Oscar Castañeda is the senior vice president of the Americas program for Heifer International. He holds a bachelor's degree in Agronomy from the University of San Carlos in Guatemala; a doctorate in biological pest control from the University of Hohenheim in Stuttgart, Germany; and a post-graduate degree in business administration from the Center for Business Development in Guatemala. He is a passionate and experienced development executive devoted to solving the most pressing economic, environmental, and social challenges.

Oscar A. Garcia is the director of the Independent Evaluation Office of the United Nations Development Programme. Appointed to the role in 2020, Garcia is responsible for providing strategic direction, thought leadership, and credible evaluations in advancing UNDP’s work to help countries achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.

Othman Moqbel is a British-Palestinian with over 25 years of experience as a leader in the humanitarian sector. He is currently the CEO of Action for Humanity, the parent organization of Syria Relief.

Dr. Otto Cars is a specialist in infectious diseases and a professor emeritus at Uppsala University, Sweden. He led the Swedish programme against antimicrobial resistance between 1995-2010 and has served as an expert to the World Health Organization and several European agencies. He was the founder in 2005 of the international network ReAct.

Otto Saki is the global governance program officer at the Ford Foundation. With expertise in law, technology, and human rights, he brings together diverse stakeholders to advance a just and inclusive global order by fostering dialogue and strategic alliances to promote democratic values.

Ousmane Badiane is the Africa director for the International Food Policy Research Institute. He oversees the institute’s two regional offices for West and Central Africa in Dakar and Eastern and Southern Africa in Addis Ababa. He coordinates IFPRI’s work program in the areas of food policy research, capacity strengthening, and policy communications in Africa. Ousmane Badiane received a master’s degree and Ph.D. in agricultural economics from the University of Kiel in Germany. He is the chair of The African Agricultural Technology Foundation Board of Trustees.

Ousmane Diagana is the regional vice president for western and central Africa, at the World Bank. Diagana is recognized as an organizational leader, personal mentor, and a professional role model. Diagana has been the vice president of the World Bank Group human resources, vice president for ethics and business conduct, and chief ethics officer of the World Bank Group. Previously, he was World Bank country director for Côte d’Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Benin, Guinea, and Togo, based in Abidjan.

Owen is a senior fellow and director for Europe at the Center for Global Development. He was previously the director of aidinfo, a program of Development Initiatives which aims to make aid more transparent and accountable. Owen was previously a British civil servant in a career spanning more than 20 years that included stints at Her Majesty’s Treasury, the office of the Prime Minister, and the U.K. Department for International Development.

Owen Barder is a vice president at the Center for Global Development, director for Europe and a senior fellow. He is also a visiting professor in practice at the London School of Economics and a specialist adviser to the U.K. House of Commons International Development Committee. He writes a personal blog at http://www.owen.org/blog and hosts a development podcast at http://DevelopmentDrums.org.