Saleemul Huq is the director of the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) in Bangladesh, and is an expert on the links between climate change and sustainable development, particularly from the perspective of developing countries. He was the lead author of the chapter on Adaptation and Sustainable Development in the third assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and was the lead author of the chapter on Adaptation and Mitigation in the IPCC’s fourth assessment report.

Senior Consultant for International Development Cooperation and Associate Professor of the Academic Support Unit of the Secretary of International Relations of the University of the Republic. Coordinator and Teacher of Course of International Cooperation and Culture for Development in the Cultural School of CLAEH University. From March 2015 to February 2020 she was the Executive Director of the Uruguayan Agency of International Cooperation (AUCI) – Presidency of the Republic, Uruguay. From that post, she led the positioning of Uruguay as a country in transition to development with a dual role in International Cooperation with a focus on Human Rights and the 2030 Agenda. From AUCI, she guided the political-technical negotiation, which allowed the approval of the “Uruguay ́s International Cooperation Policy for Sustainable Development by 2030”.

Simon Reid-Henry is an academic and a key contributor to the conceptual development of Global Public Investment. Simon is a member of the EWG Steering Committee and is Academic Lead for the EWG’s technical papers. He has written widely on international affairs, development, and political economy, including the books The Cuban Cure: Reason and Resistance in Global Science and The Political Origins of Inequality: Why a more equal world is better for us all. Simon is a Fellow of the RSA and a recipient of the Leverhulme Prize. He received his PhD in Economic Geography from the University of Cambridge before moving to Queen Mary University of London where he is presently Professor of Historical and Political Geography and Director of the Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences. He has held visiting positions at Columbia University in New York, at Macquarie University in Sydney, at the Norwegian Institute of Foreign Affairs and as Senior Researcher at the Peace Research Institute Oslo. Simon is also co-convenor of London Inequality Studies. His writing can be found in The Guardian, New Statesman, The Economist, The Times, The Independent on Sunday, and the London Review of Books. He has appeared on radio and television and has presented to government agencies in the UK and abroad. Recently he has contributed to the UK Labour task force on international development and is currently collaborating with the Joep Lange Institute on GPI.

Jonathan Glennie is a writer, campaigner and consultant on human rights, international cooperation, sustainable development and poverty. His work looks in particular at the changing nature of international cooperation as dominant paradigms and global economic relationships evolve. He has held senior positions in several international organisations, including Save the Children, Christian Aid and Ipsos. He has published two books on aid and cooperation (The trouble with aid: why less could mean more for Africa and Aid, growth and poverty with Andy Sumner) and helped set up The Guardian‘s Global Development website, for which he was a regular columnist. As a consultant, he has worked with governments, international agencies and civil society organisations as they renew their strategies for a new era. His book The Future of Aid: Global Public Investment, was published by Routledge in November 2020. He is currently co-founder of a think tank called Global Nation, along with Hassan Damluji, working on a new approach to international cooperation. He lives with his family in Colombia.

Mavis Owusu-Gyamfi is the Executive Vice President at the African Centre for Economic Transformation (ACET) – a pan-African economic policy institute supporting Africa’s long-term growth through transformation. Prior to joining ACET, she was the Director of Investments at The Power of Nutrition. Previous positions include Director for Programme Policy and Quality (PPQ) at Save the Children UK and a number of Private Sector Development (PSD) specialist positions at the UK Department for International Development (DFID) over 15 years. In her last role at DFID, she was a Deputy Director with responsibility for PSD policy and technical specialists across the Department.

Mavis has over 20 years of international development experience in Africa, Asia and Eastern Caribbean. She has led multi-sectoral teams in both government and non-governmental organisations to develop and successfully implement programmes in the social and economic sectors in over 30 countries. She is currently a Trustee of Sightsavers and a board member of The Coalition for Global Prosperity.

She is a political economist by training and has an MPhil from the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex. Her publications include Binding Constraints to Growth in Nigeria (Oxford University Press, 2008) and Growth and Competitiveness (World Bank, 2007).

