About the Event
Join us from Sept. 23-25, 2025 in New York City and online for Devex’s events on the sidelines of the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly and Climate Week. In a rapidly changing world, addressing global challenges is more urgent than ever. The future can't wait for solutions to health crises, climate change, technological risks, and systemic inequalities.
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Past Speakers:
Dr. Ayman Abdelmohsen
Chief of the sexual and reproductive health and rights branch, UNFPA
Degan Ali
Executive director, Adeso
Anand Anandkumar
Co-founder and CEO, BUGWORKS
Leslie Archambeault
Managing director, humanitarian policy, Save the Children
Dr. Ruben Ayala
Chief of policy and advocacy, Operation Smile
Xiye Bastida
Co-founder, Re-Earth Initiative
Kathy Baughman McLeod
CEO, Climate Resilience for All
Jemina Bernard
President and chief operating officer, Teach For America
David Bersoff
Head of research, Edelman Trust Institute
Chidi Blyden
Deputy CEO, Millennium Challenge Corporation
Winnie Byanyima
Executive director, UNAIDS; under-secretary-general of the United Nations
Sasha Chanoff
Founder and CEO, RefugePoint
Yamide Dagnet
International senior vice president, NRDC
Professor Dame Sally Davies
U.K. government's special envoy on antimicrobial resistance
Alex de Waal
Executive director, World Peace Foundation
Dr. Boro Dropulić
Executive director and co-founder, Caring Cross
Mafalda Duarte
Executive director, Green Climate Fund
Renata Dwan
Special adviser to the U.N. secretary-general's envoy on technology
America Ferrera
IOM global goodwill ambassador
Henrietta Fore
Chairman and CEO, Holsman International
Kevin Fowler
Principal, The Voice of the Patient
Cary Fowler
Special envoy for Global Food Security, U.S. Department of State
Michèle Griffin
Director of the Summit of the Future/Common Agenda team, United Nations Executive Office of the Secretary-General
Sarita Gupta
Vice president of US Programs, Ford Foundation
Vivianne Ihekweazu
Managing director, Nigeria Health Watch
Chikwe Ihekweazu
Former director-general, Nigeria Centre for Disease Contro
Nasra Ismail
Executive director, Alight
Jayasree Iyer
CEO, Access to Medicine Foundation
Ramatu Jalloh Yorpoi
Community health worker supervisor, Partners In Health
Amel Karboul
CEO, The Education Outcomes Fund
Nabeeha Kazi Hutchins
President and CEO, PAI
Afshan Khan
United Nations assistant secretary-general; coordinator of the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement
Jeremy Konyndyk
President, Refugees International
Phyllis Kurlander Costanza
Principal and Chief Social Investment Officer, Advanced Portfolio Management, Social Investment Solutions
Kevin Kyle
CEO, Germfree Laboratories
Alexia Latortue
Assistant secretary for international trade and development, U.S. Department of Treasury
Ramanan Laxminarayan
President and senior fellow, One Health Trust
Valerie Luyckx
Chair of advocacy working group, International Society of Nephrology
Fernando Marani
Program director of inequality and exclusion, NYU Center on International Cooperation
Tsitsi Masiyiwa
Chair, END Fund
Dr. Ruchit Nagar
Co-founder and CEO, Khushi Baby
Dr. Earthea Nance
Region 6 administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Jonathan Papoulidis
Vice-president, external engagement, Food for the Hungry
Dr. Muhammad Ali Pate
Coordinating minister of health and social welfare, Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Nigeria
Jay Persaud
EY Global Emerging Technology Ecosystem Leader
Nedim Pipic
Global head of mental health, Boehringer Ingelheim
Amy Pope
Director-general, International Organization for Migration (IOM)
Mustafa Qadri
Founder and CEO, Equidem
Keller Rinaudo Cliffton
Chief executive Officer, Zipline
Marie-Ange Saraka-Yao
Chief resource mobilization and growth officer, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance
Abdulwasea Mohammed
Advocacy, campaigns and media manager, Oxfam
Daouda Sembene
Founder and CEO, AfriCatalyst
Bright Simons
President and founder, mPedigree
Sophie Sirtaine
CEO, CGAP
Vanessa Smith
President, ServiceNow.org
James Snowden
Senior program officer, Open Philantropy
Dr. Christine Sow
President and CEO, Humentum
Greg Spencer
Co-founder & CEO, Common Good Marketplace
Uyi Stewart
Chief data & technology officer, data.org
Caroline Teti
VP for risk, safeguarding and compliance, Give Directly
Kenton Thibaut
Senior resident fellow for China, Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab)
Hamdi Ulukaya
Founder and CEO
Carmen Villar
Vice president, ESG and corporate citizenship, Gilead Sciences
Ankur Vora
Chief strategy officer, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Derek Walker
Future generations commissioner for Wales
