Caroline Heider is director general of the Independent Evaluation Group at the World Bank, a position she has held since 2011. She has dedicated the last 30 years of her career to evaluating the work of development and humanitarian organizations, transforming findings into lessons and promoting innovative ways for institutions to apply the knowledge derived from evaluations towards accelerating development effectiveness. Before IEG, Heider headed the Office of Evaluation at the World Food Program and has held leading positions in the evaluation offices of the Asian Development Bank and several U.N. agencies.

Caroline Hickson is the regional director of the IPPF European Network. She has worked in the NGO sector for over 30 years across the U.S., Ireland, the U.K., Germany, and Belgium covering a variety of sectors including health, homelessness, international development, humanitarian relief, fair trade, and human rights.

Caroline Holt has worked with cash programming in the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, or IFRC, for the last 16 years. During this time, she has overseen the use of humanitarian cash in response to crisis from various perspectives, including financial management, implementation, and policy development. Caroline currently leads the Global Cash Team at IFRC and is proud to be part of a global movement that delivers around 1 billion Swiss francs ($1.1 billion) in humanitarian cash each year.

Caroline Korda Poole directs professional development, career advising, and employer relations for the Master of International Development Policy program at Duke University. In this role, Caroline helps mid-career graduate students to obtain internships and employment with leading institutions in international development, like the World Bank, Oxfam, and various funds and programs of the United Nations. Prior to joining Duke, Caroline helped to launch a global health startup in New York called Touch Foundation, and served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Togo, West Africa.

Caroline Mukeku is a gender expert with Tanager, working on the Impacting Gender & Nutrition through Innovative Technical Exchange in Agriculture project. She provides leadership on the development of tools, resources, and models that will facilitate the integration of gender into agriculture interventions within African institutions. Caroline brings over 12 years of program implementation experience in gender mainstreaming; community mobilization; participatory research; monitoring, learning, and evaluation; and grants management.

Caroline Roan is the chief sustainability officer and senior vice president of global health and social impact at Pfizer Inc. and president of The Pfizer Foundation. At Pfizer, she has been responsible for guiding philanthropic investments, deploying disaster relief funding, overseeing colleague community engagement, and ensuring equitable access to Pfizer’s medicines and vaccines. She has helped shape Pfizer’s global health strategy, long-term public-private partnerships, and investments to improve public health systems.

Caroline Van Cauwelaert is CEO at EPCON. She has a background in product innovation and economics. She has been working as an innovation consultant for many years up to the moment when she became general manager at a digital innovation agency of about 35 people in Antwerp. In 2021 she invested in EPCON and became CEO. Her ambition is to make EPCON “incontournable” in the world of public health.

Carol Michaels O'Laughlin serves as group vice president of empowerment & civic engagement at Winrock International, overseeing programs in gender equality and women’s empowerment, leadership and NGO capacity building, and social protection. Michaels O’Laughlin has devoted more than 40 years to international development and relations, managing and advising programs for the U.S. government, private sector and NGOs in areas such as governance, evaluation, strategic planning, development of indigenous philanthropy and advocacy.

Carolyn Forbes is assistant director of the Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict at Arizona State University, which advances research and education on the dynamics of religion and conflict in global affairs.

Carolyn MacDonald is nutrition director and founder of the Nutrition Center of Expertise at World Vision International. She holds an M.Sc. and a Ph.D. in nutrition from the University of Guelph. She has worked for over 25 years in international nutrition programming, policy and research, recently spearheading World Vision’s nutrition scale-up. She has also served as steering group member on the global Scaling Up Nutrition Civil Society Network since 2013. Learn more about World Vision’s nutrition work at http://wvi.org/nutrition.