Dr. BT Slingsby is CEO and executive director of the GHIT Fund. Previously, he was director for Global Access Strategies for Eisai Co., Ltd. where he developed new business models for R&D and market access in the developing world. Prior to joining Eisai Co., Ltd., he helped launch numerous startups in Japan and the U.S.

Bukola "Buki" Onyishi joined Women for Women International – Nigeria as a field officer nearly 20 years ago, supporting the identification of program participants and collecting monitoring and evaluation data. Since then, she has held a variety of roles, including finance and administration manager and deputy country director. In 2016, Buki became country director at the Nigeria office, leading all of Women for Women International’s work in the nation.

Bunita Sawhney is the executive vice president of consumer products and processing at Mastercard and a member of the company’s management committee. She oversees all consumer and issuer product offerings, including the company’s credit, debit, and prepaid products as well as environmental, social, and governance product innovations. In this key leadership role, she is responsible for enabling more secure and innovative ways for consumers to make everyday purchases.

Sanjit "Bunker" Roy is the founder and director of Barefoot College — the only college in India built and managed by the rural poor who earn less than $1 a day. In the 20 years that the demystified and decentralized community-based Barefoot approach has been implemented in more than 30 of the least developed countries, a total of 36,000 houses in 1,024 villages have been given access to solar energy by nearly 300 illiterate rural grandmother

Burton Bollag is a freelance journalist living in Washington, D.C. He was based for a number of years in Europe (Geneva, Prague and Bratislava) and as chief international reporter for Chronicle of Higher Education reported widely from Europe, Africa and the Middle East. He has also done radio reporting (for NPR from Geneva) and TV reporting from various locations.

Bushra Zulfiqar is the regional director Asia at Terre des Hommes Netherlands. She has over two decades-long work experience in international development and human rights, both at the policymaking and implementation levels in Asia and around the world.

Caitlin Baron is the founder and CEO at the Luminos Fund, an education nonprofit dedicated to giving the world’s most vulnerable, out-of-school children a second chance to learn. Luminos has set 152,051 children across Ethiopia, Liberia, and Lebanon on a path to lifelong learning.

Caitlin Bryan is currently pursuing her master of public health at Boston University School of Public Health where she is concentrating in monitoring and evaluation. She is completing her practicum at the International Center for Research on Women where she analyzes qualitative data and prepares dissemination materials on stigma and discrimination in the Global Health, Youth, and Development portfolio.

Caitlin Gruer is a senior program associate at Plan International USA, where she works as part of the water, sanitation and health practice. Her work focuses on menstrual hygiene management, sustainable WASH programming, and the intersection between WASH and nutrition. She has a master's in global health and sociomedical sciences from Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. She currently lives in Washington, D.C.

Caitlin Horrigan is the director of global advocacy at Planned Parenthood Action Fund. With over a decade of foreign policy experience, Caitlin helps drive global advocacy agenda with the U.S. Congress and administration to protect and expand funding and policies that advance sexual and reproductive health and rights worldwide.