Rick Lesaar writes the blog Health and Communications (www.healthandcommunications.com), exploring strategies to make global health and development efforts more effective and more widely and fully understood. He is the strategic communications planner at Crabtree + Company, a marketing communications agency based in Washington, D.C., where he has worked with The Global Fund, USAID, Save the Children, the World Bank, and others.

Rishi Raithatha is the director of data and insights for the GSMA Mobile Money program. He leads the annual GSMA State of the Industry Report on Mobile Money and oversees the program’s insights work.

Risto Karajkov is a doctoral student in development at the University of Bologna, Italy. His thesis focuses on foreign aid to the Balkans. Risto has 10 years of experience as a development practitioner in that region, and he writes frequently about international development, foreign aid, and the work of NGOs, including for Devex. Risto runs Consulting Macedonia, a young development and management consultancy.

Rita Panicker is the founder-director of Butterflies, a nongovernmental organization in New Delhi, India, working to protect and empower street-connected children since 1989. She is also chair of the board of Family for Every Child.

Ritu Sharma is the president and co-founder of Women Thrive Worldwide. She is a co-convener and principal of the Women, Faith and Development Alliance as well as the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network. Sharma also serves on the board of the U.S. Global Leadership Center, the Pax World Women's Advisory Council, and the Advisory Council of Men and Women as Allies.

Rob Baltussen is a global health economics professor at the Radboud University Medical Center.

Rob Henning is an expert in agriculture and resilience with more than 20 years of experience promoting investment and economic growth in developing countries. He has worked at all levels of emerging economies from the grassroots to the boardroom to help create prosperity with a focus on entrepreneurship, value chain strategy development, frontier market investing and market research. At Chemonics, he serves as director of the Agriculture and Food Security technical practice. He holds an MBA from Georgetown University and started his career as a small enterprise development volunteer with the Peace Corps in Benin, West Africa.

Rob Hughes is a research fellow at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, and consultant for the Clean Air Fund.