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Toily Kurbanov

Toily Kurbanov is the executive coordinator of the United Nations Volunteers.
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Tom Arnold

Tom Arnold is chair of the Irish Convention on the Constitution, the former Coordinator of the Scaling Up Nutrition Movement, a member of the International Food Policy Research Institute’s advisory board, and also a director and governor at the Irish Times, Ireland’s leading newspaper. Tom is a graduate in agricultural economics from University College Dublin and holds master's degrees from the Catholic University of Louvain and Trinity College Dublin. He received honorary doctorates from the National University of Ireland in 2009 and University College Dublin in 2010, and a People of the Year Award in Ireland in 2013.
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Tom Beloe

Tom Beloe is climate change governance and development effectiveness adviser for the U.N. Development Program's Asia-Pacific Regional Center. He also provides support to finance ministries and other institutions to strengthen systems of governance in ways that will respond to the rising challenge of climate change. Beloe previously worked as an anthropologist with the U.K.’s Department for International Development on social policy and programming in Africa and Southeast Asia.
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Tom Black

Tom Black is a senior program officer at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and works in the measurement and insights team where he manages opinion research on the behalf of the foundation. Prior to this, he worked as a pollster in London working on national, local and European elections for parties of all political stripes.
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Tom Carver

Tom Carver is a communications strategist and former BBC journalist based in Africa and Washington. He is a joint CEO of Africa Momentum, a social impact initiative to deliver better data on Africa’s growing consumer classes.
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Tom Hart

Tom Hart is the North America executive director of The ONE Campaign, a policy and advocacy organization with millions of people taking action to end extreme poverty and preventable disease, particularly in Africa.
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Tom Keatinge

Tom Keatinge is the founding director of the Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies at the Royal United Services Institute, where his research focuses on the intersection of finance and security. He is also a specialist adviser on illicit finance to the U.K. Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee. He has a Master’s in Intelligence & International Security from King’s College London, where he studied the effectiveness of the global counterterror finance regime. He was previously an investment banker for 20 years at J.P. Morgan.
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Tom Klotzbach

Tom Klotzbach is a primary contributor to Fintrac’s methodological field approach and has designed numerous multi-year agricultural development programs worldwide. He is the recent author of a white paper on reducing smallholder vulnerabilities to climate change, and original architect of the Fintrac M&E system, which is cited by donors as a model for measuring the impact of new technologies on food security and smallholder income generation.
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Tom Orrell

Tom Orrell is senior advocacy adviser at Publish What You Fund. His role is to highlight the value that joining up open data standards can deliver for standard setters, data producers and users alike. Tom’s experience is in the development and humanitarian sectors, digital and data policy, and human rights sector. Previously, Tom worked as a consultant for UNICEF in Ethiopia and Togo, a program manager and associate at Global Partners Digital and as a public law caseworker.
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Tom Rawlings

Tom Rawlings is a U.S.-based safeguarding consultant with over 20 years of experience leading efforts by courts, government agencies, and NGOs to protect children and vulnerable adults from harm. He can be reached at trawlings@tomrawlings.com.