Parminder Jeet Singh is Senior Fellow at IT for Change. His areas of work are ICTs for Development, Internet governance, E-governance, and Digital Economy. He has been a special advisor to the UN's Internet Governance Forum (IGF) and UN Global Alliance for ICTD. He was a part of UN Working Groups on IGF improvements and on enhanced cooperation on International Internet policy issues.

He was the first elected co-coordinator of the premier global Internet governance civil society group Internet Governance Caucus. He is a founding member of Just Net Coalition and Internet Rights and Principles Coalition. He was also associated with the group that helped develop India’s draft e-commerce policy. 

General Haji Abubaker Jeje Odongo is currently the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Uganda and represents Orungo Constituency in the National Parliament. 

Prior to this appointment, he was Minister of Internal Affairs from 2016-2021. He has held other cabinet portfolios including as Minister of State for Defence and Minister of State for Environment. In his other previous capacity, he served as Army Commander between 1998-2001 and held several other positions while in military service, including representing the Army in Parliament. 

Gen. Odongo holds MA in International Studies from Nairobi University, BA (Hon) in Education from Makerere University. He underwent military training and was commissioned from Monduli Academy in 1979. 

Other courses attended include Logistics command from Monterey- USA and National Defense College- Karen, Kenya.

Sade N. Jemmott is an attorney-at-law and business development consultant, currently working as Chairperson of the National Youth Policy Coordinating Committee. She has over 10 years of experience advising entrepreneurs and micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) on various legal matters, commercial strategy and business development opportunities, including access to resources, business coaching, mentorship and the development of strategic partnerships. This also extends to supporting social protection initiatives of international agencies such as UNDP and UN Women as well as the creation of various capacity building online resources. Most recently, Sade was also appointed by

the Government of Barbados to oversee a consultative policy development and implementation process in her capacity as Chairperson of the National Youth Policy Coordinating Committee.

John Jennings is Professor of Media and Cultural Studies, University of California at Riverside. He is author, graphic novelist, curator, Harvard Fellow, New York Times Bestseller, 2018 Eisner Winner, and all-around champion of Black culture.

As Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California at Riverside (UCR), Jennings examines the visual culture of race in various media forms including film, illustrated fiction, and comics and graphic novels. He is also the director of Abrams ComicArts imprint Megascope, which publishes graphic novels focused on the experiences of people of color. His research interests include the visual culture of Hip Hop, Afrofuturism and politics, Visual Literacy, Horror, and the EthnoGothic, and Speculative Design and its applications to visual rhetoric.

Jennings is co-editor of the 2016 Eisner Award-winning collection The Blacker the Ink: Constructions of Black Identity in Comics and Sequential Art (Rutgers) and co-founder/organizer of The Schomburg Center’s Black Comic Book Festival in Harlem. He is co-founder and organizer of the MLK NorCal’s Black Comix Arts Festival in San Francisco and also SOL-CON: The Brown and Black Comix Expo at the Ohio State University.

Frederic Jenny is Emeritus Professor of Economics at ESSEC Business School in Paris, Chairman of the OECD Competition Global Forum on Competition, Senior Fellow of the GW Competition and Innovation Lab at The George Washington University.

He was previously Chairman of the OECD Competition Committee (1994-2024),  Non-Executive Director of the Office of Fair Trading in the United Kingdom (2007-2014 ), Judge on the French Supreme Court (Cour de cassation, Economic Commercial and Financial Chamber) from 2004 to August 2012, Vice Chair of the French Competition Authority (1993-2004) and President of the WTO Working Group on Trade and Competition (1994-2003)  He was visiting professor at Northwestern University Department of Economics in the United States (1978), Keio University Department of economics in Japan (1984), University of Capetown Business School in South Africa (1991), Haifa University School of Law in Israel (2012). He was Visiting Professor at University College London Law School (2005-2010), Global Professor of Antitrust in the New York University School of Law’s Hauser Global Law School ( 2014, 2017 and 2022) and Senior Fellow in the Online Global Competition and Consumer Law Masters Program, University of Melbourne (Australia) ( 2016-2018).

He holds a Ph.D in Economics from  Harvard  University (1975), a Doctorate in Economics from the University of Paris (1977) and an MBA degree from ESSEC Business School (1966)

Frederic Jenny has written extensively about trade, competition and economic development and has served as an adviser to many developing countries on competition and trade issues.

Luis Jiménez-McInnis is the European Representative of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), where he leads the Bank's engagement with European institutions, governments, and development partners.

Before joining the IDB, Mr. Jiménez-McInnis served as Director of the Department of External Relations, Partnerships, and Resource Mobilization at the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) from 2022 to 2024. From 2010 to 2016, he worked as Special Adviser to the President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), and subsequently held senior roles at IFAD as Director of the Office of Partnerships and Resource Mobilization (2016-2019) and Secretary and Director of the Office of the Secretary (2020-2022).

He holds a Bachelor's degree in Political Science and International Relations from Brown University and a Master's degree in International Affairs from Columbia University.

Janique-ka John is the Founder of the Women in Tech Caribbean Community and a Software Engineer currently working in Brussels.

Janique was born and raised in St.Vincent and the Grenadines, where she first fell in love with computers and computing. During her bachelor's degree at the University of the West Indies Cave Hill she discovered her love for programming and went on to pursue a Masters Degree in Applied Computer Science.Through projects like caricovidmap, and experimenting with a Twitter bot that tweets out Vincentian news, Janique-ka has proven that she is enthusiastic about development, but in a context of solving Caribbean problems.

David Johnson is the Founder of a mental health advocacy group called “Let’s Unpack It”, with a vision to create a safe space for young people to discuss and learn about Mental Health and Wellness, and inspire the development of National Mental Health Policy. A twenty-two year old Medical Student and Mental Health Advocate whose company has amassed some 1000+ followers since the organization’s inception, and the Executive team has grown to 9 members, drawn from 7 small island states. As an advocate, David has yielded several opportunities to promote Mental Wellness as an important facet of human development, youth empowerment and holistic health.