Ados Velez May is a senior technical adviser at the IBP Network secretariat. He provides technical leadership engaging the network member organizations on a variety of issues such as documenting effective practices in family planning, dissemination of high-impact practices, and knowledge management. He has over 20 years of experience in international public health program design, technical assistance, management, and capacity building, focusing on HIV/AIDS and reproductive health.

Adrian Lovett is the executive director for the United Kingdom, Middle East, and Asia Pacific at ONE. He has been instrumental in successful campaigns such as Make Poverty History and the Jubilee 2000 debt relief initiative, and has held leadership roles at Oxfam, Save the Children, and the World Wide Web Foundation.

Adriana Parejo Pagador is an advocacy communications officer at the Dutch development aid organization Cordaid, with expertise in global health, climate, migration, and gender. She has five years of experience working in the development and humanitarian field. She holds a Master of Science in International Development Studies from the University of Amsterdam, as well as a Master of Science in Public Administration of Migration and Diversity from the Erasmus University Rotterdam.

Adriana Blanco Marquizo is head of the Secretariat of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.

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.