Henri Dommel

Henri Dommel joined UNCDF as the Director of the Inclusive Finance Practice Area in 2007. He is responsible for leading the Unit’s strategy in promoting financial inclusion and the development of inclusive digital economies. Prior to joining UNCDF as Director, Mr. Dommel spent 6 years (2001-2007) at Rural Finance, IFAD (International Fund for Agricultural Development) […]
Brigitte Hoyer Gosselink

Brigitte Gosselink is Head of Product Impact at Google.org, where she leads initiatives that leverage emerging technologies and Google’s expertise to address global challenges. She is currently focused on how AI can be used for social impact through efforts like the $25M Google AI Impact Challenge. She previously led programs focused on how technology can […]
Bernhard Kowatsch

Bernhard Kowatsch the Head of the Innovation Accelerator at the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). which he started in 2015. The WFP Innovation Accelerator was named by Fast Company as Best Workplace for Innovators and Innovative Team of the Year 2020 for its work in identifying, nurturing and scaling disruptive startups and innovations to […]
Hagar Hajjar Chemali

Hagar Hajjar Chemali is a news personality, political satirist, and creator, host, and writer of Oh My World on YouTube. She is a foreign policy expert and is featured regularly as a national security analyst on MSNBC, CNN, BBC, Bloomberg, and News Nation. Hagar is also CEO of Greenwich Media Strategies, which provides strategic communications […]
Minister Sibusiso Moyo
Amb. Arturo Sarukhan

Ambassador Arturo Sarukhan is an international strategic consultant and public speaker based in Washington, and the former Mexican Ambassador to the US (2007-13). A Non-Resident Senior Fellow at Brookings, a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at USC’s Annenberg Public Diplomacy School and a Senior Associate at Chatham House in London, he’s a digital diplomacy pioneer, using social […]
Darrell M. West

Darrell M. West is the Vice President and Senior Fellow of Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution. He holds the Douglas Dillon Chair in Governance Studies. Previously, he was the John Hazen White Professor of Political Science and Public Policy and Director of the Taubman Center for Public Policy at Brown University. His current research […]
Darrell West

Darrell M. West is the Vice President and Senior Fellow of Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution. He holds the Douglas Dillon Chair in Governance Studies. Previously, he was the John Hazen White Professor of Political Science and Public Policy and Director of the Taubman Center for Public Policy at Brown University. His current research […]
Bayan Sami Abdul Rahman

Bayan Sami Abdul Rahman is the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Representative to the United States of America. Key to her role are strengthening ties between Kurdistan and the United States, advocating her government’s position on a wide array of political, security, humanitarian, economic, and cultural matters and promoting coordination and partnership. Prior to her US […]
Akosua Agyepong
Noel Shaksan