Chris Clubb has 20+ years of experience financing development projects in more than 50 emerging and frontier markets. Prior to joining Convergence, he was the director leading European Bank for Reconstruction and Development’s financing/investment activities in its early transition countries where EBRD increased its annual investments five-fold to become the largest investor in these low-income countries.

Christopher East was a program manager on the DfID-funded President’s Delivery Team program in Sierra Leone, which provided technical assistance to the Sierra Leone government’s delivery unit in order to augment their delivery of the President’s post-Ebola recovery priorities. As part of Adam Smith International’s Public Sector Governance team, Christopher‘s foci are center of government reform, parliamentary strengthening and policy delivery.

Christopher Game is the chief procurement officer at the Global Fund, where he oversees the organization's approach to strategic sourcing and procuring of global health commodities for greater value and impact. He currently directs Procurement for Impact, a Global Fund initiative to set a new standard for global health procurement. He has previously worked for Novartis, Sandoz, Actavis and Abbott Laboratories.

Christopher Hirst has been with Palladium for 20 years. As CEO, he's passionate about positive impact whilst creating value for the company and our clients. Prior to his role as CEO, Christopher served as the managing director of strategy and corporate development. He led the organization's business and performance strategy. This included identifying, analysing and capturing new business opportunities globally; as well as impact investing asset management and impact investment advisory business services. In addition, as part of the global leadership team, he was a key decision maker in Palladium. Prior to this he oversaw Palladium's Middle East division for nine years including being seconded as the chief executive officer and board director of the Abu Dhabi Government's Farmers Service Centre for the latter 4 years. Christopher has also held senior management roles on numerous projects around the world as well as in Australia, the United States, Zimbabwe, and Papua New Guinea.

Christopher Ifeanyi-Nwanze is the director of communications and research at the Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Presidential Center for Women and Development. He previously headed the Open Society Initiative for West Africa’s communications unit and served as development communications officer with the U.N. Economic Commission for Africa’s African Institute for Economic Development and Planning.

Christopher Lim is the chief of the Pan American Health Organization’s Strategic Fund. Lim has more than 20 years of management consulting experience across various industries. He previously served as the head of strategic sourcing and supply chain management for a major pharmaceutical company and as an adjunct lecturer on program and project management and supply chain management at several universities.

Christopher Marquis is the Samuel C. Johnson professor in sustainable global enterprise at Cornell University and author of "Better Business: How the B Corp Movement Is Remaking Capitalism." His research focuses on how businesses are creating a more resilient and sustainable capitalism by focusing on the elusive triple bottom line of environmental, social, and financial performance.

Christopher McGahey is a WASH advisor to IMA World Health. He has been engaged for four decades in the management and application of public health engineering as a contributor to overall international development. His work has ranged from designing and managing USAID’s largest water supply, sanitation, and hygiene project to leading efforts to capture experiences and best practices from national programs for communication across the global water sector.

Christopher H. Purdy is the president and CEO of DKT International. From 1996 to 2011, he served as country director of DKT programs in Turkey, Ethiopia and Indonesia, where he managed the largest private social marketing family planning program in the world. He was also executive vice president from 2011-2013. His professional interests center on advancing the cause of social marketing for improved health, and socially responsible capitalism.

Christopher M. Schroeder is a U.S. based internet entrepreneur and venture investor, whose new book, Startup Rising: The Entrepreneurial Revolution Remaking the Middle East is released this month. He can be followed at @cmschroed.