Sophie Hermanns is a Ph.D. candidate at Cambridge and a visiting fellow at Harvard. She has done fieldwork with the World Health Organization and the Schistosomiasis Control Initiative and is currently writing a dissertation about mass deworming campaigns. Previously, she worked in Tanzania, Cambodia and Germany. She has done too many internships at think tanks and international organizations and has studied at too many universities.

Sophie in 't Veld has been a Dutch member of the European Parliament since 2004 for the D66 party, part of the ALDE group. She is current vice-chair of the committee on civil liberties, justice and home affairs — LIBE, a member of the parliamentary committee on women’s rights and gender equality and chair of the parliamentary working group on sexual and reproductive health and rights and HIV/AIDS. Previously, she was the ELDR group’s secretary general at the Committee of the Regions.

Sophie Sirtaine is the CEO at the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor. She is responsible for leading the CGAP operational team to develop, resource, and deliver CGAP’s five-year strategy. She is also a member of CGAP’s executive committee. With over 20 years of experience in the World Bank, Sirtaine has held various positions, including as director of strategy and operations in the independent evaluation group, and she led the World Bank’s banking sector crisis response in several EU countries during the 2008-2009 global financial crisis.

Sophie Tholstrup is a humanitarian affairs officer based in the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in New York. She has worked on cash coordination in Haiti and Somalia, and formerly worked as a humanitarian advisor with the U.K. Department for International Development.

Soraya Narfeldt is the chief executive officer and chairperson of RA International. A British citizen born in Beirut and raised in Sierra Leone, she founded RA International in 2003. The company is Africa’s leading remote site service provider with a broad range of services including construction, catering, operation and maintenance, life support, supply chain, and accommodation, catering to clients operating in remote and challenging environments.

Soraya Ramoul is director of global access to care at Novo Nordisk, which — in conjunction with the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Danish Red Cross — runs Partnering for Change, a program aimed at tackling the growing burden of NCDs affecting millions of people living in humanitarian crises around the world.

Sorcha O’Callaghan is the head of the Humanitarian Policy Group at ODI, where she leads research into humanitarian system reform, inclusion and gender, displacement and humanitarian financing. A specialist in displacement, civilian protection and humanitarian action in protracted crises, she has worked extensively in East Africa.

Soukeyna Kane is the director of the fragility, conflict, and violence group at the World Bank. She was previously the country director for Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, and Chad from 2017 to 2021 and governance practice manager in Europe and Central Asia for 5 years. Kane, a Senegalese national, joined the bank in March 2003 as a senior financial management specialist and has held several positions in the Africa region, operations policy and country services, Middle East and North Africa, and Europe and Central Asia. Before joining the World Bank, she was the principal internal auditor at the African Development Bank.

Soumya Balasubramanya is a researcher at the International Water Management Institute. Her expertise includes environmental economics, non-market valuation, development economics, micro-econometrics, and program evaluation. Soumya’s research has been used by bilateral and multilateral financial organizations, and governments, to guide investments and policy in water, sanitation, agriculture, and climate sectors. She is currently working in South, Southeast, and Central Asia and coordinates IWMI’s programming in Bangladesh.

Spencer F. Kirk is an entrepreneur, philanthropist, and managing director of Kirk Humanitarian. He and his wife Kristen founded Kirk Humanitarian in 2002 with the mission of improving maternal health around the world. Kirk Humanitarian is the leading purchaser and donor of high-quality and safe multiple micronutrient supplements for low- and middle-income countries governments and NGO partners. Kirk co-founded Megahertz Corporation in 1985 and served as CEO at Extra Space Storage, Inc. from 2009 to 2016. He maintains his role as a director of the board at Extra Space Storage, Inc.