Connie Veillette is a senior fellow for global food security and aid effectiveness at The Lugar Center and co-chair of the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network.

Conor Savoy is the executive director of the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network. He has over a decade of experience working on issues related to U.S. foreign policy and international development. Prior to joining MFAN, he was the director of Policy and Advocacy for the Global Innovation Fund, a social-first impact investor. Previously, he served as deputy director of the Project on Prosperity and Development at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. At CSIS, Conor helped build an innovative research program focused on the evolving role of the private sector in international development. He remains an active senior associate (nonresident) with his former program at CSIS. Earlier in his career, Conor worked as a researcher at the Council on Foreign Relations, concentrating on U.S. foreign and national security policy. He holds an M.A. in International Relations from Boston University and a B.A. with honors in History from George Washington University.

Constance Ching is a technical consultant on advocacy and implementation of the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes working with Alive & Thrive’s regional office in Southeast Asia. She has numerous years of experience in BMS code-related work, having previously worked for IBFAN-ICDC, a leading provider of capacity building programs to governments, U.N. agencies, and NGOs on BMS code implementation and monitoring. She has participated in numerous World Health Assembly and other global forums to advocate for stronger BMS code-related measures.

As senior team leader for gender equality and health at IntraHealth International, Constance Newman creates practical tools and methodologies to help decision-makers and leaders at all levels understand the challenges of gender inequality and what it means for the health workforce. Newman has over 25 years of experience in health and development, conducting research on gender discrimination in the health workforce in Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia and Kenya.

Dr. Constance Shumba has worked with several global health agencies in Africa and Asia over the last 19 years, leading the design and delivery of complex gender-responsive cross-sectoral programs in fragile settings. She has made distinctive contributions to health systems strengthening in evolving demographic, economic and disease contexts.

Constancia Mavodza is a passionate health equity advocate who hails from Harare, Zimbabwe. Consta is currently a Global Health Corps fellow at the Centre for Health and Gender Equity in Washington, D.C. where she is working as a sexual and reproductive health and right research analyst. Throughout her academic and professional trajectories, Consta strives to navigate the space where both gender and health equity intersect to achieve health for all.

H.E. Dr. Joyce Banda is the former president of Malawi. H.E. Dr. Bineta Diop is the African Union special envoy on women, peace, and security. Dr. Mary-Ann Etiebet is the lead and executive director at MSD for Mothers. Pape Amadou Gaye is the president and CEO at IntraHealth. Dr. Edna Adan Ismail is the director and founder of the Edna Adan Maternity Hospital and former foreign minister of Somaliland. Dr. Mariam Claeson is thedirector of the Global Financing Facility.

Jeffrey Drope is vice president of Economic and Health Policy Research at the American Cancer Society and professor in residence of global public health at Marquette University. Fastone Goma is director of the Centre for Primary Care Research in the School of Medicine and associate professor of Physiology & Cardiovascular Health at the University of Zambia. Ronald Labonté is distinguished research chair in Globalization and Health Equity and professor in the School of Public Health and Epidemiology at the University of Ottawa. Raphael Lencucha is an assistant professor in the School of Physical and Occupational Therapy at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. Qing Li is a scientist on the Economic and Health Policy Research team at the American Cancer Society. Peter Magati is a development economist with extensive research experience in the economics of tobacco farming and livelihoods. Gumilang Sahadewo is an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at Universitas Gadjah Mada in Indonesia. Firman Witoelar is a fellow at the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University.

Mara Hansen Staples is a partner and co-founder of Impact for Health, a boutique firm focused on scaling effective innovations in women’s health and primary care. Kariane St-Denis is an associate at Impact for Health. Ann Allen is a program officer in systems innovation at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Prashant Yadav is affiliate professor of technology and operations management at INSEAD and a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development.

Ruth Faber is the CEO of EU-CORD. Shahin Ashraf, MBE, is the head of global advocacy at Islamic Relief Worldwide. Floris Faber is the director of EU advocacy at ACT Alliance EU. Silvia Sinibaldi is the humanitarian director of Caritas Europa.