Lois Juliber, Chair of The MasterCard Foundation, is retired Vice-Chair and Chief Operating Officer of Colgate-Palmolive Company; a Director of Goldman Sachs, DuPont and Kraft; and a member of the boards of Wellesley College, and Friends of Women's World Banking.

Phillip Clay is the Professor of City Planning at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His specialization is housing and community and economic development. He is also the former Chair of MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning and currently chairs the board of the Community Builders, the nation's largest developer of nonprofit housing.

Jim Leech is the President and CEO of Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, where he oversees the fund management and administration of pensions for 295,000 plan members in Ontario, Canada. Mr. Leech serves on the board of Toronto General and Western Hospital Foundation and was a founding director of Right to Play International. He also chairs the Advisory Board of the Queen's School of Business.

President Festus G. Mogae led the Republic of Botswana from 1998 to 2008. He is the Special Envoy of the United Nations Secretary-General on Climate Change. President Mogae previously was the Alternate Governor for Botswana at The International Monetary Fund, The World Bank and The African Development Bank. He is a recipient of the Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership and a Trustee of the Rhodes Trust.

Don Morrison is the former Chief Operating Officer of Research In Motion. Prior to joining RIM, Don held a number of senior leadership positions in the international telecom sector. The Co-founder of the Debbie and Donald H. Morrison Family Foundation, Don is a committed philanthropist and member of the Dalai Lama Center for Ethics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the Advisory Board of the Mind and Life Institute and the Board of the new Mind and Life Institute in Canada. 

Hutham Olayan is a senior executive and Director of The Olayan Group, a private, multinational organization that is both a diversified global investor and an operator of commercial and industrial businesses in Saudi Arabia and the Middle East. She is also President and CEO of Olayan America, the group’s investment arm for the Western Hemisphere. Ms. Olayan serves on the boards of a number of not-for-profit organizations, including the American University of Beirut, Georgetown University, Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics, and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.

Paul Ostergard is the retired Head of the Citigroup Foundation, where he oversaw the Foundation's global program in microfinance. He has also served as the Head of the GE Foundation, the Committee to Encourage Corporate Philanthropy, Junior Achievement International, and the Hispanic Scholarship Fund. 

Marguerite Robinson is a former professor, author, independent consultant, and frequent speaker on microfinance and other development issues. She authored The Microfinance Revolution, Volumes 1 and 2; two additional volumes are in progress. She is also an Institute Fellow Emeritus of the Harvard Institute for International Development.