Speakers 2026

Abdirahman Barkhad

Programme Director, YouthLink Somalia

Abdulqawi Hajeb

Manager of the Yemen Localisation Initiative (YLI) , Tamdeen Youth Foundation

Afshin Amini

QHSE Manager, ICRC

Ahed Al Ezzo

Country Director Syria, Première Urgence Internationale

Ahmed Ibrahim Abdi

Convenor, ASAL Humanitarian Network

Albashir Ibrahim

Executive Director, Organization for Sustainable Development Africa (OSDA)

Allison Neale

Head of Government Strategic Initiatives & Global Health Security, Henry Schein, Inc

Alyoscia D'Onofrio

Vice President & Head of Technical Excellence, International Rescue Committee

Amar Patel

Risk Finance Adviser, Centre for Disaster Protection (CDP)

Amr Awad

Medical Advocacy Adviser, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)

Andreas Kiaby

Chief Advisor, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark

Anna Hakobyan

Chief Impact Officer and Executive Director, Nutrition, Children Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF)

Anna Tazita Samuel

Executive Director, Women for Change (WFC) South Sudan

Anne-Sofie Munk

Director, Humanitarian Innovative Finance Hub (HIFHUB)

Atef Fawaz

Executive Director, eHealth Africa

Aurelien Hubert

Head of Emergency Responses and Operations, Foundation S - The Sanofi Collective

Avril Patterson

Head of Health Programs, ICRC

Awa Babington-Ashaye

Digital Health Advisor, Geneva Digital Health Hub

Aya Yagan‏

Technical Director, NSDation Syria

Bahati Ernestine

Technical Advisor - Refugee Leadership and Refugee Centered Programming, RefugeePoint

Ben Constable Maxwell

Head of Sustainable and Impact Investment, M&G Investments

Benjamin Warder

Global Security Operations Manager, Samaritan’s Purse International

Berenika Różańska

Co-Founder and Strategy Head, Phoenix Space

Bukola Onyishi

Country Director, Women for Women International Nigeria

Candace Kelly

Chief Legal Officer, Stellar Development Foundation

Catherine Naisu

Executive Director, Hamiza Development Foundation (HDF) Uganda

Christelle Delenclos

Vice President of Global Business Development for the Humanitarian Sector, Ecolog International

Christian Modino Hok

Humanitarian Director, Caritas International

Claire Finas

Global Coordinator, ACT Rapid Response Fund

Colette Selman

Director for Fragile and Conflict Countries, GAVI

Damon Elsworth

Humanitarian Impact Finance Lead, Medair

Dima Al Farah

Global MHPSS Advisor, War Child Alliance

Dominik Stillhart

Head of the Swiss Humanitarian Aid Unit, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)

Dominik Zotti

Head of Private Sector, IFIs and Innovative Finance, IFRC

Doogie Black

Chief Executive Officer, Climate Sense

Dorina Ardeleanu

Head of Global Institutional Partnerships, Terre des Hommes Foundation

Dr. Tareq Ahmed Mohamed Al Ameri

Chairman, UAE Aid Agency

Eleonora Aralla

Country Representative - Zimbabwe and Eswatini, CAFOD

Eleonora Colpo

Field Coordinator Afghanistan, EMERGENCY ONG

Elise Baudot

Head of Humanitarian Financing, International Council of Voluntary Agencies (ICVA)

Emad Al Shammari

Senior Director, Global Supply Chain & Security, Project HOPE

Erastus Kyalo

Head of Programs and Partnerships, CARE International Kenya

Erika Placella

Head of Health and Food, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)

Fiona Mavhinga

Executive Director – CAMFED Association Development, CAMFED Association

Florent Chané

Project Manager, Emergency Supply Prepositioning Strategy (ESUPS), Welthungerhilfe

Gloria Soma

Executive Director, Titi Foundation South Sudan

Greg Spencer

Founder and CEO, Common Good Marketplace

Gregory Renand

Head, Z Zurich Foundation

Gwydion Williams

Deputy Director, AI, PATH

Helen McElhinney

Executive Director, CDAC

Imraan Choonara

Chief Executive Officer, Africa Muslims Agency (AMA)

Irene Dawa

Founder and Technical Advisor, CEPAD (Community Empowerment for Peace and Development - West Nile)

Jagan Chapagain

Chief Executive Officer and Secretary General, IFRC

Jake Bailey

President, EVERYWHERE Communications

Jane Newman

Director, Social Finance International

Jessi Wolz

Head of Programmes, Coala Pay

John Bevington

Director, JBA Global Resilience

John Brogan

Senior Advisor, WASH Systems Strengthening, HELVETAS

John Ede

Chief Executive Officer & President, Ohaha Family Foundation

Juan Luis Coderque Galligo

Senior Advisor on Innovative Finance, ICRC and HIFHUB

Julie Blümmel-Gascoin

Associate Director, Innovative Finance, Save The Children Ventures

Juliet Parker

Director, ALNAP

Karina Whalley

Head of Public Sector, AXA Climate

Kate Maina-Vorley

CEO, Elrha

Keith Cole

Leader, Humanitarian and Multilateral, SATO, part of LIXIL

Kelly Joseph

Founder & Fund Facilitator, La Soeur Fund

Kimberly Crunkleton

Lead on HIV in Crisis, Frontline AIDS

Kulmiye Hussein

Executive Director, Somali Lifeline Organization (SOLO)

