Susan Davis is a thought leader in international development and civil society innovation. She is a founder and current President & CEO of BRAC USA, a newly created organization to support BRAC, a pioneering development organization from Bangladesh, introduces its innovative development approach to improving the health, wealth and well-being of the poorest women and their families in Africa and other countries in Asia.

Susan is a senior advisor to New York University's Reynolds Program for Social Entrepreneurship since its inception. Susan led Ashoka's Global Academy for Social Entrepreneurship and serves on its international board committee that selects Ashoka Fellows. She also oversaw Ashoka's expansion to the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia and served as a Senior Advisor to the Director General of the International Labor Organization. She was the Executive Director of Women's Environment & Development Organization, a global women’s advocacy organization that pioneered new mechanisms for the global women’s movement to influence negotiations at global United Nations meetings from 1993-1998.

Frederick M. Hess, American Enterpirse Institute's director of education policy studies, is an educator, political scientist, and author. At AEI, Mr. Hess studies a range of K-12 and higher education issues. He has authored influential books such as Common Sense School Reform, Revolution at the Margins, and Spinning Wheels. A former public high school social studies teacher, he has also taught education and policy at universities including Georgetown, Harvard, Rice, the University of Virginia, and the University of Pennsylvania. He is executive editor of Education Next and a faculty associate with Harvard's Program on Education Policy and Governance, and he serves on the board of directors for the National Association of Charter School Authorizers and on the review board for the Broad Prize in Urban Education.

Dan Moore is the President of the Southwestern Company in Nashville, Tennessee. He is a 1976 Honors Graduate from Harvard University and holds an Honors MBA from Vanderbilt University. As President of the Southwestern Co., he is responsible for product development, sales training, public relations, business statistics, forecasting and the development of new profit centers.

Clint Smith is the co-founder of Emma, the Web-based email marketing and communications service (www.myemma.com). Launched in 2002, Emma powers the email newsletters and campaigns of more than 20,000 organizations around the world, providing small businesses, non-profits and agencies with simple yet sophisticated tools to create stylish email campaigns and surveys, send with confidence, and track the response in real time.