Adriano Campolina has been the chief executive of ActionAid International since April 2014 and is based at the headquarters in Johannesburg. A native of Brazil, Adriano was previously executive director of ActionAid Brazil, where he led the transformation of the organization from a nationally-focused poverty eradication agency to one that mobilizes support domestically and abroad. Having started his working life as a farmer, Campolina became an agronomist and throughout his career has campaigned for land and food rights in Brazil and internationally.

Adrienne Valdez is a former staff writer for Devex, covering breaking international development news. Before joining Devex, Adrienne worked as a news correspondent for a public-sector modernization publication.

Adva Saldinger is a Senior Reporter at Devex where she covers development finance, as well as U.S. foreign aid policy. Adva explores the role the private sector and private capital play in development and authors the weekly Devex Invested newsletter bringing the latest news on the role of business and finance in addressing global challenges. A journalist with more than 10 years of experience, she has worked at several newspapers in the U.S. and lived in both Ghana and South Africa.

Aerie Changala is director of international operations since 2011. Having spent the majority of his adult life living throughout Europe and sub-Saharan Africa, Aerie has traveled extensively, speaks seven languages and brings a global perspective to his work at Nuru. He served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Burkina Faso and specialized in microfinance.

Afshan Khan is the coordinator of the Scaling Up Nutrition Movement. With over 30 years as an international public official, she previously served as UNICEF regional director for Europe and Central Asia and as special coordinator for the refugee and migrant response in Europe. Khan also contributed to various U.N. initiatives and briefly served as CEO of Women for Women International. Born in Hyderabad, India, and raised in Montreal, Canada, she holds a master's degree in Public Policy from Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies and a bachelor's degree in Political Science from McGill University.

Aggrey Agumya is the executive director of the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA). FARA is the technical arm of the Africa.

Professor Agnes Binagwaho is the vice chancellor of the University of Global Health Equity, a global university in the rural north of Rwanda focused on changing the way health care is delivered around the world by training the next generation of global health professionals to provide more equitable, quality health services for all. She is a Rwandan pediatrician who has served the health sector in various high-level government positions, first as the executive secretary of Rwanda's National AIDS Control Commission, then as permanent secretary of the Ministry of Health, and then for five years as minister of health.

Agnes Callamard serves as the executive director of ARTICLE 19, a human rights organization that defends and promotes freedom of expression and freedom of information all over the world. Established in 1987, ARTICLE 19 fights for all hostages of censorship, defends dissenting voices that have been muzzled, and campaigns against laws and practices that silence.

Agnes Kalibata has served as the president of AGRA since 2014, where she leads the organization’s efforts with public and private partners to ensure a food-secure and prosperous Africa through rapid, inclusive, sustainable agricultural growth, improving the productivity and livelihoods of millions of smallholder farmers in Africa. Prior to joining AGRA, Kalibata was Rwanda’s minister of agriculture and animal resources, and from 2019 to 2021, Kalibata served as the special envoy of the U.N. secretary-general for the 2021 Food Systems Summit.