Main Stage Speakers

Amb. Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley
Chief Diversity Officer, U.S. Department of State
Roslyn M. Brock
Chief Global Equity Officer, Abt Associates 
Rep. Joaquin Castro
(D-TX) U.S. Congressman ​
 Mark Feierstein
​Principal Advisor to the Administrator,  USAID
John Glover
Vice President for Program Affairs,
Senior Vice President of Programs and Policy
Plan International USA
Bobby Jefferson
​Vice President, Chief Technology Officer, Global Health, DAI
Mark Johnson
COO, International Development Services
Tetra Tech
Jay Knott
Executive Vice President & Chief Administrative Officer, Environmental Defense Fund
​Jeremy Konyndyk
Executive Director, COVID-19 Task Force (USAID)
Raj Kumar
​Founder, President & Editor-In-Chief of Devex 
​Alexia Latortue
Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Millennium Challenge Corporation
David Marchick
Chief Operating Officer, U.S. Development Finance Corporation
Jonathan Pershing
Senior Advisor to the U.S. Special Presidential Envoy on Climate, U.S. Department of State
Paul Polman
Retired CEO, Unilever, CEO
and ​Co-Founder, IMAGINE​
​Anil Soni
CEO, WHO Foundation
Anne F. Simmons-Benton
Principal, Deep Water Point
Michele Sumilas
Assistant to the Administrator of the Bureau for Policy, Planning, and Learning (PPL), USAID
Amb. ​Harry K. Thomas Jr.
​Senior Fellow,
Yale University’s Jackson Institute for Global Affairs
Wade Warren
Board Chair, SID-Washington, Chief Strategy Officer for International Development, Deloitte Consulting 

Breakout Speakers

​
​Jonathan Addleton 
President, Forman Christian College
Lola Adekanye
Senior Program Officer, Africa Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE)
​Indira Kaur Ahluwalia
Senior Advisor, Palladium
Krista Baptista
Senior Director, Center for Digital Acceleration, DAI
​John Beed
Chief Partnership Officer, LifeRamp
Jeannelle Blanchard
Vice President, Tetra Tech
Alexis Bonnell
Senior Business Executive, Google
Olya Catto
Vice President, Project Operations and Volunteer Programs, ACDI/VOCA
Jesse Eaves
Senior Director of Peacebuilding, Humanity United
​Lee Gutkind
Author & Editor
Roman Hrab
CEO, Vkursi Agro
Darlene Irby​
CEO, Aspire Power Solutions 
 Chilande Kuloba‐Warria 
Founder and Managing Director at Warande Advisory Centre
Steve Knapp
Director of Business Link Pacific, DT Global
Elizabeth Maguire
Global Advisor on Women’s Reproductive Health, Rights, and Leadership
Todd Malone
Managing Director, BroadReach Health Development
Anastasia Thatcher Marceau
Managing Director, Accenture
Matthew Meredith
Founding Partner, LixCap LLC
Benjamin Morse
Creator & Host, Techawat with Benjamin Morse, Podcast
Jane Nelson
Director of the Corporate Responsibility Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School​
Paul O'Brien
Executive Director, Amnesty International USA (AIUSA)
Kathleen O'Dell
Principal and Lead Consulting Partner for International Development, Deloitte Consulting
Eric Reading
Division Vice President,
International Development,
Abt Associates
Susan Reichle
President and CEO, International Youth Foundation
Tanmay Guha Roy
Manager, New Media, Abt Associates India
​Steve Schmida
Founder and Chief Innovation Officer, Resonance
Audrey Spencer
Education and Youth Practice Director, Chemonics
Roy Stacy
Author
​Anne Stake
Head of Strategy, Innovation and Technology, Medtronic Labs
​Constance Elizabeth Swaniker
Founder & CEO,
​Accents & Art Ltd.
Arjun Tasker
New Partnerships Initiative Portfolio Manager, USAID
Ami Thakkar
Sr. Director/Division Lead for Governance And Youth Economic Opportunities, RTI International
​Rotimi Thomas
CEO & Co-Founder,  Aspire Power Solutions
​Halla Tómasdóttir
CEO, The B Team
Courtenay Cabot Venton
International Development Economist and Founder & Executive Director of The Share Trust​
Carmen Villar
Vice President, Social Business Innovation in the Policy, Communications and Population Health (PCPH) organization at Merck
Wayan Vota
Director of Digital Health, IntraHealth International
Jon Walton
Senior Consultant,
​Reos Partners
R. Drake Warrick
Senior Project Director, Education in Conflict Division, Creative Associates