Ruth L. Okediji is the Jeremiah Smith. Jr, Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and Co-Director of the Berkman Klein Center. A renowned scholar in international intellectual property (IP) law and a foremost authority on the role of intellectual property in social and economic development, Professor Okediji has advised inter-governmental organizations, regional economic communities, and national governments on a range of matters related to technology, innovation policy, and development.…
Tobi Olatunji is a physician turned Machine Learning Scientist focused on Clinical Natural Language Processing (NLP). He founded Intron, Africa’s first speech-powered medical record, accelerating the transition to digitized care for clinicians of all typing speeds. Intron provides technology infrastructure and financing that eliminates technology adoption barriers. Over the past decade, he has worked as a Clinical NLP Scientist at Health AI, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon, the world’s largest…
Muhammad Ali Pate is Co-Chair of the Future of Health & Economic Resilience in Africa initiative and Julio Frenk Professor of the Practice of Public Health Leadership, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Previously, he was the Global Director of Health, Nutrition and Population (HNP) Global Practice of the World Bank and the Director of Global Financing Facility for Women, Children and Adolescents (GFF), based in Washington DC. Dr.…
Dr. Marwa Ramadan is a highly experienced public health professional with over 10 years of experience in the field of health systems research, humanitarian health, and healthcare quality management. She is a physician by training and holds PhD degree in International Health at Johns Hopkins University. Dr.Ramadan is currently a post-doctoral researcher at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, where she is conducting epidemiological analysis of perinatal outcomes among migrants in…
Director General of the Consulting firm XDServices (Experts and Development Services) and Vice-President of Group ARCHE (Actions, Research and Concertation for Habitat and Environment). Former UN Habitat DRC, Chief Technical Adviser, Head of Country Program, managed and supervised the overall programme implementation with a team of 30 national and international staff and collaborated with relevant stakeholders to provide programme coordination and advisory and consultative services in the area of Community…
As a seasoned healthcare professional, Dr. Wamuti has worked in public, private, faith-based, research, funding, and strategy organizations, analyzing what makes the healthcare system ‘tick’ especially in in low and middle-income countries (LMICs). Over the past decade, she has worked as a partnerships and impact consultant at Gates Ventures, USA, developing research strategies and disseminating research content on LMICs demonstrating exemplary performance in global health outcomes. She has also worked…
Fenton has spent the past two decades working around the world to improve health and education systems. He founded Acasus, a rapidly growing consultancy dedicated to improving education and health outcomes in the developing world, and which has demonstrated that rapid improvement in health outcomes is possible across a range of countries in Africa, South Asia and South America. Prior to Acasus, Fenton worked with McKinsey & Company in their public sector practice…
