Global Impact Forum: Featured Speakers

Kurt Campbell

Chairman and Co-Founder, The Asia Group

Dr. Kurt M. Campbell is the Chairman and Co-Founder of The Asia Group. Prior to re-joining TAG, Kurt most recently served as the 22nd Deputy Secretary of The United States Department of State, where he played a key role in strengthening America’s diplomatic standing and in modernizing the Department to meet enduring global challenges. Before assuming his role at the State Department, Kurt served as the inaugural Indo-Pacific Coordinator at the National Security Council and Deputy Assistant to the President at the White House from 2021 to 2024.

Kurt operates at the intersection of geopolitics and commerce and has devoted his career to advancing America’s interests in the Indo-Pacific. Kurt is a serial entrepreneur, having started numerous businesses, launched and led the leading national security think tank in Washington, DC, and spearheaded globally significant international initiatives. Kurt advises C-suite executives on how to navigate opportunities related to geopolitical developments and economic trends across Asia and the world. His career spans nearly four decades across the private sector, academia, military service, journalism, and government.

In the role as President Biden’s principal Indo-Pacific policy advisor, he advanced consequential foreign policy strategies across the Indo-Pacific region – from strengthening alliances and traditional partnerships throughout the region, developing economic statecraft strategies to help align U.S. business opportunities with U.S. foreign policy interests, managing the US-China relationship and building an enduring strategic foundation for the U.S.-India relationship. Kurt was also a driving force behind the trilateral security partnership between Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States (AUKUS), which strengthened defense cooperation, secured supply chains, and advanced cutting-edge technology partnerships and the key advancements in U.S., Japan, and Korea trilateral relations.

Prior to his most recent public service, Kurt was Chairman and Co-founder of The Asia Group. From 2009 to 2013, Kurt served as Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, where he is widely credited as the key architect of the “Pivot to Asia.” Kurt began his career as an officer in the U.S. Navy Reserves, serving on surface ships, at the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and in the Chief of Naval Operations Strategic Advisory Unit. He was also an Associate Professor of Public Policy and International Relations at Harvard’s John F Kennedy School of Government.

Kurt has been recognized for his service with the award of the Secretary of State’s Distinguished Service Award – the nation’s highest diplomatic honor. Campbell was recognized by Queen Elizabeth in her list of honors in 2014 as an Honorary Officer of the Order of Australia and as an Honorary Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for his support of American relations with Australia and New Zealand respectively. He has also received top national honors from a number of key Asian and European allies.

Kurt holds a B.A. from the University of California, San Diego, a Certificate in Music and Political Philosophy from the University of Erevan in Soviet Armenia, and a Doctorate in International Relations from Brasenose College at Oxford University, where he was a Distinguished Marshall Scholar. Kurt is the author or editor of ten books, including most recently The Pivot: The Future of American Statecraft in Asia. He is married to Dr. Lael Brainard, and together they have three daughters. They live in Washington, DC, and maintain Iron Bell Farm, a historic Civil War-era property in Rappahannock County, Virginia.

Elisabeth Carpenter

Chief Strategic Engagement Officer, Circle

After nine years serving as Circle’s COO, Elisabeth turned her attention to accelerating and giving permanence to our broader mission to raise global economic prosperity. Leading global strategic engagement, she forges relationships with critical commercial, non-profit, and non-governmental organizations to drive Circle’s mission through stablecoin network growth and adoption worldwide. She brings decades of experience leading companies revolutionizing industries ranging from financial services to nonprofit fundraising to media as COO of Evertrue, and SVP at Brightcove, News Corporation, and BSkyB.

Gina Chon

Executive Editor of News and Live Journalism, Semafor

Gina Chon is Executive Editor of News and Live Journalism at Semafor, where she edits business, tech, and CEO coverage, and also leads editorial programming for all of Semafor‘s events. Prior to joining Semafor, she was the DC columnist for Reuters Breakingviews, covering the economy and business issues, and also followed white collar crime for the Financial Times. She spent seven years at The Wall Street Journal, covering M&A, the Iraq war, and the auto industry. She also co-wrote a book based on interviews with the Khmer Rouge’s No. 2 leader.

