Asha Varghese is the president of the Caterpillar Foundation, which invests in building workforce skills and sustainable natural infrastructure to support thriving communities around the world. Prior to joining the foundation in 2019, she spent more than 15 years at GE, serving most recently as director of global health. In that role, she set the global strategy for the GE Foundation, with an emphasis on improving health access worldwide.

Asheesh Advani is president and CEO of JA (Junior Achievement) Worldwide, one of the largest NGOs in the world dedicated to educating young people in the areas of work readiness, financial literacy, and entrepreneurship. He began his career at the World Bank and is an accomplished technology entrepreneur who helped pioneer the social finance business as the founder of CircleLending (acquired by Virgin Group). He is also the board chair of Prosperity Now and has helped grow nonprofit networks and social enterprises.

Ashima Bali is a chartered accountant from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. In order to apply her finance skills toward social development, she completed a two-year master's in public policy from Sciences Po, Paris. Her expertise lies in both traditional corporate finance and non-traditional finance, such as blended and innovative finance for development. She has worked in blended finance with organizations such as OECD and the European Investment Bank.

Ashish Gadnis is the founder and CEO of the award winning blockchain application BanQu. BanQu is the first ever blockchain Economic Identity platform (patent pending) and network that creates long-term economic resilience/independence for refugees and people living in extreme poverty across the globe. He is also currently, a senior strategic advisor to multiple global organizations and the United Nations on the Sustainable Development Goals 2030 agenda.

Ashka Naik serves as the research director at Corporate Accountability, where she leads the research team on strategic campaign development, corporate research, and equity-centered analysis of corporate power across issues that guide the vision and overall success of the organization’s work. Naik also leads Corporate Accountability’s food program, which focuses on structural determinants of food systems, nutrition, and public health, while exposing industry’s interference in the policies and the politics of food security, sovereignty, and justice. She has over two decades of international experience working on environmental justice, business and human rights, corporate accountability, food security, and women's rights.

Ashleigh Whelan is the resident program director for Mongolia at the International Republican Institute.

Ashley Eberhart is a senior consultant at Dalberg working out of the New York office and the the acting program manager at Safe Surgery 2020.

Celebrated actress and humanitarian Ashley Judd became an ambassador for PSI in 2002 and joined as a board member in 2004. Judd has visited the slums, brothels, schools and clinics that PSI programs target in more than 10 countries. She has visited legislators on Capitol Hill, addressed members of the United Nations on human trafficking, and testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for the protection of vulnerable women from violence, sexual abuse and HIV.

Ashley Olson Onyango is the head of financial inclusion and agritech at GSMA, where she leads efforts to drive innovation and collaboration in financial services and agricultural technology across emerging markets. With a strong focus on bridging the digital divide, Ashley works to empower underserved populations by fostering inclusive solutions that leverage mobile technology to improve financial access and health, strengthen global food systems, and enhance resilience in rural and agricultural communities.

Ashley Proud is an experienced humanitarian professional with 12 years’ experience of working in conflict areas including Sudan, Northern Uganda, Iraq, the West Bank and the Syria crisis. She has a background in psychology and organizational development and holds an MSc in international law from Edinburgh University School of Law. She is currently working as Mercy Corps’ Humanitarian Director for Syria.