Dakota Gruener is executive director of the ID2020 Alliance, a nonprofit organization focused on improving lives through digital identity. At ID2020, Dakota leads overall strategy, builds critical partnerships with public and private sector stakeholders, and continually focuses the organization on an ethics-first approach. She launched the ID2020 Alliance following her work at Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, where she served as an aide-de-camp to the CEO.

Dame Barbara Stocking is president emerita of Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge, the chair of the Panel for a Global Public Health Convention, and former chief executive of Oxfam GB.

Dame Tessa Jowell is a British politician and former cabinet member under the Labor governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, as well as architect of the London Olympics and MP since 1992. She is currently involved in drawing up a plan to include early intervention schemes like the Sure Start program she founded in the U.K. in the country's international development assistance policy.

Damian Halloran is Abbott’s vice president of infectious disease in emerging markets and rapid diagnostics. Halloran has worked in all the major business units in Abbott, starting his career in Ireland in 1986 where he joined the Hospital Products Plant as a graduate engineer.

Dan Hymowitz is head of insight and learning at the Tony Blair Africa Governance Initiative. From November 2014 to March 2015, Dan was an adviser to the head of the task force that managed the Ebola response in Montserrado county which includes Monrovia. He supported the design and implementation of the task force’s strategy to decentralize management of the response to hubs in four parts of the county.

Dan LeClair is the CEO of the Global Business School Network and is a seasoned leader with a rich background in academia and organizational strategy. Formerly an executive VP at AACSB International, overseeing 1,600 business schools in over 100 countries, Dan served in key roles such as chief strategy and innovation Officer, chief operating officer, and chief knowledge officer. A Ph.D. holder from the University of Florida, Dan continues to drive innovation in management education.

Dan Preston is a clinical associate professor at the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University. Dan’s area of expertise is international development finance, and he maintains ongoing high-level advisory relationships with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, World Economic Forum, Center for Global Development, and African Center for Economic Transformation.

Dan is a deputy director in the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Financial Services for the Poor initiative where he works to increase the poor’s access to digital payment systems. Dan is currently based in Seattle where he manages the FSP team’s Research & Emerging Technologies portfolio. He is a graduate from the Harvard Kennedy School’s Master in Public Administration in International Development program. Dan has worked on financial inclusion with the Centre for Micro Finance in Chennai, India and the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor in Washington D.C. Prior to his work in financial inclusion, Dan was as a venture capital analyst in the Silicon Valley.

Daniel F. Runde is director of the Project on Prosperity and Development and holds the William A. Schreyer Chair in Global Analysis at CSIS. His work centers on leveraging American soft power instruments and the central roles of the private sector and good governance in creating a more free and prosperous world. Previously, he led the Foundations Unit for the Department of Partnerships & Advisory Service Operations at the International Finance Corporation. His work facilitated and supported over $20 million in new funding through partnerships with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Kauffman Foundation, and Visa International, among other global private and corporate foundations.

Dan Bui is a Berlin-based digital healthcare policy researcher. He is currently studying for his bachelor’s degree in Modern Languages at the University of Cambridge, with research interests in digital health financing and public participation in sub-Saharan Africa.