Leslie Dodson

Reporter & Videographer Covering International Finance, Economics, and Politics

Viola Llewellyn

Co-Founder & President of Ovamba Solutions; Leader in FinTech and Advocate for Diversity & Equality

Dixon Chibanda

Psychiatrist & Director of the African Mental Health Initiative; Founder & CEO of Friendship Bench Zimbabwe

Thomas Pogge

Philosopher Thomas Pogge wants to ensure medications get to those who need it most. He has published on a wide range of subjects such as global justice and human rights.

William Easterly

Professor of Economics at New York University; Co-Director, Development Research Institute

Sangu Delle

Entrepreneur, Author, Clean Water Activist, Soros Fellow & TEDGlobal Fellow

Dr. Jim Yong Kim

Former President of the World Bank, Korean-American Physician & Anthropologist

Anushka Naiknaware

Inventor, Scientist & TED Speaker; Youngest Winner of the Google Science Fair

David Closs

John H. McConnell Chaired Professor of Business Administration in the Department of Supply Chain Management at Michigan State University; Co-author of "Second Shift"

Clive Lee

Founder of the Phoenix Foundation Advocating Resilience

Brittany Merrill Underwood

Founder & CEO of Akola Project

Avery Bang

President & CEO of Bridges to Prosperity

John Cary

Co-Founder & Partner of FRESH Speakers; Co-Host of TEDCity2.0; Advisor at Aspen Global Health and Development, The Aspen Institute

Leanne Caret

President and CEO of Defense, Space & Security; Executive Vice President of The Boeing Company

Yinuo Li

Co-Founder of the ETU School

Marc Mathieu

SVP of Strategic Customer Transformation & Innovation at Salesforce, Former CMO at Samsung Electronics

Ken Banks

Founder of kiwanja.net

Charles Robertson

Global Chief Economist, Head of Macro-strategy Renaissance Capital; Author, lead author of The Fastest Billion: The Story Behind Africa’s Economic Revolution

Sharath Jeevan

Founder & CEO of STiR Education

Ravi Ramamurti

CBA Distinguished Professor of International Business and Director of the Center for Emerging Markets at Northeastern University

Chelsea Follett

Managing Editor of HumanProgress.org

Stephanie Busari

Supervising Producer at CNN; Founder of TEDxBrixton

Lucie Greene

Worldwide Director of the Innovation Group at J. Walter Thompson

Susan M. Collins

Provost & Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs at the University of Michigan; President and CEO of the Boston Federal Reserve Bank

Tolu Olubunmi

Founder & CEO of Lions Write

Shameem Akhtar

Education Activist

Roxanne Joyal

CEO of Me to We and a founding member of Free The Children

Stephen C. Smith

Global Economist

Sherrie Westin

President at Sesame Workshop

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Priya Vulchi

Co-Founder of CHOOSE