Priscilla Brice is the founder and Managing Director of All Together Now, Australia’s only national racism prevention charity. She has a decade of experience managing social marketing and social change projects, specializing in online communications. Prior to working in the not-for-profit sector, Priscilla worked as an equities research assistant in the investment banking sector. Priscilla is a recipient of the Churchill Fellowship and the University of Western Sydney Community Award for establi...
Feb 23, 2015•34 min
Seth Selleck is the Youth Coordinator of the Municipality of Simrishamn in Sweden. He has led the development of various projects focused on intercultural understanding, including an international youth magazine, Cultural Horizons, which was published in the 1990’s. After hearing the Nigerian author, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, lecture about “The Danger of a Single Story” he searched for a way to better encourage intercultural communication. Knowing young people are natural solution finders, he wo...
Feb 16, 2015•27 min
Rakesh Nair is an anti-human trafficking crusader and General Secretary of Manav Seva Sansthan (Seva) – an organization that works in the Indo-Nepal border corridor (an area notorious for human trafficking). Over the past 13 years, Rakesh has been instrumental in creating the nationally and internationally acknowledged cross border transit model called the ‘Life Guard Centre,’ – a unique integrated model of partnership between Seva and the Border Army to eliminate human trafficking. The LGC has ...
Feb 04, 2015•34 min
Tom Walker is the President and CEO of LionsGate Technologies, a company that designs and produces life-saving mobile medical technology. Tom has over 25 years of global medical device industry leadership. He has held senior management positions with Physio-Control, Eli Lilly, Cardinal Health, and AGFA HealthCare. These positions focused on North American and international business and corporate development. He also has extensive early-stage venture experience: he has led start-up initiatives, c...
Feb 02, 2015•47 min
Adam Anthony is a Program Officer at ForumCC, or the Tanzanian Civil Society Forum on Climate Change, which is an association of civil society organizations committed to working on climate change through individual and collective program initiatives. Previously, Adam worked with YUNA, a youth-based United Nations awareness organization, Norwegian Church Aid, and Africa Unite, a South-African based NGO working on human rights. Adam is the 2011 Anzisha Prize semi-finalist, winner of the JGI Global...
Jan 26, 2015•31 min
ElsaMarie D’Silva is the Managing Director of Safecity.in – a website that uses crowdsourcing to identify locations where women have experienced or witnessed any type of sexual harassment. ElsaMarie is an experienced aviation professional. In 2003, she made a career switch in order to improve the lives of women, youth and senior citizens through awareness, interaction and education. She is also trained in both directive and non directive counseling. She is a Vital Voices Lead Fellow and an alumn...
Jan 19, 2015•27 min
Carne Ross is the founder and Executive Director of Independent Diplomat. Carne served as a British diplomat from 1989-2004 in a number of different roles, including speechwriter to the Foreign Secretary. From 1998, he was the UK’s Middle East expert at the United Nations in New York. In 2004, he resigned from the UK Foreign Office after giving then-secret evidence to the first official inquiry into the Iraq war. Carne is also an author of two books, most recently “The Leaderless Revolution: how...
Jan 12, 2015•29 min
Dr. Huong Nguyen is the Co-founder and Vice President of Blind-Link, a social enterprise based in Vietnam that provides employment, support, and training opportunities for people with vision disabilities. Prior to Blind-Link, Huong was the Director of the Macroeconomics and Strategy Department of the Development Strategy Institute (DSI) - a national level think tank in Vietnam. Huong is currently a Rajawali Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School. She was also a Humphrey Fellow as a part of the Ful...
Jan 05, 2015•29 min
Dr. Craig Zelizer is the Founder/CEO of the Peace and Collaborative Development Network. Created in 2007, PCDN has rapidly become the leading online network connecting peacebuilders and change agents from around the globe. Craig is also is the Interim Director of the MA in Conflict Resolution within the Department of Government at Georgetown University. His most recent publication is an edited volume called Integrated Peacebuilding: Innovative Approaches to Transforming Conflict . Craig was also...
