Yetnebersh Nigussie is a senior inclusion advisor at Light for the World and a 2017 Right Livelihood Award Laureate.

Yinka Oyinlola is CEO of the Nigeria Leadership Initiative. A seasoned international development leader with over 30 years experience in executive and management roles with the United Nations, the World Bank and USAID as well as in the private sector, his areas of expertise include public and government affairs, major project and strategic management, policy formulation and performance monitoring and evaluation.

Y-Ling Chi is a senior policy analyst at the Center for Global Development.

Yogesh Rajkotia is the founder and CEO of ThinkWell (ThinkWell.global), an organization aimed at helping countries to achieve universal health coverage. Yogesh has supported major health systems reforms in over 25 countries and served as adviser to ministers and secretaries around the world. Previously, he provided leadership to USAID’s health systems strengthening efforts. He holds a doctorate from Johns Hopkins University.

Yolande Wright is the vice president of partnerships at GiveDirectly. She was previously global director of child poverty, climate and urban at Save the Children, and worked for over 20 years for DFID, including as head of the livelihoods profession. She is a passionate advocate for cash, social protection, and climate justice.

Yomi Kazeem is Salient's market intelligence lead on African health technology, tracking companies' growth and impact, and advising global clients on trends. Prior to joining Salient, he was a reporter at Quartz Media, covering African startups and the biggest trends across the continent's tech and innovation ecosystems.

Yonov Frederick Agah was appointed as Nigeria’s ambassador to the WTO in 2005. In that capacity, he served as the alternate chief negotiator for the Doha Round and Head of Nigeria's Trade Office to the WTO in the Permanent Mission of Nigeria to the United Nations Office in Geneva. Mr. Agah served as chair of the WTO's General Council in 2011. He was responsible for organizing the Eighth WTO Ministerial Conference, which was acknowledged to be successful despite the prevailing stalemate in the Doha Round.

Young Uck Kang currently leads the Development Asia project at ADB. His areas of expertise are knowledge management, economic and social development policy, public finance, cost benefit analysis, income distribution, policymaking process, and strategic leadership. Before joining ADB in July 2014, he was a professor at KDI School of Public Policy and Management in the Republic of Korea. He has a Ph.D. and M.Phil in public administration from New York University, MPP from University of Chicago, and MBA from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Yousef Al Shawarbeh is the mayor of Amman, Jordan, and the chairman of Amman Vision Investment and Development. He is a member of the UNSG Advisory Group on Local and Regional Governments and a founding member of the Mayors Migration Council. He’s a former minister of political development and parliamentary affairs.

Yuen Yuen Ang is associate professor of political science at the University of Michigan, who studies global development and Chinese political economy. She is the author of How China Escaped the Poverty Trap (Cornell University Press, Series in Political Economy, 2016), winner of the 2017 Peter Katzenstein Book Prize. In 2017, she served on the United Nations Expert Group on Eradicating Poverty.