Dr Anoja Wickramasinghe is an Emeritus Professor of Geography, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. She has significantly contributed to the field of energy, forestry, resource management, rural development, poverty, and also as a policy and institutional analyst, gender activist, community mobiliser and trainer. She has served as a consultant to several international and national agencies including the UNDP, FAO, IFAD, World Bank, and Millennium Challenge Cooperation as the national expert on Gender and Social inclusion in Lands and Transport Sector in Sri Lanka.

Experienced Director Of Development with a demonstrated history of working in the oil & energy industry. Skilled in Microsoft Excel, Customer Service, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Office, and Management. Strong community and social services professional with a Bachelor’s Degree focused in Science from University of Peradeniya.

Ms. Shah leads urban planning, gender and transport strategy, research, projects and policy at ITDP India. She has 13+ years' experience across multiple scales on city development, neighborhood plans, transit-oriented development and station accessibility planning, street design, historic precinct conservation, urban redevelopment, housing policy research, and gender aspects of these thematic areas.

Mary Alice Rosero is the Social Development Specialist (Gender and Development) of the Central and West Asia Department (CWRD).  Before becoming a staff, Alice was the Gender and Social Development consultant tasked with mainstreaming gender in ADB-funded projects in Armenia, the Kyrgyz Republic, Pakistan, and Tajikistan, as well as in the developing member countries of the South Asia Department.

Hon. Fiame Naomi Mata’afa is a Samoan High Chief and a senior member of the Cabinet in the Samoan Government. Elected into Parliament for the first time in 1985 for the constituency of Lotofaga, she is one of the longest-standing Members of Parliament.

Helen Clark was Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme from April 2009 to April 2017, and was the first woman to lead the organization. She served at the same time as Chair of the United Nations Development Group, a committee consisting of all UN funds, programs, agencies, and departments working on development issues. As Administrator, she led UNDP to be ranked the most transparent global development organization.

M. V. Lee Badgett's new book is "The Economic Case for LGBT Equality: Why Fairness and Equality Benefit Us All" from Beacon Press. Her research focuses on economic inequality for LGBT people, including wage gaps, employment discrimination, and poverty, and on the global cost of homophobia and transphobia. Her books on LGBT economic issues have debunked the myth of gay affluence and have shown that same-sex marriage is good for society.

Cher Ping Lim is a Chair Professor of Learning Technologies and Innovation, and the Co-Director of the Global Institute for Emerging Technologies at The Education University of Hong Kong. He is also a Visiting Professor at the UNESCO International Centre for Higher Education Innovations.

Dr. Attiya Inayatullah holds a Ph.D. in Demographics and has had a life-long association with the Family Planning Association of Pakistan.

Former Chairperson of the Executive Board of UNESCO, she has acquired international recognition in the fields of international relations, human rights, gender equality and social development at both the global level and in Pakistan. As a member of the first International Bioethics Committee of UNESCO, she contributed to the Universal Declaration on Human Genome and Human Rights.