Dr. Alaa Murabit is a medical doctor, a global security strategist, women’s rights advocate, and United Nations High-Level Commissioner on Health Employment and Economic Growth. She is one of 17 Sustainable Development Goal Advocates appointed by the UN Secretary-General and a 2020–2021 Fellow at Harvard University's Radcliffe Institute. In 2011, when she was 21 years old, Alaa founded the women’s rights organization Voice of Libyan Women. Her TED Talk, “What My Religion Really Says About Women,” has been viewed nearly 5 million times. Alaa is the recipient of more than 100 honors and awards, including the Canadian Meritorious Service Cross, BBC 100 Women, Forbes 30 Under 30, Nelson Mandela Changemaker Award, and Harvard Law School’s Women Inspiring Change. She is an MIT Media Lab Director’s Fellow and an Ashoka Fellow, and she serves on the board of the Malala Fund.

Tamara Dancheva has worked for over a decade in various roles in global organizations, with a primary focus on gender equality, human rights and international relations. In her current role as International Relations Manager within the External Affairs and Industry Purpose department at the GSMA, Tamara is responsible for coordinating GSMA's strategy across various gender initiatives in the digital space. Tamara also leads on GSMA’s partnerships with UN Women, the EQUALS global partnership for digital gender equality in the digital age and the Commonwealth Businesswomen's Network among others. Tamara is currently also a member of the European Union Delegation to the W20 Engagement Group of G20 and a member of the B20 Special Initiative on Women Empowerment Taskforce. Tamara holds a Bachelor's Degree in International Business from Rockhurst University (Kansas City, MO, USA) and a Master's Degree in Politics and Government in the European Union from the London School of Economics (London, UK).

Andrea is an author, journalist and academic. She received her B.A., M.A. and D.Phil. in English literature from Oxford University and held Fellowships at the universities of Yale and Princeton. Her writing has been featured in many publications, including The Times, The Observer, The Independent, The Guardian, The Times Literary Supplement, Elle, Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar and Granta. Andrea is the author of the award-winning and internationally bestselling memoir Once in a House on Fire, which has been translated into more than 10 languages and is used in the curricula of schools and universities around the world. In addition to being a spokesperson for the importance of girls’ literacy and education and women’s empowerment, Andrea is a co-founder of W4 and W4’s US President and Editor-in-Chief.