Dec 15, 2014•38 min
Linn Hammergren is an expert in rule of law, citizen security, anti-corruption policies, and general governance issues. She has a doctorate in Political Science and, before 2008, taught Political Science at Vanderbilt University. She then spent ten years with the World Bank and twelve as an internal consultant for USAID managing Administration of Justice projects. Linn’s research and publications focus on judicial politics and reform, judicial corruption, citizen security, and the politics of fo...
Dec 08, 2014•36 min
Tamar Koosed is the founder and director of Manaus consulting, where her work focuses on impact assessments and corporate social responsibility. She has provided her expertise to organizations such as Plan International, Underwriters Laboratories, the Microsoft Foundation and the Levi Strauss Foundation in places like Vietnam, Nepal, El Salvador, Colombia, Haiti, Brazil and India. She is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Shapers Community and has published reports and articles with B...
Dec 01, 2014•35 min
Professor Mike Clarke is a founder of Evidence Aid and the Director of the Hub for Trials Methodology Research at Queen’s University Belfast in Northern Ireland. For 25 years, Mike has focused his work on rigorous evaluations of the effects of a wide variety of health and social care interventions. He is passionate about improving access to reliable evidence for all decision makers, particularly in resource poor settings....
Nov 24, 2014•28 min
Serena Olgiati is an expert in human security and armed violence. Her work focuses on measuring and monitoring armed violence, in an effort to advance policy and advocacy efforts that promote evidence-based responses to same. Now an independent professional, most recently she led policy development for the UK based Action on Armed Violence , as their Head of Advocacy. Serena previously worked for the International Campaign to Ban Landmines , representing this organisation in Colombia and for the...
Nov 17, 2014•32 min
Dr. Joel Selanikio is an award-winning physician, innovator and public speaker who leads the efforts of Magpi to develop and promote new technologies and business models for health and international development. This includes the award-winning Magpi mobile data collection and messaging software – the most widely scaled mobile technology ever created for international development, with more than 32,000 users in more than 170 countries. Joel is a frequent keynote speaker and consultant in the fiel...
Nov 10, 2014•51 min
Belabbes Benkredda is an award-winning social innovator, open debate advocate and the founder of the Munathara Initiative , a fledging online and television debate forum for Arab youth. In 2013, he received the Democracy Award from the National Democratic Institute in Washington, DC for his work in fostering citizen participation in the Arab public sphere. Prior to the Initiative, Belabbes worked with the German Foreign Office , the League of Arab States and the Council for Arab-British Understa...
Nov 03, 2014•32 min
Saji Prelis is the Director for Children & Youth Programmes at Search for Common Ground . Saji co-leads several policy-level platforms including the UN-Civil Society Inter-Agency Working Group on Youth Participation in Peacebuilding and the Global Partnership to enable children and youth participation in peacebuilding. Through the UN-CSO Inter-Agency working group, he has co-led the process in developing Guiding Principles for Young People’s Participation in Peacebuilding that was officially...
Oct 27, 2014•45 min
Oct 20, 2014•39 min
Raj Rana is the Director of the WolfGroup Consultants . With 16 years of international experience in the aid and development sector, his focus is on supporting organizations and teams to pursue meaningful change through clarity of purpose. Raj completed his professional and graduate studies in architecture in Canada and started his international career as a Canadian Peacekeeper in Bosnia-Herzegovina 1993. His international experience was shaped through 8 years with the International Committee of...
Oct 13, 2014•26 min
Annika Kjellgren is the Chief Executive Officer & Founder of Impact Consulting. Prior to founding Impact Consulting, Annika worked for UNDP in Moldova and for the World Bank in Rwanda, Sudan, Bhutan, and Tanzania. Annika also worked in the United States for PricewaterhouseCoopers Securities’ mergers and acquisitions team and Riggs Capital Partners’ venture capital team....
Sep 26, 2014•55 min
Jen Haile is the Senior Manager of Corporate Partnerships & Philanthropy at Population Services International. She manages a new philanthropic initiative aimed at catalyzing the next wave of social investors interested in improving the health and rights of girls and women worldwide. Prior to joining PSI, Jen spent almost ten years in philanthropy at National Public Radio. She has been committed to international development since college, working in youth camps in Ukraine, volunteering with t...
