Kirsten Gelsdorf is a professor of practice and director of global humanitarian policy at the Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. Amanda Nguyen, Ph.D, is an assistant professor at Curry School of Education and Human Development. Lucy Bassett is an associate professor of public policy at Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. Dani Poole is a postdoctoral fellow at Neukom Institute for Computational Science at Dartmouth College.

Kent Buse, Sarah Hawkes, Athena Pantazis, Anna Purdie, and Sonja Tanaka of Global Health 50/50; Siki Kikongo, Michelle Mbuthia, Sylvia Muyingo, and Moreen Nkonge of the the African Population and Health Research Center; and Kakoli Borkotoky, Abhishek Gautaum, Ketaki Nagaraju, and Sneha Sharma of the International Center for Research on Women.

San Bilal is senior executive and head of program for trade, investment, and finance at the European Centre for Development Policy Management. Manuel Bueno is a partner at Greensquare Ventures with a background in the development and implementation of impact and conservation funds and products. Nancy Lee is senior policy fellow at the Center for Global Development. Valeria Ramundo Orlando is a partner at Greensquare Ventures with extensive experience in designing and managing environmental, social, and governance financial products and facilities for private equity funds and multilateral development banks.

The Community Health Impact Coalition exists to make professionalized community health workers a norm worldwide. Members of CHIC and co-authors of this piece are: Carey Carpenter Westgate, deputy director at CHIC; Mathilde Hutchings, director of partnerships at PIVOT Works, Inc.; Nandini Choudhury, adviser at Possible Health; Helen Olsen, monitoring and evaluation senior manager at Medic, and Madeleine Ballard, executive director at CHIC.

Rob Floyd is the innovation and digital policy director at the African Center for Economic Transformation, or ACET, leading initiatives to support Africa’s digital transformation through artificial intelligence, digital infrastructure, and green industrialization. Mma Amara Ekeruche is a senior research fellow at the Centre for the Study of the Economies of Africa, Nigeria’s premier economic think tank. Martin Kessler is the executive director of the Finance for Development Lab. Beverly Musili is an international development finance expert and a practicing lawyer in Kenya.

Cordelia Lonsdale is a policy and engagement adviser at Development Initiatives, an independent international development organisation focused on ending poverty by 2030. Cordelia works to inform policymakers and influence global policy processes, particularly to enhance the transparency and effectiveness of development finance.

Corey Luthringer is a senior associate at the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition. She has been a GAIN consultant on a variety of projects since 2014, working primarily within large-scale food fortification and issues of improving fortified food quality and regulatory monitoring. Since 2012, she has studied and consulted with various global health and nutrition organizations in Latin America, South Asia, Europe, and Africa, including BRAC in Bangladesh and the U.N. World Food Program in Italy and the regional bureau in Egypt, where she specialized in emergency nutrition and resilience building.

Corina Gardner is the chief executive officer of the IDP Foundation — a global philanthropy dedicated to advancing affordable nonstate education in low- and lower-middle-income countries. The philanthropy has been running the Rising Schools program in Ghana for 15 years and launched the Ongoza program in Kenya in 2022.

Corina Villacorta is executive advisor on child rights for World Vision International in New York. With over 30 years experience in NGO leadership, she was previously regional vice president for the organization's operations in Latin America and the Caribbean. Recently she has also been involved in advancing the participation of children and young people in the post-2015 development agenda.