Adanna Chukwuma

AVP, Economic Growth and Private Sector Engagement, CARE

Dr. Adanna Chukwuma is the Associate Vice President for Economic Growth and Private Sector Engagement at CARE, where she leads partnerships and financing approaches that support inclusive economic growth. She oversees CARE’s RISE initiative to strengthen financial systems for women and accelerate economic growth across emerging markets, and works with philanthropists, development finance institutions (DFIs), corporations, and foundations to deepen private sector engagement across CARE’s global portfolio.

Before joining CARE, Adanna served as Senior Director of Social Impact and Sustainability at Visa, where her work aligned Visa’s social impact work with its business and financial inclusion priorities and supported partnerships that expanded access to digital payments, skills, and capital for small businesses and consumers in emerging and developed markets. Earlier in her career, she was a Senior Economist at the World Bank Group. In this role, she managed debt- and grant-funded portfolios supporting the design and evaluation of social sector reforms across Africa, Asia, and Europe.

Adanna holds an MD from the University of Nigeria, an MSc from the University of Oxford, a doctorate from Harvard University, and an MBA in Finance from Imperial College London. Her work focuses on building systems that expand opportunity and resilience for people and markets.

Neha Dalal

Principal, Jasper Ridge Partners

Neha Dalal serves as Principal at Jasper Ridge Partners, where she partners with ultra-high net worth families on their philanthropy and other impact goals. She also co-teaches a course on strategic philanthropy & impact investing at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business (GSB). Previously, she worked in government, including serving three U.S. presidents at the White House Council of Economic Advisers and on a presidential transition team; philanthropy, including at the Gates Foundation; and impact investing, including co-leading the Stanford GSB Impact Fund. Neha earned a BA and MS in applied math with focuses in education and economics from Harvard and an MBA and Certificate in Public Management and Social Innovation from Stanford.

Reiza Dejito

Country Director, Philippines, CARE

Reiza S. Dejito is a humanitarian and development leader with more than 20 years of leadership experience across Asia and Africa. She serves as country director of CARE Philippines, where she leads a growing portfolio spanning humanitarian response, anticipatory action, climate resilience, health systems strengthening, peacebuilding, and women’s economic empowerment.

She began her career as a physical therapist, working directly with conflict-affected communities, and entered the humanitarian sector through hands-on management of health and rehabilitation programs in refugee and internally displaced persons (IDP) camps in South Sudan and Kenya. This formative field experience continues to shape her leadership—grounding strategy in dignity, accountability, and people-centered systems rather than theory.

Reiza has since held various senior operational and strategic roles. As Country Director and Regional Director with Humanity & Inclusion (formerly Handicap International), she lead complex, multi-country operations in some of the world’s most fragile, crisis-affected, and disaster-prone contexts (South Sudan, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Somalia, the Philippines, Indonesia, Timor-Leste, Nepal, India, Sri Lanka). Across these roles, she has overseen large, multi-donor portfolios, led organizational change, strengthened governance and risk management, and advanced integrated humanitarian and development approaches.

In her home country the Philippines, Reiza plays a leading role in humanitarian coordination and collective action. After serving as co-convenor for two years, she was recently elected Chairperson of the Philippine INGO Network (PINGON)—a national network of 45 international humanitarian NGOs. In this role, she sits on the Humanitarian Country Team, serves as the INGO representative to the National Civil-Military Coordination mechanism, and is the sole INGO representative to the Grand Bargain National Reference Group, where she advocates for equitable partnerships, localization, and more flexible, trust-based funding for local organizations.

Beyond operational leadership, Reiza regularly serves as a panelist and speaker on women’s leadership, localization, and humanitarian action, contributing grounded practitioner and leadership perspectives to national and international forums. She is known for her inclusive, values-driven leadership style, combining strategic foresight with operational discipline and ambition with care. Her work emphasizes compassion, resilience, and strong systems built through people and partnerships.

Michèle Flournoy

Co-Founder and Managing Partner, WestExec Advisors

Michèle Flournoy is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of WestExec Advisors, and former Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), where she currently serves on the board.

Michèle served as the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy from February 2009 to February 2012. She was the principal advisor to the Secretary of Defense in the formulation of national security and defense policy, oversight of military plans and operations, and National Security Council deliberations. She led the development of the Department of Defense’s 2012 Strategic Guidance and represented the Department in dozens of foreign engagements, in the media and before Congress. Prior to confirmation, Michèle co-led President Obama’s transition team at the Defense Department.

