president of the International Finance Corp. and vice president for private sector development.

Michele Bradford is an international development practitioner with 20 years of experience and currently serves as Chemonics’ chief of party for the Injaz education project in Syria. She has led projects in governance, stabilization, community engagement, public health, and communications in Central Asia, Southern Africa, and the Middle East and North Africa region.

Michele Gaudrault is the technical director of health and nutrition at World Vision International. Michele oversees WVI’s support of more than 184,000 CHWs in 45 countries. WVI’s work in this area focuses not only on the services that CHWs provide in their communities but also — in collaboration with ministries of health — on the health systems strengthening needed to ensure that CHWs are progressively integrated into national systems and professionalized, and that receive the support they require and deserve. Michele spent 25 years in Mozambique and Eswatini.

Michele Piercey is an international development practitioner with 17 years of experience, including 10 years working on political transition and counter-violent extremism programs in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Tunisia. Piercey currently serves as the senior vice president of the Strategic Solutions and Communications Division at Chemonics. Previously, she was the director of the Peace, Stability, and Transition practice, where she led industry outreach on conflict and CVE, supported new business efforts, and provided technical support to projects.