Ruth Richardson is the inaugural executive director of ASRA, designed to contribute to the emerging field of systemic risk analysis and response with particular attention to helping decision-makers better understand, assess, and incorporate sensitivity to systemic risks into their decision-making.

Ruth Segal is CAFOD’s policy lead for food systems.

Ruth Simpson is senior lead (development impact and learning) MENA at International Alert. She provides expert advice on design and monitoring and evaluation for peacebuilding, conflict prevention, conflict sensitivity, social cohesion and preventing violent extremism. Prior to Alert, Ruth worked with a number of international NGOs and the U.K. government in central and east Africa, MENA, and Latin America.

Ruth Meinzen-Dick is a senior research fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute based in Washington, D.C., and coordinator of the CGIAR Program on Collective Action and Property Rights.

Ryan Forrest works as a policy and advocacy officer at the Framework Convention Alliance for Tobacco Control, an alliance of more than 500 organizations working to strengthen the implementation of the global tobacco treaty — the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control — around the world. Ryan holds an MSc in global health policy.

Ryan McNamara is a former fellow at Friends of the Earth U.S. and a current undergraduate student at Duke University, studying economics, environmental science, and Chinese.

Ryan Sheely is the director of research in conflict and governance at Mercy Corps. Prior to joining Mercy Corps, he spent a decade teaching at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and evaluating civil society programs in sub-Saharan Africa. He has a Ph.D. in political science from Yale University.

Ryan Weddle served as Devex international development correspondent in Washington in 2008-2009 before joining the U.S. foreign service. He has worked in India for a business process outsourcing firm, and in Kazakhstan on U.S.-funded urban development initiatives. Ryan holds a bachelor's in Asian studies from the University of British Columbia and a master's in international studies from the National University of Singapore, where his research focused on aid effectiveness.

Ryan Ubuntu Olson is a globally recognized gender and human rights expert and recently served as regional director of sustainable business at Palladium, its diversity, equity and inclusion initiative across the company. Olson serves as the co-chair of Society for Inclusive Development’s Working Group on Inclusive Development. He also is a serving member of the Technical Review Panel, which serves the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. He has been a front-line champion of diversity and inclusion and gender and human rights for the past two decades.