Michèle is the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including: the American Red Cross Exceptional Service Award in 2016; the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service in 1998, 2011, and 2012; the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff’s Joint Distinguished Civilian Service Award in 2000 and 2012; the Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service in 1996; and CARE’s Global Peace, Development and Security Award in 2019. She has edited several books and authored dozens of reports and articles on a broad range of defense and national security issues. Michèle appears frequently in national and international media, including CNN’s State of the Union, ABC’s This Week, NBC’s Meet the Press, BBC News, NPR’s Morning Edition and All Things Considered and PBS News Hour, and is frequently quoted in top tier newspapers.

Michèle serves on the boards of Booz Allen Hamilton, Amida Technology Solutions, The Mission Continues, Spirit of America, The U.S. Naval Academy Foundation, CARE, and sits on the Honorary Advisory Committee of The Leadership Council for Women in National Security. Michèle is also a former member of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board, the CIA Director’s External Advisory Board, and the Defense Policy Board, and is currently a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Aspen Strategy Group, and is a Senior Fellow at Harvard’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.

Michèle earned a bachelor’s degree in social studies from Harvard University and a master’s degree in international relations from Balliol College, Oxford University, where she was a Newton-Tatum scholar.

Kate Guy

Senior Fellow & Managing Director, Geopolitics of Climate Change and the Energy Transition, Columbia University, School of International & Public Affairs

Kate Guy is Senior Fellow and Managing Director of the Geopolitics of Climate Change and the Energy Transition at Center on Global Energy Policy, Columbia University SIPA.

Prior to this role, Kate was an appointee of the Biden-Harris Administration, directing the Department of State’s diplomatic efforts and interagency policy at the intersection of climate change, national security, and foreign policy. She served as a Senior Advisor to Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry and to the Assistant Secretary of the Bureau of Oceans, and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs. She formerly was a Senior Research Fellow with the Center for Climate and Security and Deputy Director of the International Military Council on Climate and Security, where she led global research and engagement on growing global threats posed by climate change.

Kate has worked in politics and international environmental policy with numerous institutions, including the U.S. Department of State, the White House Council on Environmental Quality, Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, the Truman National Security Project, Foreign Policy for America, and the International Institute for Sustainable Development. Her research has appeared in the BBC, Bloomberg News, International Affairs, The Conversation, Forbes, The Guardian, The National Interest, Oxford Magazine, Reuters, Scientific American, USA Today, and War on the Rocks.

Kate earned her B.A. in Political Science and M.A. in International Affairs from Columbia University, focusing on foreign policy and climate change. She is pursuing a doctorate in international relations with the University of Oxford, where she has served as a lecturer in International Relations at University College, at the Blavatnik School of Government, and with the Oxford School of Climate Change. She was born and raised in Minnesota.

Glenn Hutchins

Chairman of North Island and North Island Ventures and Co-Founder of Silver Lake

Glenn Hutchins is chairman of North Island and North Island Ventures, and co-founder of Silver Lake.

He is vice chairman and lead independent director of Santander; lead independent director of CoreWeave; and on the Investment Board and the International Advisory Board of GIC, the sovereign wealth fund of Singapore.

He is also co-chairman of The Brookings Institution, vice-chair of the Obama Foundation, and chairman emeritus of CARE.

From 2003 to 2025, he was a co-owner and served on the Executive Committee of the Boston Celtics Basketball Team (2024 and 2008 NBA World Champions).

He was previously chairman of the board of SunGard Data Systems, Inc. and Instinet, Inc., and a director of AT&T, Nasdaq, Inc., and Virtu Financial.

Mr. Hutchins was a director and chair of the Audit and Risk Committee of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York from 2011-2020. He served President Clinton in both the transition and the White House as a special advisor on economic and healthcare policy. He was also a director of the Harvard Management Company for a decade and co-chairman of Harvard University’s $9B capital campaign.

Mr. Hutchins and his wife, Debbie, founded the Hutchins Family Foundation which, among other projects, has supported the construction of the Obama Presidential Center and created the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University; the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy at The Brookings Institution; the Hutchins Center for Civics at the Lawrenceville School; and the Chronic Fatigue Initiative, which conducted basic research into the cause of chronic fatigue syndrome.

Mr. Hutchins has published essays on economic and public policy in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Washington Post, Financial Times, Fortune, and Foreign Affairs. He is also a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Mr. Hutchins holds an A.B. from Harvard College, an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.

