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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 the IRC to resettle Sudanese refugees, and serving as a Peace Corps volunteer in Armenia.

Jen has an MBA in international business and nonprofit management from George Washington University.

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 other venues.

Fsahat is also a regional council member of Rah-nu-ma and the National Focal Point for the Global Youth Coalition on HIV/AIDS.

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.

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 the open data movement in Nepal, through the OpenNepal consortium, and the first open data portal for Nepal.

Prior to YoungInnovations, Bibhusan worked with Bellanet, an IDRC project, and SAP International, a regional INGO in South Asia. Bibhusan is also a part-time faculty at Kathmandu College of Management.

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 has included several large-scale evaluations for IFAD, ILO, the European Union and IDRC.

Ziad is a former board member of the International Development Evaluation Association and a former leader of the MENA Evaluation Association.

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 International Human Rights Law at Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt, Germany and at the Universidade de Coimbra in Portugal.

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 served as Education Programme Manager of the Earth Charter Initiative, which promotes sustainable ways of living through respect and care for the environment, human rights, justice, democracy and peace. He also spent four years at A.T. Kearney, a management consulting firm based in San Francisco.

He was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University, and a Master of Education degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

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 M&E Community of Practice; conduct independent evaluations of the foundation’s most important investments; and provide teams and leadership with access to relevant data for learning and decision-making.

Prior to joining the foundation, Jodi was the director of Research and Evaluation at the International Rescue Committee. There for almost ten years, Jodi created two new initiatives to improve the organization’s measurement system. In 2003, Jodi raised private funds to launch a three year effort to bridge the gap between academic research and IRC’s field program implementation. Jodi advocated for and founded a department dedicated to research and evaluation. As its director, Jodi strengthened the agency’s program design capacity; streamlined data collection and analysis across country offices; and built capacity for the use of rigorous evaluation for learning and decision-making. This included partnering with bilateral organizations and university scholars to evaluate post-conflict development models in settings such as Liberia, DR Congo, Cote d’Ivoire, Burundi and Afghanistan.

Jodi worked before this at several nonprofit organizations with international missions, including the Asia Society, the Society for International Development, the World Resources Institute, and the Committee for Economic Development. She has taught graduate courses on international development and evaluation at Princeton University and New York University.

Jodi has a doctorate in Political Science from Columbia University with a concentration in political economy, and a Bachelor’s from Northwestern University. Jodi was a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations from 2000-2007, and currently serves on the board of Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA), the Antelope Foundation and Maloto, an innovative nonprofit organization committed to youth in Malawi.

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 of the Board of Directors for Everybody Dance Now!, where earlier this year she also led the organization as interim Executive Director. Through her work during the past 20 years, she has advocated for children, youth and families living in poverty, and those searching for access to better resources and opportunities. Stefanie now lives in Costa Rica with her husband, her 1-year-old son, and their two dogs, where she works as a non-profit management consultant, and as a private psychologist. 

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, seeking to lay the foundations for long-term development by promoting reconciliation, jump starting economies and helping stable democracy take hold.

Prior to joining USAID nearly six years ago, Graber-Simmons worked for the American National Red Cross in its response to pandemic influenza, and before that she worked for the UNDP in Fiji, mainly on disaster preparedness projects. Graber-Simmons has a Master’s in International Development from Monash University and a Graduate Diploma in International Relations/Development from the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University.