Kaakpema Yelpaala is the Founder of Network for the Improvement of World Health. He specializes in a broad range of matters related to health and development, including both program implementation and scholarly research. He has worked for the Clinton Foundation in various capacities, including for the Clinton Foundation HIV/AIDS Initiative (CHAI) and the Clinton-Hunter Development Initiative (CHDI). For CHAI, his work focused on scaling up access to Antiretroviral Therapy (and broader HIV prevention, care and support initiatives) in collaboration with the public sector and other stakeholders in Tanzania and the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States, both regionally and at the country-level. He also held a regional role based out of Nairobi where he did work in Kenya and Ethiopia. Kaakpema worked for CHDI in Rwanda on rural development and agriculture, including models for increasing agricultural financing options for cooperatives and farmers.

In Tanzania, Kaakpema was a member of the consultative group that drafted Tanzania’s first National Communications Strategy for HIV/AIDS and was the primary author for the care and treatment chapter the strategy. He has published an article and book chapter on research he conducted in Ghana in 2003 on mining, development, and public health and a working paper on the ICT in the health sector in Africa in 2005. Kaakpema received a Master of Public Health degree from the Yale School of Epidemiology and Public Health, and holds a BA in an independent major from Brown University entitled "Public Health and Development in an International Perspective." He is the recipient of the 2007 Yale Alumni in Public Health New Professionals Award and the 2006 Jesuit High School Man for Others Alumni Award for his work in global health and development.

Dr. Stephon Alexander is an Associate Professor at Pennsylvania State University in the Department of Physics and the Department of Astrophysics. He is also the Director of the Caribbean Institute for Advanced Studies (CARIAS). A native of Trinidad and Tobago, he graduated from Brown University in 2000 with a Ph.D. in physics. Dr. Alexander specializes in theoretical cosmology and superstring theory. He completed two postdoctoral qualifications at Imperial College, London, and Stanford's Linear Accelerator Center and Institute for Theoretical Physics. His research activities focus on the interface between early universe cosmology and the quantum theory of gravity.

Dr. Alexander was named one of eight 2006 National Geographic Emerging Explorers. The Emerging Explorers program recognizes and supports uniquely gifted and inspiring people around the globe who are making a significant contribution to world knowledge through exploration while still early in their careers. In 2005, he was interviewed along with colleagues at Stanford as a part of a PBS television series on Albert Einstein. In his spare time, Dr. Alexander plays the tenor saxophone.

Dr. John Anarfi is a professor at the Institute of Statistical, Social, and Economic Research (ISSER) at the University of Ghana, Legon. He is a demographer, and an expert on HIV/AIDS and population studies in West Africa. He has previously done work on female migration and prostitution for the German Technical Cooperation; female itinerant traders and the risk of HIV infection for Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency; and the causes of international migration for the European Commission. He has published widely, including 23 articles.

Victor Barnes serves as the Director for the Corporate Council on Africa (CCA) HIV/AIDS Initiative. Previously, Mr. Barnes worked for the National Center for HIV, STD and TB Prevention, a part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in Atlanta, Georgia. He served as the Deputy Director of The Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention and most recently as the Associate Director for External Relations in the Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention. While at CDC, he directed the Business and Labor Response to AIDS Partnership, a public-private partnership initiated in 1992 to engage the U.S. private sector in HIV/AIDS prevention in the U.S. and abroad.

Mr. Barnes has a long career in HIV/AIDS and related healthcare issues. This includes several years at the US Agency for International Development (USAID) where he served in several capacities, eventually joining the Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention and serving as Acting Chief of the Division. In this position, Mr. Barnes oversaw funding and technical assistance for 35 countries to develop and implement HIV/AIDS prevention programs. During his time with USAID, he spent several years working in sub-Saharan Africa, as well as at headquarters.

Mr. Barnes holds a BA degree in French, an MA in African Area Studies and a PhD in International Development Education. He speaks both French and Swahili.

Dr. Barrett Hazeltine is Professor Emeritus of Engineering at Brown University. His teaching and research interests are in engineering management, technology planning, and appropriate technology, with an emphasis on low-income countries. He has both taught and served as a consultant for development and technology initiatives in numerous countries in sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia, including Bangladesh, Botswana, Indonesia, Malawi, Nigeria, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and South Africa. He has written papers on digital logic, technology transfer, and engineering education, a textbook on electronic circuit design and a textbook on small-scale technologies. A field guide to appropriate technology is now in press.

Mr. David J. Menkhaus is a partner of the firm Moore & Menkhaus, P.A., and works primarily in the areas of health care, representation of closely held businesses, real estate financing and commercial lending. He has had extensive involvement in the development of physician group practices and virtually all types of health care related businesses. In addition to practicing law, Mr. Menkhaus is the owner of Surgical Solutions, Inc., which develops and manages surgery centers, and a managing member of Comprehensive Home Care, which provides a complete array of home health services to seniors. Mr. Menkhaus is also a managing member of Circle F Dude Ranch Camp, LLC, which operates a children's summer camp and group weekend programs on 500 acres in Lake Wales, Florida.

Mr. Menkhaus is the author of an article published by the Harvard Journal on Legislation relating to the public trial rights of the accused, the press, and the public. He is a member of the American Health Lawyers Association, and a graduate of Harvard Law School.