Walter Isaacson

Author, Professor of History at Tulane University

Walter Isaacson is a Professor of History at Tulane. He has been the editor of Time Magazine, the CEO and Chairman of CNN, and the CEO of the Aspen Institute. He is an advisory partner at Perella Weinberg, a financial services firm based in New York City, a cohost of the PBS show Amanpour & Co., a contributor to CNBC, and host of the podcast “Trailblazers,” from Dell Technologies.

He is the author of The Greatest Sentence Ever Written (2025), Elon Musk (2023), The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race (2021), Leonardo da Vinci (2017), The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution (2014), Steve Jobs (2011), Einstein: His Life and Universe (2007), Benjamin Franklin: An American Life (2003), and Kissinger: A Biography (1992), and coauthor of The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made (1986).

Isaacson was born on May 20, 1952 in New Orleans. He is a graduate of Harvard College and Pembroke College of Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He began his career at The Sunday Times in London and then New Orleans’ Times-Picayune. He joined TIME in 1978 and served as a political correspondent, national editor, and editor of digital media before becoming the magazine’s 14th editor in 1996. He became chairman and CEO of CNN in 2001, and then president and CEO of the Aspen Institute in 2003.

He is chair emeritus of Teach for America. From 2005-2007 he was the vice-chair of the Louisiana Recovery Authority, which oversaw the rebuilding after Hurricane Katrina. He was appointed by President Barack Obama to serve as the chair of the Broadcasting Board of Governors, which runs Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, and other international broadcasts of the United States, a position he held from 2009-2012.

In 2023, he was awarded the National Humanities Award by President Joe Biden. Isaacson is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Royal Society of the Arts, and the American Philosophical Society. He  serves on the board of United Airlines, Halliburton Labs, the New Orleans City Planning Commission, the New Orleans Tricentennial Commission, Bloomberg Philanthropies,  the Society of American Historians, and My Brother’s Keeper Alliance.

Emily Janoch

AVP, Design and Thought Leadership and Innovations, CARE

Emily Janoch is the Associate Vice President, Evidence and Learning at CARE, leveraging evidence to improve impact, build dignity, and eradicate poverty.  With 18 years of experience, she is an expert in designing systems to capture and share information by unlocking community voices as well as facilitating conversations with practitioners and decision makers. Emily is skilled in measurement, generating evidence, and ensuring that data is helping to drive decisions.

Emily combines the in-depth knowledge of a skilled researcher with the human perspective from having conducted hundreds of interviews in communities from many of the 100+ countries around the world where CARE works to help secure their own livelihoods and futures. From discussing community level resilience to climate risks and some of the innovative economic and agricultural solutions that are helping people in the world’s poorest regions grow the food they need and earn their own livelihoods, Emily combines a researcher-driven, analytical approach with a compelling ability to share stories that may otherwise never be told.

Emily has a BA in International Studies from the University of Chicago, and a Master’s in Public Policy in International and Global Affairs from the Harvard Kennedy School.

Seema Jayachandran

Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton University

Seema Jayachandran is a Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University. In her research, she studies microeconomic issues in low-income countries, with the goal of designing or identifying policies to address poverty and social inequities. Her current work focuses largely on equality in India, and she has also studied environmental conservation, labor markets, and education in Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, and Latin America.

She currently serves on the Board of Directors of the MIT-based Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL). She also co-directs the National Bureau of Economic Research’s program in Development Economics.

Prior to joining Princeton, she was a faculty member at Stanford University and Northwestern University. She earned a PhD in economics from Harvard University, a master’s degree in physics and philosophy from the University of Oxford where she was a Marshall Scholar, and a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from MIT.

Admiral Michael G. Mullen

17th Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff; 28th Chief of Naval Operations; President, MGM Consulting

Admiral Mike Mullen is President of MGM Consulting which provides counsel to global clients on issues related to geo-political developments, national security interests and strategic leadership.

He served as the 28th Chief of Naval Operations from 2005-2007 and as the 17th Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff for Presidents Bush and Obama from 2007 to 2011. He led the military through two combat ground wars and during a critical time of change and transition.

Admiral Mullen advanced the rapid fielding of innovative technologies, championed emerging and enduring global partnerships, and promoted new methods for countering terrorism. He spearheaded the elimination of the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, ushering for the first time in U.S. military history the open service of gay and lesbian men and women.

