Gemma Graham is Resource Mobilisation Director at Restless Development. She’ll join us to share her experience as an interim Co-CEO as part of the organisation’s co-leadership experiment.

Lysa John is Secretary-General of CIVICUS, a global alliance dedicated to protecting civil society and civic freedoms. She is passionate about governance accountability and social justice and has spent a large part of her work coordinating large-scale civil society campaigns.

Joanna is Director of Knowledge Translation and Equality Insights at the International Women’s Development Agency. She has a strong record of advocating for social change using evidence-based and multi-stakeholder strategies, and over a decade of experience in the international development and humanitarian sectors, with a focus on research, program management, policy and advocacy.

Alex is the co-founder of The Equity Index and a researcher, facilitator and advocate dedicated to creating evidence in support of a reformed international development system. She holds an MPhil in Politics from the University of Oxford and a BA from the University of Pennsylvania in International Relations and Theatre Arts. Originally from South Africa, she has lived in Brazil, the U.S. and is currently based in London.

Lorriann is the co-founder of The Equity Index and director of The Advocacy Team. Previously, she worked with World Vision UK as Senior Policy Adviser and prior to that at the ONE Campaign, where played a leading role in the campaign to enshrine the 0.7% aid target into UK law, helped to raise billions in development finance for health and education programmes in the poorest countries, and secured ground-breaking policy reforms to fight corruption.