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Chelsea Clinton is vice chair of the Clinton Foundation, working with her parents, former president Bill Clinton and former secretary of state Hillary Rodham Clinton, to build partnerships across governments, NGOs, business, and individuals to further the vision and work of the Clinton Foundation. Chelsea Clinton’s focus is on health programs, including the Clinton Health Care Access Initiative, the Alliance for a Healthier Generation, and the Clinton Health Matters Initiative, as well as empowering young people through the Clinton Global Initiative University and the Clinton Foundation Millennium Network. Apart from the foundation, Clinton is a special correspondent for NBC News. She has also worked at McKinsey & Company and Avenue Capital. Clinton earned a B.A. from Stanford University, M.Phil. from Oxford University, and M.P.H. from Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health; she is currently pursuing a doctorate at Oxford.

John J. DeGioia is the forty-eighth president of Georgetown University. For nearly four decades, DeGioia has worked to define and strengthen Georgetown University as a premier institution for education and research. As the first lay president of a Jesuit university he places emphasis on sustaining and strengthening Georgetown’s Catholic and Jesuit identity and its responsibility to serve as a voice and an instrument for justice. He has also been an advocate for interreligious dialogue. He continues to teach an Ignatius Seminar each fall, part of a program offering first year students the opportunity to encounter unique courses of study inspired by the Jesuit educational theme of cura personalis (“care for the whole person”). He is a member of the Order of Malta, a lay religious order of the Roman Catholic Church dedicated to serving the sick and the poor. Before becoming president, DeGioia served at Georgetown as senior vice president, responsible for university-wide operations, and dean of student affairs. DeGioia earned his B.A. and Ph.D at Georgetown University.

Diana Farrell is co-founder of the McKinsey Center for Government, a center within McKinsey & Company’s public sector practice dedicated to supporting government leaders striving to succeed with limited resources. Before returning to McKinsey in 2011, Farrell spent two years as deputy director of the National Economic Council and as deputy assistant on economic policy to President Barack Obama, where she directed interagency collaboration on a variety of economic initiatives, including the passage of the Dodd-Frank Act and work as a member of the president’s Auto Task Force. Before joining the Obama administration, Farrell led the McKinsey Global Institute, an economic research platform, and held leadership positions in financial services and strategy practices. Farrell is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Bretton Woods Committee, and the Pacific Council on International Policy. She holds a B.A. from Wesleyan University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

Michael J. Gerson is a nationally syndicated columnist who appears twice weekly in the Washington Post. He is also a policy fellow at ONE, a bipartisan organization fighting against extreme poverty and preventable diseases, and a visiting fellow with the Center for Public Justice. From 2001 to 2006, he served as a speechwriter and advisor to President George W. Bush.

Reverend Jim Wallis is a bestselling author, public theologian, and commentator on religion and public life, faith, and politics who serves as the inaugural Archbishop Desmond Tutu Chair in Faith and Justice and leader of the Center on Faith and Justice in the Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy; he has been a research fellow at the Berkley Center since 2010. Wallis is the founder and ambassador of Sojourners, a progressive Christian grassroots movement that advocates spirituality and social change in America. His publications include Christ in Crisis: Why We Need to Reclaim Jesus (2019); America's Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America (2016); The (Un)Common Good: How the Gospel Brings Hope to a World Divided (2014); On God's Side: What Religion Forgets and Politics Hasn't Learned about Serving the Common Good (2013); and Rediscovering Values: On Wall Street, Main Street, and Your Street — A Moral Compass for the New Economy (2010).

Stewart Wallis has been executive director of the New Economics Foundation since 2003. He served at Oxfam from 1992 to 2003 and was awarded the Order of the British Empire for his work. Wallis has held business positions with Rio Tinto Zinc and Robinson Packaging, where he spent five years as managing director; he also spent seven years at the World Bank addressing industrial and financial development in East Asia. Wallis holds an undergraduate degree from Cambridge University and a master's degree in Business and Economics from the London Business School.