Admiral Mullen received an Honorary Doctorate of Laws from Harvard University and is a Distinguished Graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and Naval Postgraduate School, a Distinguished Alumni of Harvard Business School, a Member of the National Academy of Engineering and served as a Trustee at Caltech.

Since his retirement from the United States Navy in November 2011 after 43 years of distinguished and honorable service, Admiral Mullen joined the corporate boards of General Motors from 2013-2018 and Sprint from 2013-2019. He continues to serve on numerous boards to include Bloomberg Philanthropies, Nikon, Naval Academy Foundation, Naval Postgraduate School Foundation and a wide array of nonprofit organizations dedicated to improving the growth, development, recovery, and transition of military veterans and their families.

Additionally, he served on SECDEF’s Defense Innovation Board and taught National Security DecisionMaking and Policy at the Woodrow Wilson School of International and Public Affairs at Princeton University from 2012- 2018. Admiral Mullen currently teaches advanced ethics and leadership at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis Maryland to First Class Midshipman every fall semester.

Jacqueline Novogratz

Founder & CEO, Acumen

Jacqueline Novogratz is the founder and CEO of Acumen, a global organization that fights poverty and builds dignity through patient investment in companies and leaders. She pioneered the concept of patient capital and, through Acumen, has impacted more than 700 million lives across Africa, South Asia, Latin America and the United States. Under her leadership, Acumen manages over $500 million in investments and has trained nearly 2,000 social innovators through Acumen Academy.

A serial social entrepreneur, Jacqueline co-founded Rwanda’s first microfinance bank and founded the Philanthropy Workshop and Next Generation Leaders program while at the Rockefeller Foundation. She began her career in international banking with Chase Manhattan Bank. She is the author of The Blue Sweater and Manifesto for a Moral Revolution, and has been recognized by Forbes as one of the “100 Greatest Living Business Minds.” She holds an MBA from Stanford and a BA from the University of Virginia.

Michelle Nunn

President & CEO, CARE

Michelle Nunn leads more than 7,000 people working in 121 countries to save lives and defeat poverty. In her 10 years at the helm, CARE has taken its fundraising and impact to new levels, reaching more than 58.7 million people in 2025.

Michelle believes in human solidarity, that lasting impact comes from people advocating for change at the community level, and that the most powerful tools are often also the simplest.

She co-founded the volunteer-mobilization nonprofit Hands On Atlanta, led its 2007 merger with President George H.W. Bush’s Points of Light, and was Points of Light CEO for six years. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Virginia with a major in history and minor in religion; earned a master’s in public administration from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and received a Kellogg Fellowship to study faith and social justice in more than 12 countries. She lives in Atlanta with her family.

Una Osili

Executive Director, Philanthropy, Strategy and Operations, Eli Lilly and Company Foundation

Una Osili is the Executive Director of Philanthropy, Strategy and Operations for the Eli Lilly and Company Foundation.  She previously served as the Efroymson Chair in Philanthropy and Economics at the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy at Indiana University and the Associate Dean of Research and International Programs at the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, the world’s first School of philanthropy.

Dr. Osili is an innovative leader with a wealth of experience spanning over 25 years in global development, social innovation, and philanthropic strategy.  Her expertise  includes building multi-country collaborations, research and program development, fund development, strategic planning, managing and communicating with complex stakeholders and boards, and overseeing financial and regulatory issues. She has an in-depth understanding of working with governments, donors, foundations, and nonprofits on partnership-building, fundraising, organizational development, program design, and thought leadership. Osili has successfully collaborated with funders, researchers, corporations, nonprofits, and policymakers to achieve significant impact. Trained as a development economist, she is a strategic relationship-builder, and skilled resource mobilizer who brings excellence, vision, and sound judgment to achieve high-impact results.

Osili has worked at the forefront of global philanthropy research, leading the research and publication of the Global Philanthropy Tracker and the Global Philanthropy Environment Index. These indices, which are the key source of global development and social innovation data trends, involve collaboration with more than 100 country and regional experts in over 90 countries.  She has pioneered new approaches to using data to understand economic development and philanthropy trends, expanding research in the field.

Osili has provided expert testimony at the Senate Finance Committee, the Joint Economic Commission, and the United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee on philanthropy, international development, and the role of the public sector. She has also led collaborative research projects with global corporations, institutions, and government entities. Dr. Osili is a consultant with the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and has worked on cross-sector initiatives on financial inclusion and economic development.

