Safia Gulamani is a manager on the member engagement team at Convergence. Prior to Convergence, Safia was a consultant at Arabella Advisors in the firm's Washington, D.C., and New York offices. At Arabella, Safia specialized in impact investing and worked with a range of clients including institutional, family, and corporate foundations to provide education on impact investing, source and structure deals, and conduct due diligence.

Safina Nabi is an independent multimedia journalist from South Asia based in Kashmir. She covers human rights, social justice, gender, health, and environment. She has contributed to Al Jazeera, Christian Science Monitor, The Guardian, Slate, and openDemocracy among others.

Safiqul Islam was director of BRAC's education program for 34 years, stepping down in 2021. He led numerous innovations in this role, with many scaled up beyond Bangladesh. He was also a coordinator in BRAC’s monitoring department and a senior research economist in the research division. He was seconded to UNICEF Pakistan and to the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency for education efforts. Before joining BRAC, Islam worked at the Centre on Integrated Rural Development for Asia and the Pacific. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Sahar Alnouri is senior gender adviser at Mercy Corps. Prior to taking on this global role, she was the organization's Iraq gender program manager based in Baghdad, and also worked for Counterpart International out of Kabul. Alnouri was a member of Mercy Corps' emergency response team during the 2009 crisis in Gaza and the Arab Spring assessment team in Egypt in early 2011.

Sahasranshu Dash is a senior economist and research partner at the South Asia Institute of Research and Development in Kathmandu, Nepal. His work focuses on trade strategy, inclusive growth, and sustainable development across South Asia, with an emphasis on India’s global economic engagement.

Sahba Sobhani is acting program manager of the Business Call to Action and team leader in the innovation and development alliances cluster of the Bureau for External Relations and Advocacy of the United Nations Development Program.

Sahil Joshi is a consultant in the federal strategy practice of Deloitte Consulting LLP and a former XPRIZE Innovation Fellow. He is passionate about helping clients address public and social challenges in new and creative ways, including through the development of cross-sector partnerships. Sahil has delivered strategy and innovation solutions for a range of government, philanthropic and nonprofit clients.

Sajeda Amin leads the Population Council’s work on livelihoods for adolescent girls. She is a senior sociologist and demographer with decades of experience generating evidence on empowerment programs for girls and women.

Saliha Gozel is a Washington, D.C.-based international development specialist with experience supporting African startups. She is a master's candidate concentrating on tech policy and development projects at Georgetown University Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service.