Jack Sim

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Founder of World Toilet Organization (WTO), has been a successful businessman since age 24. Having achieved financial success in his 40s, Jack felt the need to change his direction in life and give back to humanity – he wanted to live his life according to the motto “Live a useful life”. Jack soon left his business and embarked on a journey that saw him being the voice for those who cannot speak out and fighting for the dignity, rights and health for the vulnerable and poor worldwide.

As a result, in 2001, Jack founded the World Toilet Organization (WTO) and four years later, the World Toilet College (WTC) in 2005. In 2004, Jack was awarded the Singapore Green Plan Award 2012 by Singapore’s National Environment Agency (NEA) for his contribution to Environment. In 2006, Jack was invited to launch The German Toilet Organisation in Berlin. He is also a founding member of American Restroom Association.

In 2007, Jack became one of the key members to convene the Sustainable Sanitation Alliance (SuSanA) comprised of over 130 organisations active in the sanitation sector. Jack is also an Ashoka Global Fellow and in 2008 was named Hero of the Environment by Time Magazine. Jack also sits in the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Councils (GAC) for Water Security and also the GAC for Social Entrepreneurship.

He graduated with a Masters in Public Administration from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in 2013. He was shortlisted for the Sarphati Sanitation Award in November 2013.

Dr. Martin Burt

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Dr. Martin Burt is founder (1985) and CEO of Fundacion Paraguaya, an organization dedicated to the elimination of poverty.

As a pioneer in applying microfinance, microfranchise, youth entrepreneurship, financial literacy and technical vocational methodologies, he has also developed the Poverty Stoplight. This new metric is now being implemented in more than 20 countries, including the US and the UK.

He holds a PhD from Tulane University and teaches at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute in the United States and at the American University in Nigeria.

Dr. Burt is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship at the World Economic Forum and of the Global Foodbanking Network. In public service, he has served as Chief of Staff to the President of Paraguay, was elected Mayor of Asuncion, and was appointed Vice Minister of Commerce. He has books published and has received numerous awards.

Dr. Martin Burt was born in Asuncion, Paraguay, in 1957 where he resides with his family.

Diego Zavaleta

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Diego Zavaleta is a Research Officer with the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) at the University of Oxford.

He is involved in research pertaining to aspects of shame, humiliation and isolation as missing dimensions of poverty data.

His doctoral research focused on economic relations that prevent major ethnic conflict in Bolivia, as part of a global project within the Centre for Research on Inequality, Human Security and Ethnicity (CRISE) at the University of Oxford. He has D.Phil in Development Studies and a M.Sc. in Public Policy from the University of Oxford, an MBA from the University of Birmingham and a B.S. in Economics from Arizona State University.

He has worked for a variety of international organisations, including the World Bank and the United Nations Development Programme, as well as for the Bolivian government. Before joining Oxford, he was the Secretary for the National Dialogue of the Ministry of the Presidency.

He is a Bolivian national.

Michael Walton

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Senior Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, Senior Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Policy Research, Delhi. He was VKRV Rao Chair Professor, Institute of Social and Economic Change, Bangalore for 2008 and 2009.

From 1980-2004, he worked at the World Bank, including extended periods on Indonesia and Zimbabwe, adviser to two Chief Economists, Regional Chief Economist for East Asia and the Pacific (1995-97), Director for Poverty Reduction (1997-2000), Chief Economist for Human Development (1999-2000) and Adviser for Poverty and Human Development in Latin America and the Caribbean (2000-2004). He was part of the management group for World Development Report 2000/2001: Attacking Poverty, and played a central role in the design of the poverty reduction strategy process for low income countries. Prior to joining the World Bank, he worked for the Central Planning and Development Office for the Government of Lesotho, 1997-99.

He has been teaching at the Kennedy School since 2004, primarily in the MPA in International Development, and also in Executive Education on social enterprise. Since 2014 he has also worked with IMAGO Global Grassroots, a non-profit whose mission is to support grassroots organizations scale up, primarily with clients in India and Latin America, focusing on strategy, business plans, systems and impact assessment.

Major publications include: co-author of the World Bank's World Development Report 1990 on poverty; director of World Development Report 1995 on labor; co-editor of Culture and Public Action (Stanford University Press, 2004); co-author of Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean: Breaking with History? (World Bank, 2004); co-director of World Development Report 2005/06 on Equity and Development; and co-editor of No Growth without Equity? Inequality, Interests and Competition in Mexico. (Palgrave Macmillan and the World Bank, 2009).

