Binaifer Nowrojee is the incoming president of the Open Society Foundations, the world’s largest private funder of independent groups working for justice, democratic governance, and human rights.

Bing Zhao is the director and global coordinator of Purchase for Progress (P4P) at the World Food Programme. He has extensive experience in promoting the role of agricultural development in support of food security, rural livelihoods and South-South cooperation for sustainable agriculture, from his previous capacities as head of the Centre for Sustainable Agricultural Mechanism of UNESCAP and as the deputy director-general of the Chinese Agricultural Ministry’s Centre for International Cooperation and Service. Mr. Zhao holds a Ph.D. in economics and law with a specialization on consumers and markets.

Bipasha Ray is vice president of scalable solutions at Panorama Global, where she designed and facilitated the pilot peer learning cohort of Panorama’s CLIP Initiative. Her work focuses on supporting social entrepreneurs and social change leaders to implement their work through fiscal sponsorship and other partnership models, and co-leading efforts to deepen learning and knowledge sharing across the nonprofit and philanthropic sectors.

Birgitte Bischoff Ebbesen is international director of the Danish Red Cross.

Birhan Gebrekirstos is co-author of “Meqanit” (Tearing the body, breaking the spirit) and founder of Wegahta CSO. She is a human rights activist and volunteers in humanitarian organizations where she documents human rights violations and sexual violations. She is a researcher and lecturer at Mekelle University’s Mekelle Institute of Technology.

Bjorn Lomborg is the director of the Copenhagen Consensus Center. He is the author of the best-selling book "The Skeptical Environmentalist." His most recent essay, “Promises to Keep: Crafting Better Development Goals,” is published on the November/December 2014 issue of Foreign Affairs.

Björn Andersson joined the United Nations Population Fund Asia-Pacific Regional Office as its director in September 2017. Prior to this, he served as chief of staff to two UNFPA executive directors.

Blair Glencorse is founder and executive director of the Accountability Lab. Previously, he worked on issues of state and market-building across Africa, Asia the Middle-East and Latin America at the Institute for State Effectiveness and the Aspen Institute, and on post-conflict and fragile states at the World Bank. Glencorse is a frequent commentator on development issues for media outlets including CNN, The Independent, and WABC Radio, among others. In 2011 during the Arab Awakenings, Blair was honored as a UN Fellow for the Middle East and North Africa, and in 2012 he won the Johns Hopkins Outstanding Recent Graduate Award for his work on accountability.

Blair Hanewall is the deputy director for integrated delivery at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Blessing Mutama is the director of Farm Orphan Support Trust in Zimbabwe, which supports orphans and vulnerable children in farm communities. He regularly presents research papers at international conferences and is a seasoned practitioner with over 20 years of experience. He is a trustee and vice chair of Family for Every Child.