Suzanne Bond Hinsz is a technical director with MSI, focusing on organizational development and public sector management. An international development expert for over 20 years, she has advised the United States National Security Council, House Foreign Affairs Committee, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the State Department, USAID, Fortune 100 companies, governments, the United Nations, regional bodies, and grassroots organizations on a wide range of initiatives in more than 30 countries. She received her M.A. in international relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and holds a CPT designation from the International Society for Performance Improvement.

Suzanne Ehlers is president and CEO of PAl. She has worked for the last 15 years to promote women's health, rights and empowerment across the globe, and has been honored one of the 40 under 40 International Development Leader by Devex and as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. Suzanne is co-lead of the FP2020 Rights and Empowerment Working Group and has served on the U.S. government delegation to the U.N. Commission on Population and Development. She was also a Peace Corps volunteer in the Central African Republic.

Suzanne Ehlers is an established nonprofit executive leader with over 25 years of experience serving and connecting global populations including refugees, forcibly displaced people, and the stateless. She is currently the executive director and CEO of USA for UNHCR, where she leads a Washington D.C.- and New York City-based organization that amplifies refugee voices while engaging millions of Americans in support of the work of the UN Refugee Agency.

Suzanne Kindervatter is the vice president of strategic impact at InterAction. Over the past 25 years, she has worked in 20 countries, in the areas of adult and nonformal education, microenterprise development, organizational capacity building, evaluation, and gender and development. Prior to joining InterAction, Kindervatter served as director of the Better Life Options for Girls and Young Women Program at the Centre for Development and Population Activities. She was also the director of Asia Region and Technical Services at OEF International.

Suzanne McCarron is president of the ExxonMobil Foundation and general manager of public and government affairs for Exxon Mobil Corp. She has responsibility for its philanthropic initiatives, which focus on advancing math and science education in the United States, equipping women in developing countries with the resources they need to fulfill their economic potential, and combating malaria. McCarron is a member of the Defeating Malaria Board at Harvard University.

Suzanne Petroni is the senior director for gender, population and development at the International Center for Research on Women, where, since 2012, she has led the organization’s work to improve development programs and policies by expanding the evidence base regarding the relationships between gender, sexual and reproductive health and rights, adolescence and demographic and socio-economic outcomes.

Suzanne Standfast has been secretary general of Oxfam Sweden since 2021. Suzanne has more than 15 years of experience in the NGO sector, including leading roles within Save the Children Sweden, on a global as well as national level.

Suzanne Grant Lewis is the director of UNESCO's International Institute for Educational Planning. She provides strategic vision and leadership for the Institute’s three offices in Paris, Dakar, and Buenos Aires. She has over 25 years of experience in improving educational opportunities in the developing world, particularly in education policy and planning in Africa.

Sven Grimm serves as director of the Centre for Chinese Studies at Stellenbosch University in South Africa. The political scientist has worked on external partners’ cooperation with Africa since 1999, with a particular emphasis on China-Africa relations since 2006. He previously worked with the London-based Overseas Development Institute and the German Development Institute (DIE) in Bonn, Germany.

Sven Mollekleiv is the senior vice president and head of corporate relations and corporate social responsibility in DNVGL. He is also the ombudsman in the DNVGL. He started in DNV as the HR director and member of executive board in 2001. He has previously been the secretary general of the Norwegian Red Cross, a position he held for 10 years. He was elected president of the Norwegian Red Cross in 2008.