Wayne L. Firestone is the CEO of International Lifeline Fund, a Washington, D.C.-​based NGO that promotes deep community engagement in bottom-of-the-pyramid countries by implementing low​-​cost and highly replicable interventions. Firestone is a Georgetown-​educated international lawyer, Kogod entrepreneur fellow at American University Business School​ and member of the Washington Chapter of the Society for International Development.

Wellington Chibebe was elected deputy general secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation in 2011. Prior to taking up that position, he served as secretary general of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions. He joined the ZCTU in 2001 having previously served as president of the national Railway Workers’ Union, which he joined in 1988 after serving his apprenticeship as a diesel plant fitter. Wellington represented Zimbabwe’s trade union movement on numerous occasions at the annual International Labor Conference and various other major international meetings.

Wendy Kopp is CEO and co-founder of Teach For All, a global network of independent organizations that are cultivating their nations’ promising future leaders to ensure their most marginalized children have the chance to fulfill their true potential.

Wendy Walford is head of nature and climate risk at Legal & General, focusing on integrating climate and nature risks into financial frameworks. She is also a member of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries sustainability board and co-lead of the policy track for the Net Zero Asset Owner Alliance.

Wendyam Micheline Kaboré is a committed human rights activist and feminist dedicated to an egalitarian world that respects the rights of women and girls. Passionate about gender and development studies, she is convinced that the development and well-being of women and girls depends on their empowerment, their resilience and active leadership. Interested in gender relations in sub-Saharan Africa and their impact on the lives of millions of women and girls, Kaboré assumes the leadership of Initiative Pananetugri pour le Bien-être de la Femme since January 2020.

Wendy Freeman Carr leads Deloitte’s work in institutional strengthening and capacity development in emerging markets. She is a principal thought leader and architect of Deloitte’s award-winning performance-based capacity development approach. She has over 20 years of experience leading and advising large-scale transformation efforts, in the U.S. and abroad, on how to design and operationalize high-performing organizations using human capital and change management principles.

Werner Hoyer has been president of the European Investment Bank since 2012. Before that, he served for 24 years as a member of the German Bundestag. During this period, he held the position of minister of state at the Foreign Office on two separate occasions.

Werner Liepach is the director general of the Central and West Asia Department at the Asian Development Bank. He assumed office in February 2018. Mr. Liepach oversees the definition and execution of the departmental strategy and business plan, as well as the day-to-day management of operations of the department. He is responsible to oversee ADB’s regional portfolio, which now stands at $18.6 billion for over 155 projects in seven sector divisions at ADB headquarters and 10 country offices, covering energy; environment, natural resources and agriculture; transport, public management, financial sector, and trade; regional cooperation and operations coordination; social; and urban and water development.

Werner Schultink is associate director in the program division of UNICEF in New York and chief of nutrition. He joined UNICEF in April 1999 and has held a number of senior positions both at headquarters in New York, where he was a senior nutrition adviser, and in the India country office, where he led the child development and nutrition section.