Akash Goel is a physician and journalist. He is a World Economic Forum Global Shaper.

A. Kayum Ahmed is an assistant professor at Columbia University’s School of Public Health in New York where he teaches health and human rights advocacy. Ahmed holds a Ph.D. in Education from Columbia University as well as various law degrees from the universities of Oxford, Cape Town, and Leiden. In addition, he has degrees in anthropology and theology. His interdisciplinary research interests include human rights, vaccine justice, Indigenous epistemologies, and decolonizing the global health architecture.

Akhter Ahmed is a senior research fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute and country representative for IFPRI's Bangladesh office.

Akihiko Nishio is the World Bank's vice president for development finance.

Akihiro Seita is the director of health for UNRWA and is based in Amman, Jordan.

Akinwumi Adesina is the president of the African Development Bank Group. A globally recognized international development expert, Adesina is also the 2019 Forbes Africa Person of the Year and the 2017 World Food Prize recipient.

Akio Hosono is the director of the JICA Research Institute, as well as a professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies in Tokyo. He served as the ambassador of Japan to El Salvador from 2002 to 2007. Hosono received his doctorate in economics from the University of Tokyo in 1984, and he has written extensively about South-South cooperation and economic development in Latin America.

A native of Iraq, Dr. Ala Alwan graduated in medicine from the University of Alexandria, Egypt, and has postgraduate qualifications from the United Kingdom. He has worked in clinical and academic medicine and public health and was minister of health in the government of Iraq from 2003 to 2005. Prior to his current role as regional director of the Eastern Mediterranean region of the World Health Organization, Dr. Alwan was assistant director-general for noncommunicable diseases and mental health at WHO.

Dr. Alaa Murabit is the founder of the Voice of Libyan Women, a women's empowerment and development organization which focuses on women, peace and security through both practical on-the-ground measures as well as legal and policy change. She is a member of the High-Level Advisory Group for the Global Study on the implementation of Security Council Resolution 1325 — commissioned by the U.N. secretary-general for which U.N. Women is the secretaria