Ratnakar Adhikari has been serving the executive secretariat for the Enhanced Integrated Framework at the World Trade Organization as its executive director since October 2013. Prior to this assignment, he was the chief executive director of South Asia Watch on Trade, Economics and Environment, a Kathmandu-based regional think tank.

Rattan Lal, born in India and a citizen of the United States, will receive the 2020 World Food Prize for developing and mainstreaming a soil-centric approach to increasing food production that restores and conserves natural resources and mitigates climate change. Over his career spanning more than five decades and four continents, Lal has promoted innovative soil-saving techniques benefiting the livelihoods of more than 500 million smallholder farmers, improving the food and nutritional security of more than two billion people and saving hundreds of millions of hectares of natural tropical ecosystems.

Ravi is a trained social worker with commitment to advancing human rights, gender equality, inclusion and social justice. He serves as the global adviser on youth and partnership with United Nations Millennium Campaign and U.N.-Habitat, based in New York. He is the lead author of “Youth 21: Building the Architecture of Youth Engagement in the UN System,” by U.N.-Habitat.

Ravi leads digital strategy for governance global practice at the World Bank Group in Washington, D.C. At night, he works on his latest startup, Code for Nepal, to increase digital literacy and use of open data in Nepal. He also serves as a Penn Kemble fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy. In 2009, he co-founded Grassroot Movement in Nepal, a nonprofit that has rebuilt more than 25 schools. Views expressed here are his own and not of his employers.

Ray Offenheiser is president of Oxfam America. With more than 30 years of international development experience as a field programmer, grant-maker and executive in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the United States, Offenheiser is a recognized leader on issues such as poverty alleviation, human rights, foreign policy and international development.

Raymond Baker is president of Global Financial Integrity, a Washington, D.C.-based research and advocacy organization analyzing illicit financial flows and promoting pragmatic transparency measures in the international financial system as a means to global development and security.

Raymond Offenheiser is president and CEO at Oxfam America. With more than three decades of experience in development as a field programmer, grant maker and executive in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the United States, he joined Oxfam from the Ford Foundation in 1995. Offenheiser is a member of the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network and a founder of the ONE Campaign.

Raymond Struyk is a senior fellow at the nonprofit Results for Development Institute and author of the newly published "Improving Think Tank Management: Practical Guidance for Think Tanks, Research Advocacy NGOs, and Their Funders."

Razmi Farook has worked with the British Red Cross for over 10 years. During that time, she has held various posts, including that of humanitarian diplomacy coordinator for Asia Pacific and most recently country manager for Syria and Lebanon. Razmi’s new role as head of Asia region involves overseeing operations in nine different countries including Philippines, Afghanistan, Mongolia and Nepal.