Dr. Osili’s entrepreneurial spirit is evident in her role as the Founder of Generosity for Life, a digital platform that provides innovative data tools for financial decision-making in philanthropy and social impact. Her leadership in this initiative, along with her role in leading the school’s signature research project, the Philanthropy Panel Study (PPS), underscores her commitment to advancing the field of philanthropy. Osili leads the research and publication of Giving USA, the annual report on American philanthropy. She leads the school’s signature research project, the Philanthropy Panel Study (PPS). PPS is the most comprehensive study of the generosity of American families over time.  She has authored more than 100 academic articles and reports.

Una has significant governance experience and serves on the boards of DAF Giving 360 (Schwab Charitable), CARE, the Clowes Fund, the National Bank of Indianapolis, and the Central Indiana Community Foundation (CICF) Board where she Chairs the Nominations and Governance Committee and is a member of the Impact Investing committee.

Una received her bachelor’s degree in economics from Harvard University and her master’s and Ph.D. in economics from Northwestern University. The NonProfit Times named Dr. Una Osili to its 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, and 2019 “Power and Influence Top 50,” recognizing her leadership in the philanthropic sector. Indianapolis Business Journal named Una ‘Woman of Influence’ and Dr. Osili, was appointed as a fellow for the Institute of Labor (IZA) in Bonn, Germany.

Christian Pennotti

Managing Director, Digital Impact Hub, CARE

Christian Pennotti leads CARE’s global efforts to ensure that technology expands opportunity rather than deepens inequality. With more than 25 years of experience, he has led initiatives spanning more than 100 countries with annual portfolios of more than $200 million. He builds partnerships with donors and institutions including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth, Mars, Microsoft, the World Bank, and the U.S. Government. A founder, board member, and advisor to efforts ranging from startups to industry-wide networks, Christian is known for his work at the intersection of digital equality, economic opportunity, and systems-level change.

James Richardson

Executive Director to the 70th Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo; Executive Chairman, The Pompeo Foundation

James “Jim” Richardson is the Executive Director to the 70th Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, working on various ventures and programs.  He is also the Executive Chairman of The Pompeo Foundation, a 501c(3) dedicated to thoughtful discussion and education on some of the world’s toughest challenges.

He was previously Director of the Office of Foreign Assistance at the U.S. Department of State. On behalf of the Secretary of State, he coordinated $35 billion in foreign assistance across the State Department and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), ensuring policy, performance, and budget alignment. He was also responsible for foreign assistance strategic planning, policy, and monitoring and evaluation standards.

Prior to that, Mr. Richardson served as Coordinator of USAID’s Transformation Task Team. He led the historic reorganization to reshape the Agency around the principle of ‘Ending the Need for Foreign Assistance,’ establishing new Bureaus, policies, processes, and workforce solutions. Concurrent with his role on Transformation, Jim was Assistant to the Administrator in USAID’s Bureau for Policy, Planning and Learning (PPL). He was responsible for agency-wide strategic planning, policy development, monitoring and evaluation standards, and international donor coordination.

With over 25 years of private and government service, Mr. Richardson spearheaded numerous complex operations and developed an extensive public policy and legislative process background. He served as Chief of Staff for then-Congressman Mike Pompeo (KS-04) —overseeing Congressman Pompeo’s offices in Washington, DC, and Wichita, Kansas.  He also worked with the House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee for Congressman Todd Tiahrt (KS-04), the House Armed Services Committee for Congressman Jim Ryun (KS-02), and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for Senator John Ashcroft (R-MO). He began his government career with Senator Christopher “Kit” Bond (R-MO).

Mr. Richardson holds a Master of Science in Defense and Strategic Studies from Missouri State University and a Bachelor of Science in Government from Evangel University. He also graduated from the United States Air Force Air Command and Staff College (ACSC).

English Sall

Industrial-Organization Psychologist and Researcher

English Sall is a data enthusiast and researcher at heart. She is a board member of the Sall Family Foundation and pursuing the role of a next gen philanthropist. English is currently pursuing her PhD in Industrial Organizational Psychology (IOP) at North Carolina State University. English specializes in Humanitarian Work Psychology and is especially interested in how IOP can be applied to cross-cultural leadership and work-force development within informal economies. She is co-founder of an organization called Impact Thread. Using industrial organizational psychology Impact thread addresses workforce and organizational development through the lens of social good. Throughout her undergraduate and graduate career English has gained diverse experience designing research projects and utilizing applied analytics in the space of Humanitarian Work Psychology.

