Barbara Rambousek is the EBRD’s acting director for gender and economic inclusion. She designed and leads the bank’s work on gender equality and economic inclusion that creates access to economic opportunity for women, youth and refugees through private sector investments and policy dialogue. Key areas are access to employment and skills, entrepreneurship and services. Ms. Rambousek has 20 years leadership experience in the design and delivery of multisectoral inclusion, gender and development programs in Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and the U.K.

Dr. Barbara Stilwell has worked throughout the world as a champion for health workers and strong health systems. Before joining Nursing Now, she was IntraHealth International’s senior director of health workforce solutions and recently served as director of a health workforce and systems strengthening project in the West Bank and Gaza. In 2008, Stilwell was named one of the most influential nurses of the past 40 years by the U.K.’s Nursing Times.

Barbara H. Wells is director general of the International Potato Center. With over 30 years of experience in agriculture and forestry, her areas of expertise include research, general management, strategic planning, regulatory processes, and the technical development and commercialization of products in agricultural and forestry markets throughout the world. Throughout her career, Dr. Wells has worked directly with farmers to apply science to improve their livelihoods and productivity.

Bård Vegar Solhjell is director general of the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation, or Norad. He is deputy chair of the Fritt Ord (Free Word) Foundation, and a board member of Norway’s second-biggest renewable energy company, Hafslund. He was a member of the Norwegian Parliament from 2009 to 2017, minister of education from 2007 to 2009, minister of the environment from 2012 to 2013 and a state secretary for prime minister Jens Stoltenberg from 2005 to 2007.

Lindsay Northover is Parliamentary undersecretary of state at the Department for International Development. Prior to 2010, she was Liberal Democrat spokeswoman on international development in the House of Lords. She is a former trustee of UNICEF, the Tropical Health and Education Trust, a former council member of the Overseas Development Institute and chaired Women Liberal Democrats. Her first degree was from Oxford; her doctorate from the U.S., and she was a lecturer at University College, London.

Baroness Jenny Tonge is a member of the U.K. House of Lords. She is well known for her advocacy of development issues, especially family planning, and is president of the European Parliamentary Forum on Population and Development.

Barry Johnston is associate director of advocacy at Malala Fund, the organization co-founded by Nobel Laureate Malala Yousafzai. Malala Fund campaigns for all girls to have access to 12 years of free, safe, quality education. Barry is based in London and leads the organization's international advocacy. He has worked previously at Amnesty International, ActionAid and Christian Aid.

Bart W. Édes is director of the Asian Development Bank’s poverty reduction, gender, and social development division, and chairman of ADB’s social development and poverty community of practice.

Bart Édes is Professor of Practice at McGill University’s Institute for the Study of International Development and author of Learning from Tomorrow: Using Strategic Foresight to Prepare for the Next Big Disruption. He advises development organizations on communications, knowledge management, strategy development, and partnership engagement and mentors university students on employment opportunities in international development.

Bart Édes is a professor of practice at McGill University’s Institute for the Study of International Development, and distinguished fellow at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada. He regularly mentors university students and young professionals on employment opportunities in international development.