Victoriia Panchenko is the programme lead for HelpAge International in western Ukraine. Prior to February last year she had been working for HelpAge in Eastern Ukraine for more than seven years.

Vida Duti is the country director of IRC Ghana, an independent, nonprofit WASH organization that works with partners in countries including Ghana, Uganda, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, India, and Honduras. Duti is an expert in governance and systems development with over 20 years of national and international experience working in community development and poverty reduction; capacity development of local government actors; public sector reforms; and water service governance.

Vidya Krishnan is a Mumbai-based freelance journalist who writes about health, human rights, and gender in South Asia.

Vijay Raghavan is the current country director of Action Against Hunger in Afghanistan. He has over three decades of work experience in humanitarian and social-economic development, working with U.N. agencies, international NGOs, large scale social development government programs, academic and research institutions, and public private partnership initiatives.

Vijay Sarma is vice president of pharmacy marketing at McCann Health Canada. He holds a bachelor of science degree in pharmacology and toxicology, as well as a bachelor of science degree in pharmacy. Vijay has spent time as a licensed pharmacist working in a primary care setting, regional or national pharmacy retail management, franchised pharmacy retail, and most recently in an expert agency environment with McCann Health Canada. He continues to practice in community pharmacy on a part-time basis.

As director, forced labor and human trafficking for Humanity United, Vijay manages work that touches on issues of worker agency, safer labor migration, and corporate accountability, including leading work that seeks to improve the experience and well-being of migrant workers traveling from Asia and Africa to the Gulf.

Vijeth Iyengar, Ph.D., serves as director of global aging at AARP where he leads cutting-edge research, drives thought leadership on global aging issues, and cultivates relationships and strategic alliances to promote AARP’s vision in service of older adults everywhere. Prior to joining AARP, Iyengar served as technical adviser to the U.S. deputy assistant secretary for aging and as a policy adviser to the fourth chief technology officer at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

Dr. Vik Mohan is a practicing doctor in the United Kingdom and director of community health at Blue Ventures Conservation. He is the founder of Blue Ventures' community health program and architect of its health-environment approach to conservation. Having witnessed firsthand the benefits of working in this multisectoral way, his work now focuses on supporting other organizations to replicate this approach.

Vikas Pota is the group chief executive of Tmrw Digital, which aims to help educational technology fulfill its great promise of extending quality education to every child throughout the world. By nurturing and investing in startups, curating conversations through events, and commissioning cutting-edge research, Tmrw Digital will connect the education and technology worlds by bringing together the edtech community — teachers, governments, entrepreneurs, and investors — to help them find better ways of understanding each other.

Vikram Widge is senior adviser at Climate Policy Initiative. He previously served as global head of climate finance and policy at the International Finance Corp. and has nearly three decades of experience structuring development finance.