Sep 01, 2014•33 min
Fsahat U.l. Hassan is the founder and current Chairperson of the Youth Advocacy Network, a national level youth-led democratic and volunteer-driven organization in Pakistan with more than 1,500 members across the country. Fsahat recently received the prestigious Youth Excellence Award from the President of Islamic Republic of Pakistan for his work with young people. He also chaired the first youth-led regional level conference for youth in 2014 and represented Pakistan and the region in multiple...
Aug 23, 2014•32 min
Blair Glencorse is the Founder and Executive Director of the Accountability Lab , an organization that empowers citizens to fight corruption and build accountability around the world. He is also a Social Impact Fellow at the Center for High Impact Philanthropy at the University of Pennsylvania. Previously, Blair worked for the World Bank on issues of governance and development. In 2014 he was selected as an Echoing Green Fellow and a Stanford Business School Social Entrepreneurship Scholar ....
Aug 17, 2014•38 min
Bibhusan Bista is the CEO and co-founder of YoungInnovations, a software development firm based in Nepal. With a background in technology, research and international development, he has led successful projects around open data, transparency, accountability and other development issues in collaboration with local and international partners. Bibhusan is an active member of the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) technical advisory group and has been part of similar initiatives such as...
Aug 14, 2014•33 min
Ziad Moussa is an independent development professional specializing in local governance and evaluation who over the past 18 years has worked across the entire Middle East and North Africa, the Mediterranean countries involved in the Euro-Med process and significant parts of the African continent. Ziad’s track record in local governance and decentralization includes leadership roles in key regional initiatives and the Resource Centers on Urban Agriculture and Food Security. His work in evaluation...
Aug 14, 2014•43 min
Janna Greve is a human rights specialist working as a Regional Office Coordinator for MAPP-OEA in Colombia. Previously, she worked with Medecins Sans Frontieres in North Kivu of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Janna has also worked in development cooperation, advisory, research, writing and editing roles in Brazil, India and Germany, with NGOs and other international organizations. Janna studied Political Science, International Relations, Cultural Anthropology, Jurispudence and Internation...
Aug 08, 2014•37 min
Mohit Mukherjee is an educator-entrepreneur who in 2006 founded the Centre for Executive Education at the United Nations Mandated University for Peace (UPEACE). As Director of the Centre for Executive Education, he has developed and taught over 40 seminars in seven countries on themes ranging from ‘Educating in Changing Times' to ’Social Entrepreneurship’. He is also the founder of ‘Changemakers International’, which focuses on youth and social innovation. Prior to founding the Centre, Mohit ser...
Aug 08, 2014•43 min
Jodi Nelson is the director of Strategy, Measurement & Evaluation at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Committed to helping the foundation maximize its results, the Strategy, Measurement & Evaluation (SME) team is responsible for the organization’s strategy development and review process and its overall approach to measurement and evaluation. SME leads efforts to integrate results-based planning into the foundation’s grant making and operations; develop a strong, organization-wide...
Aug 06, 2014•36 min
A former professional dancer, Stefanie Eppe is an experienced senior nonprofit leader and educator. With a strong track record in nonprofit leadership and strategy, Stefanie holds a Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Southern California, and has served as a senior staff member for the National Youth Employment Coalition in Washington, D.C. and at Para Los Niños in Los Angeles, California, leading programming, strategic planning, evaluation, and quality assurance efforts. She is a member ...
Aug 03, 2014•53 min
Nichole Graber-Simmons is Director of the Office of Citizen Security for USAID in Kingston, Jamaica. The Office of Citizen Security is part of USAID’s Office of Transition Initiatives (OTI), which in turn is part of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance (DCHA). The OTI was established in 1994 to provide fast, flexible, short-term assistance to take advantage of windows of opportunity to build democracy and peace...
Jul 27, 2014•45 min
Sandra Sudhoff is Technical Manager at CartONG, a French NGO that enables emergency relief and development organizations and local governments to manage their own existing data, integrate other data sources and then use that data to plan programs and monitor progress and impact. Sandra has worked for CartONG for nearly eight years, facilitating mobile data collection with Android phones; implementing remote and thematic mapping projects; developing e-learning and screencast capabilities for GIS ...
Jul 01, 2014•38 min