English is a recipient of The Dedication Medal from the Red Cross for dedication to providing Life Saving Blood Services as well as receiving several recognitions for her work with the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. English is also a board member of Aspen Management Partnership for Health, The EndFund, and Jacaranda. Before co-founding Impact Thread, English was co-director for Aspen Institute’s Impact Careers Initiative. English has also worked as a Data Strategist Fellow with Organize and as a member of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychologists-United Nations Liaison team. English joined CARE’s Board of Directors in 2018.

Ritu Sharma

Chief Global Policy Officer, CARE

Ritu Sharma, MPH, is CARE’s Chief Global Policy Officer. Previously at CARE, she served as Vice President for U.S. Programs and Policy Advocacy. She guides the organization’s advocacy towards the U.S. Government, international institutions, and across 42 national governments. In addition, Ritu leads CARE’s nascent work across the United States providing emergency response to disasters and economic opportunities for women post-disaster.

Ritu is one of three co-chairs of the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network (MFAN), a bipartisan coalition of international development and foreign policy practitioners, advocates, and experts. MFAN promotes more effective and accountable U.S. foreign assistance.

Prior to CARE, Ritu was a Regional Director at the International Youth Foundation (IYF) working on young women’s economic opportunity, and a Senior Fellow with the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) leading the joint CSIS-IYF Youth, Prosperity, and Security Initiative.

Ritu is author of Teach a Woman to Fish: Overcoming Poverty Around the Globe (Palgrave MacMillan, 2014).

Ritu holds a BSFS in international economics from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and an MPH from Johns Hopkins University’s School of Hygiene and Public Health.

Mona Sherpa

Country Director, Nepal, CARE

Mona Sherpa is a highly experienced activist and development leader with over 20 years of expertise in women’s rights, equality for women and girls, and social inclusion. As the Country Director at CARE Nepal, she leads the organization’s strategic vision and provides expert guidance to the program quality team. Her leadership encompasses three critical thematic areas: women and girls’ equality, health, and education; women’s economic empowerment and environmental resilience; and disaster risk reduction with a focus on women and girls in emergencies.

Additionally, she oversees the program quality, learning, communications, and operations teams. Her responsibilities include managing donor and stakeholder relationships, ensuring robust financial and operational management, and upholding risk management, accountability, and strategic alignment within the country office. She has also worked with CARE Afghanistan as Deputy Country Director on a six-month deployment in 2022. As a member of the senior management team of CARE Nepal, she contributes to major organizational decisions.

Mona’s impactful work extends globally, with experiences in various countries across South Asia, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Bangladesh, Kyrgyzstan, and Switzerland. Her expertise in working effectively with government agencies and donors, coupled with her multi-sectoral project management, has led partnerships with organizations including, USAID, FCDO, ECHO, EC, DFAT, SDC, BHA, BPRM, various foundations, and UN bodies.

An accomplished researcher, Mona has led multi-country research projects on various critical issues, such as unpaid care work, safe cities/public spaces, peacebuilding, and shifting social norms affecting women and girls in infrastructure projects. Currently, she spearheads research on sustaining power for women’s movements (SuPWR), analyzing backlash, strategies, and successes. Mona’s expertise has made her a well-known analyst in national and international media, where she provides insightful analysis on contemporary women’s rights, governance, and policy agendas. Her interview with BBC World shed light on Nepal’s COVID-19 situation, bringing attention to marginalized communities and the broader social and economic effects of the pandemic. She was also recognized by Rotary International as one of the top 100 influential women in Nepal.

Anne-Marie Slaughter

CEO, New America

Anne-Marie Slaughter is a global leader, scholar, and public commentator. She is currently CEO of New America, a think and action tank dedicated to renewing the promise of America in a period of rapid demographic, technological, and global change. She previously served as a professor of international, foreign, and comparative law at Harvard Law School; dean of the School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University; and as the first woman director of policy planning for the United States Department of State.

