Steve Radelet is the chief economist for the U.S. Agency for International Development. He served as senior advisor for development for the secretary of State in 2010 and was a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development from 2002 to 2010. He also served as an economic advisor to the president of Liberia from 2005 to 2009. A founding co-chair of the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network, Radelet worked as deputy assistant secretary of the treasury for Africa, the Middle East and Asia.

Steve is an advocacy, research and campaigning specialist based in London who focuses on strategy and evaluation. He previously served as director of policy and campaigns for two prominent NGOs and has worked on global trade, worker’s rights, tax havens, food security, corporate accountability, finance and aid. He was a member of the Make Poverty History campaign coordination team and has published widely on international development and campaigning. Steve's writing for Devex focuses on civil society's role in foreign assistance. His views don't necessarily reflect those of Devex.

Steve Trent has over 30 years of experience in environmental and human rights campaigning, creating effective advocacy and communications campaigns and field projects, as well as leading investigations in over 40 countries. He is the CEO and founder of the Environmental Justice Foundation. Steve also co-founded WildAid, serving as president for over a decade and leading its work in China and India. Prior to this, Steve was the campaign director at the Environmental Investigation Agency.

Steve is a co-founder and lead of the advisory practice at Office:FMA, a financial strategy and advisory firm focused on emerging and frontier markets. Steve has successfully led high-profile projects around capital market development, public financial management, entrepreneurship, access to finance, economic growth, investment promotion and has structured many significant innovative financial transactions. Clients have included DFIs, foundations, non-profits and other consulting firms.

Steven R. Koltai is a fellow at New America, successful repeat entrepreneur, and former senior adviser for entrepreneurship in Hillary Clinton’s State Department. This piece derives from his new book, "Peace Through Entrepreneurship: Investing in a Startup Culture for Security and Development".

Steven Lawry is Global Practice Leader for Land Tenure and Property Rights at DAI. Dr. Lawry founded the program on tenure and natural resources management at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Land Tenure Center and he led the Ford Foundation’s land policy and land reform initiatives in South Africa. He has lived and worked overseas for 16 years on long- and short-term assignments in Africa and Asia. Most recently, he led the USAID-funded Sudan Property Rights Program, based in Juba, South Sudan.

Steven Ramage leads external relations for the intergovernmental Group on Earth Observations. He has spent his career working on strategy, policy, technology translation and innovation in the geospatial sector. He is a visiting professor at the Institute for Future Cities, University of Strathclyde, and a SASNet fellow at the Urban Big Data Centre, University of Glasgow, Scotland. He also chairs the GEO Commercial Sector Working Group, is a member of the Global Advisory Council for the Open Geospatial Consortium and a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.

Steven Van Yoder is the author of Get Slightly Famous: Become a Celebrity in Your Field and Attract More Business With Less Effort. His firm Get The Word Out Communications helps global companies become recognized authorities in their industries and reach their best clients and customers.

Steven-Hristo Evestus is a former Estonian state prosecutor and a member of the NGO Transparency International Estonia.

Stewart McCulloch is the global insurance director of VisionFund, the microfinance division of World Vision the child-centric relief, development and advocacy INGO. He is responsible for the provision of insurance products to VisionFund's 1 million clients and the development of financial safety nets to help these clients deal with climate and other similar shocks. Prior to joining VisionFund, Stewart had a 30-year career in international insurance including leading an international insurance broker as CEO.