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

Yuri Oganessian

Russian nuclear physicist of Armenian descent. He and his team discovered the heaviest elements in the periodic table

Stephen C. Smith

Global Economist

Sherrie Westin

President at Sesame Workshop

Sherrie Westin - Devex World 2022

Priya Vulchi

Co-Founder of CHOOSE

Laurel West

Managing director, content solutions, Asia, The Economist Group

Peggy Clark

Former President & CEO at International Center for Research on Women (ICRW)

Peggy Clark - Women's Forum for the Economy & Society

Graça Machel

African Stateswoman Known for Her Advocacy for Women & Children; UN Sustainable Development Goals Advocate

Kristalina Georgieva

Managing Director at IMF; Former CEO of the World Bank

Nina Fedoroff

Molecular Biologist; Biotechnology Expert & Professor of Biology at Penn State

Jacquelline Fuller

Director of Google.org, Supporting Education, Development, Disaster Relief and Clean Energy Through Charitable Giving

Weijian Shan

Chairman & CEO of PAG, One of Asia's Leading Investment Firms

Sarah Borgman

Director and Curatorof Skoll Community and Convenings

Jonathan Woetzel

MGI Director and Senior Partner, Shanghai

Tiffany Kagure Mugo

Co-Founder & Curator of HOLAAfrica

Zak Dychtwald

Founding CEO of Young China Global Group & Author of "Young China: How the Restless Generation is Changing Their Country and the World"

Azim Khamisa

Chairman, CEO & Founder of the Tariq Khamisa Foundation; Author, Best Known for "The Secrets of the Bulletproof Spirit: How to Bounce Back from Life's Hardest Hits"

Elmira Bayrasli

Co-founder of Foreign Policy Interrupted

Lauren McGoodwin

Founder & CEO, Career Contessa, Best-Selling Author of "Power Moves", Women's Career Development Speaker

Alanna Shaikh

Global Health & International Development Writer, TED Fellow, Alzheimer's Disease Advocate

Honourable Ms. Hanna Tetteh

Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Office to the African Union; Former Minister of Foreign Affairs & Regional Integration, Republic of Ghana