Provash Budden has 17 years of international development experience encompassing leadership, program design, management and implementation of emergency and development programs. He is currently the country director for Mercy Corps Colombia, leading programs focused on land rights, access to education, economic development and support to displaced communities affected by conflict. Provash holds master's degree in international affairs from Columbia University.

As Pathfinder International's president and CEO, Purnima Mane oversees a global staff of more than 1,000, an annual budget exceeding $100 million, and sexual and reproductive health programs in more than 20 developing countries. Before joining Pathfinder, Mane served as a U.N. assistant secretary-general and deputy executive director of the U.N. Population Fund. Mane is a distinguished diplomat, scholar and social activist with more than 30 years of leadership experience.

Qahir Dhanani is a managing director and partner at Boston Consulting Group. He leads BCG’s work with multilateral institutions and is a member of the firm’s public sector and social impact leadership teams in North America. His focus includes expanding climate and development finance, eliminating poverty, and advancing the Sustainable Development Goals.

Imam Qasim Rashid Ahmad is founder and chairman of Al-Khair Foundation. A graduate in Islamic sciences, he has been actively involved in AKF’s work both at home and overseas. For many years, Qasim led AKF’s fundraising efforts by using his expansive reach and influence in the U.K. Muslim community. Qasim was previously a counselor, community/faith leader and imam at the Croydon Mosque and Islamic Center. He was also a visiting prison imam for nine years.

Qu Dongyu is the director-general of the Food and Agriculture Organization. He has spent his life working on how to make sure the world is fed. Before coming to FAO, Qu served as China’s vice minister of agriculture and rural affairs. His motto is “Simple life, but not simple work.”

Quentin Wodon is a lead economist in the Education Global Practice at the World Bank. He has also held roles at Procter & Gamble and the International Movement ATD Fourth World, and taught at universities in Belgium and the U.S. He has more than 400 publications, holds Ph.D.s in economics and theology and religious studies, and is actively involved in pro bono work with nonprofits.

Ambassador Rabab Fatima is the permanent representative of Bangladesh to the United Nations, New York. Appointed in December 2019, she previously served as ambassador to Japan (2016-2019). She is currently serving as a vice president of the UNDP/UNFPA/UNOPS executive board, and was president of the UNICEF executive board in 2020. A career diplomat ambassador, Fatima joined the Bangladesh Foreign Service in 1989. She also served as head of human rights in the Commonwealth Secretariat and headed the International Organization for Migration’s regional office for South Asia and Southwest Asia. She received her M.A. in International Relations and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, USA, and a B.A. in Social Science from the University of Canberra, Australia.

Rabah Arezki is a former chief economist and vice president at the African Development Bank and former chief economist of the World Bank’s Middle East and North Africa region. He is also the former chief of commodities in the International Monetary Fund’s research department. He is a professor and research director at the CNRS-CERDI, a member of the FERDI's chair working group on the international architecture of financing for development, and a senior fellow at FERDI and Harvard Kennedy School.

Rabih Torbay is president and CEO of Project HOPE, a global health and humanitarian organization working in more than 20 countries around the world.

Rachael Knight is the director of Namati’s Community Land Protection Program. She is an attorney with expertise in the areas of land tenure security, access to justice, and legal empowerment of the poor. She previously served as director of the International Development Law Organization’s (IDLO) Community Land Titling Initiative, working to document and protect the customary land rights of indigenous groups in Uganda, Liberia and Mozambique.