Dr. Muhammad Ali Pate
Muhammad Ali Pate is the Global Director, Health, Nutrition and Population (HNP) Global Practice of the World Bank and the Director of Global Financing Facility for Women, Children and Adolescents (GFF), based in Washington DC. Dr. Pate was until recently the Chief Executive Officer of Big Win Philanthropy, based in the UK, and prior to […]
Lourena Gboeah
Lourena Gboeah is Chair of the Refugee Congress Board of Director and an Honorary Delegate. She came to the U.S. as a resettled refugee in 1992, when she was only four years old. Her family fled war in Liberia and the continuous harassment from government soldiers and rebels. Lourena has 18 years of experience working […]
Naina Subberwal Batra
Naina joined AVPN as our CEO from September 2013, and was appointed Chairperson in May 2018. Naina’s leadership over the past 7 years has nurtured the AVPN community, growing the membership base by more than 4x and elevating the organization into a truly regional force for good. Under her direction, the organization has grown from […]
Bruce Rasmussen
Professor Rasmussen is Director of the Victoria Institute of Strategic Economic Studies at Victoria University, Melbourne and Co Chair (Academic) APEC Life Sciences Innovation Forum. His most recent work is on health and productivity and the economic returns to investment in health for the US Chamber of Commerce. He is also conducting research for UNICEF […]
Patrick Emery
As Vice President of Asia & Ethiopia at SightLife, Patrick Emery is responsible for leading SightLife’s regional health system development strategy, ensuring programmatic collaboration across geographies, developing productive public and private partnerships and delivering sustainable results to ensure achievement of the SightLife mission of eliminating corneal blindness worldwide by 2040. Patrick’s global health experience spans […]
Maria Santos-Valentin Esq.
As The Rockefeller Foundation’s General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, Maria Santos Valentin oversees and advises the Foundation on a broad range of legal matters. Prior to joining the Foundation, Santos Valentin worked at the Soros Economic Development Fund – part of the Open Society Foundations – since its inception in 1998, most recently serving as […]
Abraham Leno
Abraham has spent his whole career promoting health, dignity and joy in the world’s most difficult places — starting in Guinea, where he and his family were refugees themselves. As a humanitarian Leader, Abraham has led humanitarian efforts in Liberia, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Balochistan in Pakistan, and now the Democratic Republic of the Congo. As […]
The Honorable David Sanders
David Sanders, Director of Innovate Arkansas at Winrock International. Innovate Arkansas is a catalyst, connector, and convener of entrepreneurs and industry leaders to help the Arkansas economy grow smarter and faster through innovation, acceleration, and deep incubation. Sanders and his 10-person team of business and industry advisors deliver high-impact, demand-based services, and programs targeting scalable, […]
Mark Isakowitz
Vyjayanti Desai
Vyjayanti Desai leads the World Bank Group’s Identification for Development (ID4D) and Digitizing Government to Person Payments (G2Px) initiative, two global, multi-sectoral initiatives. These initiatives support progress towards trusted and inclusive identification systems and digitization of G2P programs with broader goals of financial and social inclusion, women’s empowerment and greater individual agency. These initiatives support […]
Ashok Vaswani
Ashok Vaswani is the Chief Executive Officer of Consumer Banking and Payments overseeing the execution of plans for the Group’s consumer banking, private banking and payments businesses across Asia, UK, Europe and the US. Prior to this Ashok was the CEO for Barclays Bank UK, covering Retail Banking, Wealth, Business Banking and Barclaycard UK. […]