Lucia Santirso Richards

Executive Director, Bridges Outcomes Partnerships

Maike Striffler

Co-Founder & Purpose Pool Lead, Relevant Ventures Uganda

Marcela Gonzalez

Program Officer, Refugees, Conrad N. Hilton Foundation

Marianna Nigra

Head of the Innovation Lab, WFP–UNHRD

Marie Houel

Group Coordinator, The Inter-Agency Procurement Group (IAPG)

Marie Wagner

Anticipatory Humanitarian Action Advisor, WHH Anticipatory Humanitarian Action Facility

Marta Valdés García

Humanitarian Director, Oxfam International

Martin Gallard

Partnerships and Localization Advisor, Terre des hommes

Matthias Amling

Deputy Humanitarian Director, Welthungerhilfe (WHH)

Matthias Schmale

Assistant Secretary-General and Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Ukraine, United Nations

Maysa Jalbout

Director, Education Cannot Wait

Michael Mosselmans

Head of Humanitarian Division, Christian Aid

Michel Botzung

Head of IFC-UNHCR Joint Initiative, International Finance Corporation

Mirko Zappacosta

Country Director, Ethiopia, Premi're Urgence Internationale

Mohammed Kroessin

Head of the Global Islamic Microfinance Business Unit, Islamic Relief Worldwide

Monica Ramos

Global WASH Cluster Coordinator, UNICEF

Mousumi Saikia

Partnerships and Programme Development Manager, Islamic Relief Worldwide

Muniruddeen Lallmahomood

Islamic Finance Portfolio Lead, UNDP

Mvuselelo Huni

Executive Director, Organisation of Rural Associations for Progress (ORAP) Zimbabwe

Nadia Badran

Executive Director, SIDC Lebanon

Nathalie Praz

Head of Humanitarian Aid, HEKS/EPER

Nawaf Al Hammadi

Deputy CEO for Programmes and Communications, Qatar Charity

Nicholas Leader

Team Leader Humanitarian Research & Innovation, Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO)

Nicholas Rutherford

Managing Director, AidEx & Development2030

Nwe Zin Win

Executive Director and Founding Member, Pyi Gyi Khin (PGK)

Ota Akhigbe

Director, Partnership & Programs, eHealth Africa

Pablo Amor Fernandez

Public Health Data Specialist, Consultant to the World Bank and UNICEF

Patrick Egli

Deputy Head Humanitarian Aid Division and Chief of Staff Humanitarian Aid Division, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)

Patrick Oger

QSE Group chair, IOM/ICRC

Rasha Al Askar

Health Coordinator, PUI Lebanon

Regine Kopplow

Senior Global Technical Advisor - Livelihoods, Concern Worldwide

Richard Kojan

Former President, ALIMA

Riing Garwech

National Director, Child's Destiny & Development Organisation (CHIDDO)

Rob van Hout

Senior Advisor, Private Sector Development, HELVETAS

Roshni Sumitra

Humanitarian and Climate Programmes Officer, World Jewish Relief

Sacha Gayama

Global Lead for Innovative Financing, Danish Refugee Council

Samuel Williams

Director and Head of the Resilient Futures Fund, Christian Aid

Sanda Kyaw Win

Director, Swe Tha Har Organization Myanmar and Chair, LIA

Sara Lisa Ørstavik

Senior Advisor - Humanitarian Innovation and Impact Finance, NORAD

Sarah Estermann

Senior Advisor and Knowledge Manager Migration, Caritas Switzerland

Saralyn Wairimu

Associate Director & Head of Social Protection, Equity Group Foundation

Sean Rafter

Managing Director, Kühne Foundation

Siddhartha Sinha

Head of Innovative Finance Unit, UNHCR

Simon Amsale Tsehaye

Global Finance Advisor, Norwegian Refugee Council

Simon Meldrum

Innovative Finance, Private Sector & Innovation Unit, IFRC, and Executive Director, Humanitarian Finance Forum

Solomon Thomas

Chief, Innovative & Alternative Finance for Children, UNICEF

Sophia Swire

Founder, GEDI VC

Stefano Guagliardo

Innovation Lab Officer, WFP-UNHRD

Tanjir Hossain

Team Lead International Humanitarian Action and Resilience Team & Head of ARISE Fund, ActionAid International

Tetiana Deshko

Director of International Programs, APH Ukraine

Teuta Turani

Head of the International Finance Facility for Immunisation (IFFIm), GAVI

Thomas Husson

Head of Investing in Fragile Contexts, Proparco

Thomas Russell‏

Adviser: High Level Panel on Social Protection in Fragile and Conflict Affected Settings, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Tjada D'Oyen McKenna

Chief Executive Officer, Mercy Corp (Prosper Global)

Valeria Raggi

Senior Consultant - Fragile and Conflict Affected Settings practice, ITAD

Vanina Farber

elea Professor for Social Innovation and Dean of the EMBA Programme, Institute for Management Development (IMD)

Wael Darwish

Regional Director Middle East Programme, Caritas Switzerland

Wahid Majrooh

Former Minister of Public Health of Afghanistan

Wendy Pierre

Head of Emergency Unit, Operational Development and Private Partnerships, Première Urgence Internationale

Winnie Auma

Chief Operating Officer, Village Enterprise

Yembuani Yves Ouoba

Executive Director, Association Tintua, Burkina Faso

Zeina Mohanna

Member Board of Directors, AMEL Lebanon

Zeinab Hijazi

Global Lead Mental Health, UNICEF