Irene Khan
Irene Khan is the UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression since 1 August 2020. She is the first woman to hold this position since the establishment of the mandate in 1993. An internationally recognized advocate for human rights, gender equality and social justice, she […]
John Farner
John brings more than 20 years of experience as a leader in the irrigation and sustainability industry. Throughout his career, he has been at the forefront of promoting efficient irrigation as a solution to global environmental challenges. John also serves as a recognized international water management expert and led the U.S. irrigation industry’s response to […]
Patrick Diamond
Patrick Diamond (he/him) leads several innovation challenges at MIT Solve. He designs and implements strategies to democratize resources for social entrepreneurs: people developing solutions to social, cultural, and environmental challenges. Patrick advises foundation and business leaders on adopting new investment strategies, especially by means of open innovation and design thinking methods. Patrick currently leads several […]
Shameel Joosub
Shameel joined Vodacom in 1994 and currently serves as Chief Executive Officer at Vodacom Group Ltd, a position he has held since 2012. He has extensive telco experience having operated at a senior level in various companies across the group for the last 22 years, including Managing Director at Vodacom South Africa and Chief Executive […]
Noah Shachtman
Noah Shachtman is the Editor-in-Chief of Rolling Stone. From 2018 to 2021, he served as the Editor-in-Chief of The Daily Beast. A former non-resident fellow at the Brookings Institution, he also worked as Executive Editor for News at Foreign Policy and as a contributing editor at Wired, where he founded the Danger Room blog, which […]
Luis Arias
Things have turned out very different than I expected. I was kicked out of school for being a “misfit”. I finally graduated from high school and studied political science. I worked on various projects and unexpectedly ended being a teacher at a public school in a marginalized area of Bogota. I also ended up getting […]
Rosita Najmi
Rosita Najmi has been a global social and economic development specialist since 2001. At PayPal, Rosita serves as the Global Head of Social Innovation and leads a team that engages PayPal customers, employees, products, and business operations to advance social, economic, and environmental impact. Her portfolio seeks to democratize financial services, improve the financial […]
Joseph Sackor
Mr. Joseph Sackor is the Refugee Congress Honorary Delegate for Pennsylvania and a Senior Systems Analyst at Temple University Hospital. Only two months away from graduating college when war broke out in Liberia, Mr. Sackor and his family were forced to flee to Guinea, before resettling in the U.S. in 1999. During his time in […]
Dr. Raj Panjabi
Dr. Raj Panjabi was appointed by President Joe Biden to lead the U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative in February 2021. Born in Liberia, Dr. Panjabi settled in the United States after fleeing civil war at age nine. Before joining PMI, Dr. Panjabi served as CEO of Last Mile Health, an award-winning nonprofit he founded in 2007. […]
Angel Ortiz Ricard
Angel Ortiz-Ricard, JD is currently deployed to work in the CDC National Response to Covid 19 as the Vaccine Equity Coordinator within the Vaccine Equity Team, Chief Health Equity Office. For the past 20 years, Mr. Ortiz-Ricard has worked for the Division of HIV Prevention, National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, TB Prevention, Centers […]
Blake Hounshell
