Monique Villa is a journalist, a business leader, and a passionate advocate for women's empowerment. She was appointed CEO of Thomson Reuters Foundation in 2008. She has since transformed the organization into a global corporate foundation, leveraging the skills, expertise, and values of Thomson Reuters to run groundbreaking programs which trigger change and empower people across the world.

Monisha Ashok is the director of health initiatives at the U.S. Development Finance Corporation. Previously, she was a senior adviser for Market Access & Innovative Finance at the Center for Innovation & Impact in USAID’s Global Health Bureau. Monisha also previously worked for the Boston Consulting Group and the World Bank. She holds an MPA in International Development from the Harvard Kennedy School and BAs in Economics and Public Health from UC Berkeley.

Monisha is the founder and CEO of ProInspire, a nonprofit enabling individuals and organizations achieve their potential for social impact. She spent her career working in the for-profit and nonprofit sectors, including Arthur Andersen, Capital One, Citigroup, ACCION International, CARE, and Initiative for a Competitive Inner City.

Monzur Morshed Patwary is a senior program manager at BRAC. He completed the Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship at Emory University-Rollins School of Public Health and is currently pursuing his professional affiliation at The Task Force for Global Health.

Mook Bangalore is a research assistant at the World Bank, examining the impact of climate change on poverty with a focus on natural disasters. He was a co-author of “Shock Waves: Managing the Impacts of Climate Change on Poverty,” on which this post is based.

Morgan Meaker is a London-based freelance journalist. She writes for Reuters, the Guardian and the BBC among others. She covers human rights, development and sustainable business at home and abroad.

Moria joined Devex's Washington bureau in September 2009 as an international development correspondent fellow. She is a communications specialist with a background in international development public relations, publishing, education and journalism. Moria has worked for Catholic Relief Services and, as a Peace Corps volunteer, lived in the Philippines for two years.

Morseda Chowdhury is the director of health, nutrition, and population program in BRAC. She heads the largest nongovernmental health care network in the world with approximately 50,000 community health workers serving 110 million people in Bangladesh.

Morten Jerven, associate professor at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, is an economic historian with a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics. Jerven is the author of the book "Poor Numbers: How We Are Misled by African Development Statistics and What to Do about It." He has since published a more detailed study of what happened to economic growth evidence in Botswana, Kenya, Tanzania, and Zambia from 1965 to 1995. He has two edited volumes with Routledge. One on Measuring African Development: Past and Present" and another on the African Statistical Tragedy. His latest book, Africa: Why Economists Get It Wrong was published in June 2015.