Michael Walton

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She is an economist that has worked in development all her professional life. She started as a macroeconomist, designing policy reforms from the World Bank adjustment operations in Philippines, Morocco and the Former Soviet Union; she also wrote the World Bank’s first Poverty Report on the Philippines.

Isabel was a manager in the Economic Development Institute, training government officials, parliamentarians and journalists on macroeconomics, decentralization and trade. Between 1997 and 2008, Isabel was a Country Director for Bolivia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Colombia, Mexico and India. In that capacity she designed the World Bank Country Strategy for each of these countries, covering a wide range of sectors, including infrastructure, social development, environment, private sector development, rural development and livelihood programs, the financial sector, macroeconomics and trade policy.

In 2013, she retired from the WB after five years as Vice-President for the South Asia region where she managed a US$39 billion dollar portfolio, a US$150 million administrative budget and US$6 billion in Trust Funds.

Isabel studied economics at Catholic University in Peru and at the London School of Economics. She studied psychoanalysis at the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute and the Peruvian Society for Psychoanalysis. She is co-founder of the non-profit IMAGO whose goal is to support grassroots organizations on scaling up.

Yves Moury

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Yves Moury is the Founder, President and CEO of Fundación Capital.

For his work with Fundación Capital, has been honored as a Schwab Foundation Social

Entrepreneur of the Year 2017 Awardee, in recognition of his outstanding entrepreneurial social activities that massively benefit vulnerable populations, worldwide.

In 2017 he was also named an Ashoka Senior Fellow, and prior to that received the 2014 Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship in 2014 (global recognition for his work in education and economic opportunities).

Prior to Fundación Capital, Yves was the Director of a regulated rural bank in Peru, serving low-income clients, and has an been advisor to many development organizations, the UN, governments, private and public investors, and others.

He is an Economist and Management Engineer from the Louvain School of Management, and has dedicated his career to poverty reduction, worldwide. He is member of the Leadership Council of the Microcredit Summit Campaign and on the Interim Executive Committee of the Partnership for Economic Inclusion, housed at the World Bank

J. Kevin White

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In 2004-2006 Kevin served as the Director of Humanitarian and Civic Assistance for the U.S. European Command. His primary responsibility was planning military humanitarian outreach efforts conducted during routine training deployments to Africa and Easern Europe. Soon after arriving in Stuttgart, he traveled to Morocco to observe one of the Missions he helped plan – a U.S. Air Force medical unit conducting health, dental and optical clincial outreach efforts in rural Morocco. As a lifelong wearer of eyeglasses, the optical outreach was particularly interesting.

Typical of early vision outreach efforts, the USAF mission used donated eyeglasses to correct refractive error in the local population. As a professional logistician he was offended by the inefficiencies of the system – the recipients did not get 20/20 in both eyes, and often would chose the fashionable pair of eyeglasses over the pair that gave them the best correction. He thought there had to be something better.

So began his efforts to solve this problem.

Kevin is the inventor of the USee System™, and the Executive Director of Global Vision 2020, a charity formed to address the global need for prescription eyeglasses. There are an estimated 2.5 billion people in the developing world that need, but currently have no access to eyeglasses. The system Kevin invented allows anyone, anywhere, to deliver eyeglasses to everyone, everywhere.

Poor vision effects every aspect of ones life if left untreated. It is extremely difficult to lead an healthy and productive life if one cannot see. Kevin, and the team at Global Vision 2020 are dedicated to solving this gap.

Ma. Soledad Núñez

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Actual Minister of the National Secretary of Housing and Habitat of Paraguay. With 31 years, she is the youngest Minister of the Cabinet of the Government.

She served as Coordinator of the Poverty Reduction Plan in urban and rural areas leading the strategy of territorial targeting by the National Government from the Technical Secretariat of Planning for Economic and Social Development.

Former National Director of NGO TECHO in Paraguay, with intervention in more than 150 human settlements and promoting the active participation of thousands of young people in the country's social policy.

She began her professional career in the private sector executing social works in rural areas. Former Member of the Advisory Board of several Non-Governmental Organizations such as Sumando, CIRD (Center of Information and Resources for Development) and TECHO.

She was a member of the first Country Strategy National Team, a space promoted by the President of the Republic to install social dialogue as a tool for overcoming poverty in the country.

Member of the Asunción Hub of Global Shapers, initiative of the World Economic Forum. She has more than 8 years of experience working in urban and rural settlements from community work.

She is a Civil Engineer from the National University of Asunción with postgraduate studies in Management and Project Management from the Polytechnic University of Madrid and graduated from the Leadership for Global Competitiveness course at Georgetown University, United States. She also devoted herself to teaching as assistant professor for 6 years at the Faculty of Engineering of the National University of Asunción.