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Trevor Collins

Dr. Trevor Collins is a research fellow in technology-enhanced learning at The Open University’s Knowledge Media Institute. He has worked on a range of U.K. and European funded research projects with schools, universities, museums and charities; and has published in the fields of educational technology, human-computer interaction, and open and distance learning.
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Trevor Lwere

Trevor Lwere is a research and coordination consultant at Development Reimagined. He has a background in economics and global affairs.
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Trevor Mundel

Trevor Mundel leads the Gates Foundation’s efforts to develop high-impact interventions against the leading causes of death and disability in developing countries. He manages the foundation’s disease-specific R&D investments in HIV, tuberculosis, malaria, pneumonia, enteric and diarrheal diseases, and neglected tropical diseases. He also manages cross-cutting product development programs, including discovery and translational sciences, innovative technology solutions, integrated development, and vaccine development and surveillance.
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Trevor Nicholls

Trevor Nicholls is the chief executive officer of CABI. He is also a steering committee member of the Association of International Research and Development Centers for Agriculture (AIRCA). Prior to joining CABI in 2005, he had 25 years building international businesses in the life science industry. He also has broad exprience initiating change and restructuring organizations, ranging from startups to FTSE 100/Nasdaq quoted companies.
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Tricia Petruney

Tricia Petruney is a technical advisor for research utilization at FHI 360, where she supports governments, funders and implementers to improve evidence-informed decision making within global development policy and program design.
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Tricia Young

Tricia Young is CEO for Tdh UK, a child rights charity promoting the rights of children and their families in over 40 countries worldwide. She is a trustee on the board of Global Fund for Women UK and co-chairs Bond's child rights working group. She spoke on the issue of safeguarding in development at a recent Bond conference and brings senior expertise on child protection systems strengthening.
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Tris Dyson

Tris Dyson is the managing director at Challenge Works, which he has led from its origins as a Nesta experiment to being a global hub for expertise and insight on challenge prizes. Before joining Challenge Works, Dyson co-founded and led the social enterprise Tempo and was included in the first cohort of the Observer’s New Radicals.
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Tristan Smith

Dr. Tristan Smith is a Reader at the UCL Energy Institute and is the director of the Research Councils UK-funded project Shipping in Changing Climates.
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True Claycombe

True Claycombe is the policy manager at Friends of the Global Fight. In this role, she advocates for Friends’ legislative goals and provides research and analysis on major policy issues and external reports as they relate to the Global Fund, the three diseases, and global health more generally. True earned her M.A. in international development from American University. Before graduate school, she spent more than two years on Capitol Hill as a legislative assistant to Rep. David McKinley.