Viktor Liashko is the longest-serving minister of health in Ukraine's independent history. His leadership and dedication have initiated significant long-term projects and reforms, making a lasting impact on the nation's health sector.

Vinca LaFleur is a co-executive director at West Wing Writers, a speechwriting and strategy firm based in Washington, D.C. LaFleur has served as a foreign policy speechwriter for former U.S. President Bill Clinton.

Vince Chadwick is a contributing reporter at Devex. A law graduate from Melbourne, Australia, he was social affairs reporter for The Age newspaper, before covering breaking news, the arts, and public policy across Europe, including as a reporter and editor at POLITICO Europe. He was long-listed for International Journalist of the Year at the 2023 One World Media Awards.

Vincent Akamandisa is a gender advisor with ACDI/VOCA who has more than 25 years of experience addressing gender and development, human rights and HIV/AIDS issues in Zambia and sub-Sahara Africa. Akamandisa has served as an educator, practitioner, evaluator and advocate for gender issues through his experience working with rural groups of men, women and youths and collaborating with many different partners and stakeholders at different levels and in different sectors.

Dr. Vineeta Gupta is a maternal and child health physician, human rights lawyer, and lifelong health equity advocate. She is currently the director of the ACTION Secretariat.

Vinita Bali is an Indian businesswoman who was formerly the managing director of Britannia Industries Limited. Vinita was awarded the Business Woman of the Year award at the 2009 Economic Times Awards. In 2009, she founded the Britannia Nutrition Foundation which combats child malnutrition through the distribution of fortified biscuits to Indian schoolchildren.

Vinod Thomas is currently visiting professor at National University of Singapore, and distinguished fellow in development management at the Asian Institute of Management, Manila. Previously, he was director-general of independent evaluation at the Asian Development Bank. Prior to ADB, Vinod Thomas served as director-general of the Independent Evaluation Group at the World Bank from 2006 to 2011.

Vinoj Manning oversees Ipas Development Foundation's efforts to improve the environment for safe abortion and increase access to comprehensive contraceptive care in the country. Vinoj, who has more than three decades of marketing and program management experience, is particularly interested in strengthening the capacity of health systems to provide high-quality abortion and contraceptive care and improving the evidence base for the provision of safe abortion care.

Violaine Mitchell oversees a team that works to empower national governments to sustainably finance and manage primary health care systems. Before joining the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in 2010, Mitchell worked at GAVI, the Vaccine Alliance as the coordinator of a financing task force and was responsible for coordinating the early work on national financial sustainability planning and global innovative financing.

Violeta Gonzalez Behar is head of partnerships, communications, and resource mobilization at the Enhanced Integrated Framework, a sustainable trade multilateral partnership at the World Trade Organization. In this capacity, she leads a global team in helping EIF build strategic partnerships, communicate results, and secure financing for operations in 51 developing economies.