Richard Branson is a businessman and philanthropist. He is the founder of Virgin Group and co-founder of the Audacious Project.

Rick Brennan is director of emergency risk management and humanitarian response at the World Health Organization in Geneva, where he oversees support to humanitarian programs globally. In October 2014, he was also appointed director of Ebola response at WHO headquarters. He has extensive experience in humanitarian emergencies and post-conflict settings in over 35 countries across Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Eastern Europe.

Richard China is president and CEO of International Green Structures, a U.S. private sector firm that offers innovative structures and services that provide the solution to the global housing crisis. Prior to starting IGS, China spent most of his contracting career as president of Primo Electric, a family-owned electrical contracting firm serving the Mid-Atlantic region for over 40 years, then as COO of Integrated Electrical Services, a Houston based electrical contracting company. China is an IGD Frontier Leader.

Richard Choularton is the director of agriculture and economic growth at Tetra Tech International Development Services. He is a recognized expert in food security, agricultural technology, climate change adaptation, risk finance, resilience, emergency preparedness, and early warning.

Richard Clark is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame. His research focuses on international cooperation, finance, and development. You can read more about him and his work at www.richardtclark.com.

Richard Curtis is a writer and director, as well as co-founder and vice-chair of the U.K. charity Comic Relief. He is a founding member of Make Poverty History and worked on Live 8 in 2005. In 2014, Richard founded Project Everyone to help launch and promote the U.N.’s Global Goals for Sustainable Development. In 2016, Richard was appointed as a U.N. SDG advocate and in 2017 he was awarded the Cannes LionHeart Award for his charity and campaigning work.

Richard Dictus is the executive coordinator of United Nations Volunteers, the U.N. organization that contributes to peace and development through volunteerism worldwide. Previously, he was U.N. resident coordinator and resident representative of the U.N. Development Program in Malawi.

Richard Dzikunu received a master of arts degree in development communication and studied at the Yale Training Institute on Global Health. As an advocacy associate for the Primary Health Care Initiative and a Global Health Corps fellow at Population Action International, he is responsible for supporting the director of the PHC Initiative and PAI’s research associate and communications team; and fulfilling an advocacy and communications role supporting all aspects of the development and implementation of the advocacy strategy to strengthen PHC systems for universal health coverage globally.

Professor Sir Richard Feachem is director of the Global Health Group at the University of California San Francisco Institute for Global Health Sciences and professor of global health at both UCSF and the University of California, Berkeley. He is also a visiting professor at London University and an honorary professor at the University of Queensland.

Richard Francis is global head of Sandoz, the generic drugs division of Novartis. He is a member of the Swiss pharmaceutical company's executive committee. He joined Sandoz after a 13-year career in U.S. biotechnology firm Biogen Idec, where he led the development of several drugs to treat multiple sclerosis. Prior to that, Francis worked for Sanofi in the United Kingdom.