Anton Ofield-Kerr is the Executive Director of Equal International, a niche group focused on supporting policies and programmes that promote the inclusion of the most marginalised in policy development and program delivery, and has been supporting thought leadership on the future of aid in collaboration with a number of partners for some years. Anton began his career as a nurse in South Africa specialising in intensive care medicine before moving into policy and international development. He is a specialist in policy and strategy development as well as facilitating multi sectoral collaborations. Anton has been involved in many initiatives which have shifted policies, introduced innovations and raised resources for development challenges relating to HIV, health and human rights with a focus on meeting the needs of marginalised communities and those at risk of being ‘left behind’.

Solange Baptiste is Executive Director of the International Treatment Preparedness Coalition (ITPC). She leads community activists and allies across the globe to deliver ITPC’s mission to enable people in need to access optimal and affordable HIV treatment through treatment education, demand creation, community-based monitoring and interventions to make medicines more affordable. Solange has over 15 years of global program management and advocacy experience and specialises in monitoring and evaluation. She has a depth of knowledge in social epidemiology, health financing and community systems strengthening in the developing world through her work on USAID/PEPFAR health and development, bilateral and multi-county projects across Africa and Asia. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Biology from Tuskegee University and her Master of Science in Population and International Health from the Harvard School of Public Health. Solange is committed to ensuring that the voice of affected communities contributes to and influences the decisions and policies that affect their lives.

Alicia Ely Yamin is currently Senior Fellow at Harvard Law School; and Senior Advisor on Human Rights at Partners in Health. Yamin’s 30 -year career at the intersection of global health and human rights has bridged academia and activism. Yamin has lived and worked in Latin America and East Africa for half of her professional life, working with and through local advocacy organizations. In 2016, the UN Secretary General appointed Yamin as one of ten international experts to the Independent Accountability Panel (IAP) for the SDGs. She also serves on the WHO’s Technical Advisory Group on Health Technology Assessments, as well as the Lancet Commission on Arctic Health and the Expert Working Group on Global Public Investment.

The inflection point provided by this sweeping pandemic and its consequences should push us to enlarge our imaginations as to what a new model of global public investment in health and beyond can achieve in our staggeringly unequal world.

Harpinder (Pin) Collacott is the Executive Director for Mercy Corps Europe. Prior to joining Mercy Corps in October 2022, she was Chief Executive of Development Initiatives. She is Chair of SOS Children’s Villages UK, Vice-Chair of UK umbrella body, BOND, and until October 2022 a Board Trustee of WaterAid UK. Harpinder has a diverse background in development and international affairs. At Development Initiatives she championed bringing data and evidence into the policy space and working with partners around the world to tackle poverty, inequality and build resilience. Over the last 25 years, she has held a variety of roles including the Political Advisor to the Prosecutor with the War Crimes Tribunal for Sierra Leone, Human Rights Programme Officer for the Oak Foundation, and South Asia Researcher for the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Harpinder holds an undergraduate from Cambridge University and a postgraduate in international relations from London School of Economics.

Prof. Milindo Chakrabarti has been an ardent student of collective action processes in a professional career that has been continuing for well over three decades. Besides teaching and research, he is engaged in linking academics with actions at the field level. His interest in global public goods and search for a robust and sustained institutional mechanism to ensure their adequate supplies encourage him to contribute meaningfully to initiatives that involve global collective actions. He is at present serving as a Professor with Jindal School of Government and Public Policy, O. P. Jindal Global University, India and also as a Visiting Fellow at Research and Information Systems for Developing Countries (RIS). His specialisations include South-South Cooperation and assessment of its impact on the development dynamics in the Global South. He is the Managing Editor of Development Cooperation Review, a quarterly journal devoted to chronicling the dynamics of development cooperation, in general and that of South-South Cooperation, in particular. The present global initiative at creating a proper roadmap to facilitate global public investment for provision of adequate global public goods as well as protecting the global commons is a correct step in the desired direction and motivates him to join such endeavour.