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.

Chase Sova is the senior director of public policy and research at World Food Program USA and the author of Winning The Peace: Hunger and Instability.

As a senior staff writer, Che focuses on international development breaking news coverage as well as interviews and features. Prior to joining Devex, Che handled communications for local and international development NGOs and government institutions in the Philippines.

Cheena Kapoor is a Delhi-based independent journalist and photographer focusing on health, environmental, and social issues. Her work has been published by The Guardian, The Telegraph, Reuters, BBC, and Al Jazeera, among many others. Her long-term project "Forgotten daughters" about abandoned women in Indian mental asylums has been widely published and exhibited across Europe. Follow Cheena on Twitter and Instagram.

Chelsey R. Canavan is a research and communications specialist with Management Sciences for Health, a global non-profit that develops sustainable health systems in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. She also serves as deputy coordinator of Health for All Post-2015, a global campaign of civil society organizations advocating for universal health coverage in the post-2015 development agenda. She was an ASPPH Allan Rosenfield Global Health Fellow at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and has a MSPH in health policy and management from the University of North Carolina.

Chelsey R. Canavan is a research and communications specialist with Management Sciences for Health. Prior to joining MSH, she was an Allan Rosenfield global health fellow at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She has a master's in public health from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

José María (Chema) Vera is the interim executive director of Oxfam International. He first joined Oxfam Intermón as director of Madrid headquarters and soon after as campaigns and policy director. Between 2006 and 2012, he worked for the Ibero-American General Secretariat, coordinating the programs of its heads of state summits. In 2012, he re-joined Oxfam Intermón as executive director.

Cheng Feng is the chair of the China Alliance for South-South Health Cooperation Research and a professor at Tsinghua University Research Center for Public Health. He is also the China country director of Global Health Strategies initiatives, a not-for-profit focused on engaging local stakeholders and new champions in developing countries to elevate key global health issues.

Cherie Blair is a lawyer, a committed campaigner for women’s rights and the wife of former U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair. She set up the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women in 2008 to help women build small and growing businesses in developing and emerging markets so that they can contribute to their economies and have a stronger voice in their societies. For more information about the work of the foundation, visit: www.cherieblairfoundation.org.

Chernor Bah is Sierra Leone's minister of information and civic education.