Congressman Zach Wamp

Zach Wamp currently serves as the Co-Chair to Issue One’s ReFormers Caucus. Prior to joining the Caucus, the Chattanooga native and ardent conservative served in Congress, representing the 3rd Congressional District of the great state of Tennessee. Wamp served in the House for more than 15 years and was a senior member on the House […]

Sanda Ojiambo

Sanda Ojiambo of Kenya was appointed CEO & Executive Director of the United Nations Global Compact by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in June 2020.   As the world grappled with the COVID-19 pandemic, Ms. Ojiambo launched an ambitious new UN Global Compact strategy to accelerate and scale the global collective impact of business by upholding […]

Sarah Lenti

Sarah Lenti is the CEO of SAM, the Serve America Movement. In addition, and through her political consulting firm, SML Advisory Partners, Sarah works as a policy consultant and political advisor to elected officials, up-and-coming candidates, Fortune 500 executives and non-profit organizations. Armed with a graduate degree in Russian & East European Studies from Stanford […]

Magdi Amin

Magdi is an Investment Partner with Omidyar Network in Washington, DC, where he focuses on global strategy and for-profit investments in Digital Identity. ON’s vision is for a world in which everyone has access to Good ID that empowers and protects individuals’ rights to privacy, security, and control in the digital world. Before joining Omidyar […]

John Giusti

As Chief Regulatory Officer for the GSMA, John Giusti is responsible for leading the organization’s public policy and industry advocacy agenda with governments, regulators and international institutions worldwide. He also oversees the GSMA Foundation, a 501(c)(3) organization, that brings together mobile operators, donors and the international development community to harness the power of mobile to […]

Heidi Pease

As a leader in the Los Angeles blockchain community, Heidi cofounded the Los Angeles Blockchain Lab — a collaboration of academia, government, enterprise, and community focused on developing the blockchain ecosystem in Southern California and abroad. Founding partners include City of Los Angeles, University of California Los Angeles, University of California Irvine, University of Southern […]

Evan McMullin

Evan started his career with the Central Intelligence Agency in 1999. He spent much of his service overseas as a clandestine operations officer running counter-terrorism and traditional intelligence operations. After over a decade with the Agency, Evan joined Goldman Sachs’s Investment Banking Division in San Francisco where he worked on a variety of strategic and […]

Sandiso Sibisi

Sandiso leads Accenture’s Open Innovation for Africa a division that bridges the gap between innovative products developed by start-ups to fulfil the needs of Accenture’s corporate clients, forming corporate-start-up partnerships to solve business problems and in parallel accelerating entrepreneurial growth on the continent. Her passion for development led her to establish, the Born to Succeed […]

Seemi Choudry

Born and raised in Venezuela, Seemi is the child of Pakistani immigrants who moved her family of six to Chicago in the late 1990s. In 2010, she graduated from Loyola University Chicago with a B.A. in political science and Spanish. Since then, she has worked in community development, program management, conflict mediation, and financial technology. […]

Dr. Linda Lopez

Dr. Lopez has more than 15 years of experience in federal and local government, academia, non-profit and media relations. She is currently the Chief of the Office of Immigrant Affairs for Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and also advises the Mayor on immigration and refugee policy for his administration. Dr. Lopez was formerly an Associate […]