Charles Petrie is a former U.N. assistant secretary general. He has more than 30 years of experience working in conflict and post-conflict settings. He was named Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 2014.

Charlie Warren earned his master's in international development and security at the University of Bristol after completing a bachelor's in politics and sociology there. He has worked on non-profit community projects in Rwanda, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Thailand and Madagascar. He freelanced for both a political risk company and a current affairs magazine in London. Charlie was a fellow in our Manila office from November 2007 to April 2008. He is fluent in English and French and speaks basic Spanish and Tagalog.

Charles E. Owubah, Ph.D., is the CEO of Action Against Hunger, a nonprofit global humanitarian organization that is innovating solutions, advocating for change, and reaching 28 million people every year with proven hunger prevention and treatment programs. With more than 25 years in the humanitarian sector, he has deep technical expertise and extensive experience in program design, monitoring and evaluation, and management of sustainable water, food security, and emergency relief programs. Originally from Ghana, Owubah earned his Master of Science and doctorate in Natural Resource Management and Policy from Purdue University.

The Most Rev. Charles Gabriel Palmer-Buckle is metropolitan archbishop of Cape Coast in Ghana and vice president of the Ghana Catholic Bishops' Conference. He is also Episcopal promoter of the conference’s Laudato Sí Action Programme, which seeks to respond to local and global crises from the lens of a call to action by Pope Francis. He was previously bishop of the Koforidua Diocese and Accra Archdiocese. He was ordained a priest in 1976 and has been a bishop for 29 years.

In 2013, Charlie Bresler became volunteer executive director of The Life You Can Save, a nonprofit dedicated to reducing extreme poverty and its devastating effects on over 700 million people globally. Through his financial support and leadership, Charlie has helped TLYCS’s founder, Peter Singer, develop the organization from the ground up.

Charlie Goldsmith came to Juba, South Sudan in 2006 and has lived and worked in Africa since. He founded Charlie Goldsmith Associates in 2011, which joined the Corus family in 2019 and became CGA Technologies. Charlie continues to work as a senior technical adviser on education, social protection, and the cash and data systems. He currently leads CGA Technologies’ social cash transfers work in Malawi, humanitarian cash response in Ukraine, and Colet Mentoring partnership.

A 25-year veteran of the global events fraternity Charlie Wright founded a leading events business in the United Arab Emirates that is today part of the Arena Group, one of the world’s iconic event groups. His extensive experience has made him recognize the need for a transparent global platform that can connect a fragmented events industry.

Charlotte de Harder specializes in polylateral governance for sustainable development and peace. She is employed by Cordaid — a Dutch development organization based in The Hague — and represents the Civil Society Platform for Peacebuilding and Statebuilding.

Charlotte Ntim is a disruptive technology officer with the International Finance Corporation’s gender and economic inclusion group, where she leads the Digital2Equal peer-learning program and supports advisory engagements with clients in the tech sector. Her previous experience includes consulting on project design and supervising implementation of World Bank projects in innovation, SME finance, tourism, and clean technology.

Charlotte Petri Gornitzka was elected as chair of the Development Assistance Committee in 2016. Prior to this, she served as director-general of the Swedish International Development Co-operation Agency where she emphasized Sweden’s role as leader in development cooperation and led efforts to implement innovative models to stimulate private sector engagement in development activities.