Aslihan Kes is an economist and gender specialist at the International Center for Research on Women where she provides technical assistance, management and budgetary support to research partners. An economist with six years of experience in research and program design, her work at ICRW has included analyzing the costs of maternal mortality on households as well as developing approaches to integrate gender considerations into agricultural projects.

Asma Lateef is director of the Bread for the World Institute, the research and policy analysis education wing that underpins the advocacy work of U.S.-based anti-hunger advocacy organization Bread for the World. Formerly, Asma was senior international policy analyst at Bread for the World and director of policy and programs for Citizens for Global Solutions. Asma holds a bachelor’s degree in geography from McGill University, a master’s in economics from Maryland University, and a post-graduate diploma in economics from the London School of Economics.

Asmita Naik has been an independent consultant since 2002, carrying out assignments across the globe on a wide range of issues related to human rights, protection, aid policy, and management. Prior to this, she worked for United Nations agencies in Geneva. Asmita has been a long-standing advocate for victims of sexual exploitation and abuse by aid workers. She co-authored a 2002 report on the sexual exploitation of refugee children by aid workers and peacekeepers in West Africa, which led to global policy on this issue for the first time.

Assan Ng’ombe is a resilience officer at the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa, serving as the technical lead on integrating resilience into agriculture development and a resident expert on environmental and social risk management. He also specializes in climate change, poverty reduction, rural livelihood development and protection, and environmental management.

Dr. Astrid Bonfield was appointed chief executive of The Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Trust in June 2012. She is also a trustee of the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness, former chairperson of the European Foundation Centre HIV/AIDS Funders Group, and was chief executive of The Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial.

Atila Roque leads the Ford Foundation’s Rio de Janeiro office and oversees all grantmaking in Brazil. He previously directed Amnesty International Brazil and INESC, focusing on human rights, inequality, and racial justice. His career includes leadership roles at ActionAid International USA and IBASE, along with board service for various human rights and environmental organizations.

Atti Worku is co-CEO of the African Visionary Fund. Throughout her career, she experienced the biased and unjust challenges of raising philanthropic dollars in the United States for a locally led, community-centered African organization. As the AVFund’s Africa-based co-CEO, she is focused on supporting the personal and organizational growth of African visionaries and their innovative impact ideas. Prior to joining the AVFund, Atti founded and led Seeds of Africa, a nonprofit developing the educational foundation for the next generation of Ethiopia’s leaders.

Aubrey Hruby is a non-resident senior fellow at the Africa Center at the Atlantic Council. Hruby is the former managing director of the Whitaker Group, an Africa-focused corporate strategy and investment advisory firm that has helped facilitate more than $2 billion in investment and capital flows to Africa. Hruby has worked with Fortune 500 companies to design and implement successful investment and market entry strategies and advised the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Africa Division.

Audrey Anderson is an Associate at Oxu Solutions, a consulting firm based in Washington, DC, where she specializes in evidence-based programming for adolescent girls. Her prior experience includes curriculum development, education and social entrepreneurship in Latin America, Africa and Asia. She holds a bachelor’s from the College of William & Mary, and a master’s degree in international education and development from George Washington University. Follow her on Twitter at @aeande.

Augusta Saraiva is a Washington-based Brazilian journalist covering U.S. foreign policy, geopolitics and geoeconomics. Her work has been published across the Americas — in the U.S., Brazil, Argentina, and Colombia — and has appeared in publications such as Foreign Policy, Voice of America and USA TODAY. She is a graduate student in political journalism at Northwestern University.