Dr. William Wu is CEO of Quantitative Engineering Design (QED.ai), a mission-driven firm working in global health and food security. He brings +15 years of experience with data systems and A.I. to help partners scale their operations. Example projects include land cover mapping in Africa and Asia, and surveillance of HIV/malaria/covid-19 through automated transcription of handwritten medical registers (ScanForm). Dr. Wu previously worked as a telecommunications engineer at NASA JPL, and has been featured in The Gates Notes. He earned his B.S. in Computer Science from UC Berkeley, and M.S.

Formerly a lead negotiator for Australia at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, including for the Paris Agreement negotiations, Purdie is an experienced policy advisor at the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. She has expertise in climate change and development finance and is currently working on blended finance initiatives, including co-managing the Australian Government’s Emerging Markets Impact Investment Fund (EMIIF).

Mr. Aryal is a Country Programme Officer in Nepal since 2007. Prior to this position, Mr. Aryal entered into the development field as a Banker, for about a decade, in managing agricultural credit in a national development bank. Afterwards, Mr. Aryal  worked with a number of UN and other development agencies (such as GiZ, Unicef, FINNIDA) active in Nepal for about a decade. Before joining to the development field in 1987, Mr. Aryal worked as a school teacher for about a decade in remote rural Nepal. Mr. Aryal holds a Master’s Degree specialized in Development Administration.