Rick Stengel

Former Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs; Former Editor, TIME

Richard Stengel is the former Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs in the Obama administration. Prior to serving in government, Stengel was the Editor of TIME for seven years. He was also the president and CEO of the National Constitution Center. In the 1990s, he collaborated with Nelson Mandela on the South African’s bestselling autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom. The many hours of taped interviews from that time were the basis of Stengel’s 10-part award-winning audiobook, Mandela: The Lost Tapes, from Audible. Stengel is the author of a number of books, the most recent of which is Information Wars: How We Lost the Global Battle Against Disinformation. He is a political analyst for MSNBC and a Senior Advisor at WestExec Advisors.

Under his leadership, TIME won the National Magazine Award for Magazine of the Year in 2012, the only time it has ever done so. In that same year, Stengel received an Emmy award for his work as executive producer of TIME’s documentary, Beyond 9/11: Portraits of Resilience. In addition to Information Wars, Stengel is also the author of January Sun: One Day, Three Lives, a South African Town; You’re Too Kind: A Brief History of Flattery, The Constitution: The Essential User’s Guide, and Mandela’s Way, a New York Times-bestselling memoir of his time working with the South African leader. Stengel is a graduate of Princeton University where he played on the 1975 NIT championship basketball team. He then studied English and history at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar.

Ann Vaughan

AVP, Resilient Futures, CARE

Ann Vaughan is the Associate Vice President, Resilient Futures for CARE. In this role she helps advance partnerships and programs that support CARE’s work to help 25 million people become more climate resilient and unlock climate finance for development that supports women, girls, boys, and men. She previously served as a Deputy Assistant Administrator of the Bureau for Resilience, Environment and Food Security at USAID, helping to oversee Feed the Future, the U.S. government’s global food security initiative. From 2021-2023, Ann helped create and lead the President’s Emergency Plan for Adaptation and Resilience (PREPARE), a whole government initiative to help 500 million people become more resilient to the impacts of climate change. Prior to joining USAID, Ann oversaw a global flood resilience alliance, led advocacy efforts at Mercy Corps, where she advanced legislation on food security and global fragility, served as a field officer for USAID in Kandahar, Afghanistan, and was a foreign aid Appropriations Associate for U.S. Congresswoman Nita Lowey. She started her international development career as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Quilali, Nicaragua. She has her Master’s in International Development Studies with a focus on post-conflict reconstruction from George Washington University and undergraduate degree from the College of William and Mary.

Judy Woodruff

Senior Correspondent, PBS News Hour

Broadcast journalist Judy Woodruff is the Senior Correspondent for PBS News Hour. She previously served for 11 years as its anchor and managing editor. In 2023, she launched “America at a Crossroads,” a reporting project to better understand the country’s political divide. She has covered politics and other news for more than four decades at CNN, NBC, and PBS.

The recipient of numerous awards, including the Peabody Journalistic Integrity Award, the Poynter Medal, an Emmy for Lifetime Achievement, and the Radcliffe Medal, she and the late Gwen Ifill were together awarded Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism after Woodruff and Ifill were named co-anchors of the PBS News Hour in 2013, marking the first time an American national news broadcast would be co-anchored by two women.

For 12 years, Woodruff served as anchor and senior correspondent for CNN, where her duties included anchoring the weekday program, Inside Politics. At PBS from 1983 to 1993, she was the chief Washington correspondent for The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour. From 1984–1990, she also anchored PBS’ award-winning weekly documentary series, Frontline with Judy Woodruff. In 2011, Woodruff was the principal reporter for the PBS documentary Nancy Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime. And in 2007, she completed an extensive project for PBS and other news outlets on the views of young Americans called Generation Next: Speak Up. Be Heard.

In 2006, Woodruff was a visiting professor at Duke University’s Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy. In 2005, she was a visiting fellow at Harvard University’s Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy. From 2006-2013, she anchored a monthly program for Bloomberg Television, Conversations with Judy Woodruff.

At NBC News, Woodruff was White House correspondent from 1977 to 1982. For one year after that she served as NBC’s Today show chief Washington correspondent. She wrote the book This is Judy Woodruff at the White House, published in 1982 by Addison-Wesley.

Woodruff is a founding co-chair of the International Women’s Media Foundation, an organization dedicated to promoting and encouraging women in communication industries worldwide. She serves on the boards of trustees of the Freedom Forum and The Duke Endowment. Formerly she was a trustee of the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the Urban Institute, and a member of The Knight Foundation Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics.

Woodruff is a graduate of Duke University, where she is a trustee emerita. She lives in Washington, DC, with her husband, journalist Al Hunt, and they are the parents of three children.