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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 foreign assistance. Her most recent book is Judicial Reform and Development: Rethinking Assistance to Developing and Transition Countries.

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 Business for Social Responsibility, the Inter-American Development Bank and the United Nations Global Compact

Originally from Brazil, Tamar holds a B.A. in International Relations from the University of Southern California and an M.A. in International Affairs from the University of California-San Diego.

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.

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 Cluster Munition Coalition where she has been actively engaged in the negotiations of the Convention on Cluster Munitions. Serena also helped found the Global Alliance on Armed Violence and has supported the creation of local and regional networks; such as the Nigeria Working Group on Armed Violence and the Latin American network SEHLAC.

She holds a master in international relations from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva.

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 fields of social entrepreneurship, innovation, public health, healthcare, and the use of technology for development and emergency and disaster response. He has consulted or spoken on these topics at Davos, TEDx, SciFoo, Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Google, DARPA, the Clinton Global Initiative, the Royal Society of Medicine, Fox News, and many other venues. He is a judge for the GSMA Global Mobile Awards and for the Classy Awards for Social Impact, and is a winner of both the $100,000 Lemelson-MIT Award for Sustainability and the Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Award.

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 Understanding. Since moving to Dubai in 2005, he’s been a government consultant specialized on public diplomacy in the Arab world, a frequent television commentator, and op-ed columnist for the region’s largest English daily.

Belabbes studied International Relations, Philosophy of Law and Middle East Politics. A son of Algerian immigrants to Germany, he is a polyglot conversant in six languages and with a basic knowledge of another three.

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 launched at the UN on April 24th, 2014 and is currently co-leading the process to develop Operational Guidance on the same topic.

He served as a co-founder and Associate Director at American University's Peacebuilding & Development Institute in Washington, DC and is currently one of the founding members and chair of the board for PDI-SL in Sri Lanka, an internationally recognized South Asia focused training and research Institution. 

Saji was born in Sri Lanka and holds a Master's Degree in International Peace & Conflict Resolution with a Concentration in International Law from American University. 

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 the Red Cross in Afghanistan, Democratic Republic of Congo, Chechnya, Darfur and Iraq. He is a Certified Professional Facilitator and an Accredited Practitioner of Social Return on Investment.

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.