Announcing the 2026 Skoll World Forum Featured Speakers
March 18, 2026
The Skoll Foundation is thrilled to welcome a fantastic lineup of speakers for the 2026 Skoll World Forum from April 21–24. These leaders and visionaries from around the globe will share their ideas and insights about how we can collaborate to advance solutions to the urgent challenges we face. In a moment defined by the social sector’s resilience, this year’s Forum will bring us together to reimagine a future that enables people and planet to thrive.
We invite you to join us online for the Forum’s free virtual experience , which is open to the public and includes livestreams and replays of plenaries and select sessions.
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Plenary speakers include:
Juan Manuel Santos, Chair, The Elders; Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
Ilwad Elman, Chief Operating Officer, Elman Peace and Human Rights Centre
Noubar Afeyan, Founder & CEO, Flagship Pioneering
Trevor Noah, Founder, Trevor Noah Foundation
Francis Collins, Former Director, National Institutes of Health
Dele Olojede, Founder, Africa In the World
Alessandra Orofino, Founder & Executive Director, Peri Productions
Kate Kallot, Founder & CEO, Amini
Ana Lucia Ixchiu Hernández, Storytelling & Impact, If Not Us Then Who
Kynan Tegar, Indigenous Storyteller
Kiran Gandhi, Musician & Activist
Marla Blow, CEO & President, Skoll Foundation
Emcees:
Cheryl Dorsey, CEO, Echoing Green
Celina de Sola, Co-founder & President, Glasswing International
Performers:
Ricky Kej, 3x Grammy Award Winner and United Nations Goodwill Ambassador
Pub Choir with Astrid Jorgensen
Session speakers include:
Aldo Soto, Co-founder & Managing Director, Amazonia Impact Ventures
Alesha Miller, Chief Strategy Officer, Digital Green
Alloysius Attah, CEO & Co-founder, Farmerline
Angeline Murimirwa, CEO, CAMFED
Arief Rabik, Executive Director, Bamboo Village Trust
Ari Johnson, CEO, Muso
Benard Otieno, Advisory Board Member, Community Health Impact Coalition (CHIC)
Bruce Au, Secretary-General, Yidan Prize Foundation
Cecilia Conrad, CEO, Lever for Change
Dimple Abichandani, Advisor & Author, New Era Strategies LLC
Dima Saber, Executive Director, Meedan
Doug Galen, Co-Founder & CEO, Rippleworks
Elizabeth Mpofu, Founder, African Women’s Collaborative for Healthy Food Systems
Emily Jacobi, Co-founder & Executive Director, Awana Digital
Fabíola Zerbini, Executive Director, Conexsus
Gabriela Rocha, Co-founder & CEO, Laboratoria
Gayatri Nair Lobo, CEO, Educate Girls
Gita Syahrani, Founder & Executive Director, BLESS Indonesia
Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka, CEO, Conservation Through Public Health
Graciela Selaimen, Executive Director, Instituto Toriba
Heather Gerken, President, Ford Foundation
Huda Jaffer, Director, SELCO Foundation
James Nardella, President & Chief Program Officer, Last Mile Health
Janah Ncube, Deputy CEO, Crisis Action
Jasmine Anouna, Founder & CEO, The Bloom
Jim Fruchterman, Founder & CEO, Tech Matters
John Mundy, Director of Global Partnerships, Climate Finance and Technology, One Acre Fund
Juliana Uribe, CEO & Founder, Movilizatorio
Karina Rios Michel, Chief Creative & Technology Officer, Girl Effect
Kasmita Widodo, Head, BRWA Foundation
Ketakandriana Rafitoson, Executive Director, Resource Justice Network
Kevin L. Brown, Founding Partner & CEO, MIGHTY ALLY
Kieron Boyle, CEO, 100x Impact
Laura Oller, CEO, VélezReyes+
Lisa Jordan, Senior Managing Director & Europe Director, Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation
Louise Marra, Senior Associate, Collective Change Lab
Lucien Chan, Managing Director, Portfolio Impact, The Audacious Project
Luiz Cláudio Lopes da Silva, Regional Executive Director, Amazon Conservation Team
Madeleine Ballard, Founder & CEO, Community Health Impact Coalition (CHIC)
Michelle Plascencia Esparza, Partnerships & Programs, Global Impact Producers Alliance
Miriam Ayoo, Head of Strategy & Development, Global Impact Producers Alliance
Mohamed Osman, CEO, Spring Impact
Monica Lopez, Privacy Officer, VHC Health; Co-founder & CEO, Cognitive Insights for Artificial Intelligence
Naomi Walker, Co-Coordinator, Community & Communications, Global Impact Producers Alliance
Nayana Chowdhury, CEO, Breakthrough
Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli, President & CEO, ONE Campaign
Nicola Galombik, Executive Director, Yellowwoods Holdings
Nidhi Sahni, Partner & Head of US Advisory, The Bridgespan Group
Oluwatoni Akinola, AMR Program Manager, Dr. Ameyo Stella Adadevoh (DRASA) Health Trust
Patipat Susumpao, Managing Director, Opendream
Piyush Tewari, Founder & CEO, SaveLIFE Foundation
Raj Kumar, President & Editor-in-Chief, Devex
Rebecca Firth, Executive Director, Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)
Reema Nanavaty, Director, Economic & Rural Development, Self Employed Women’s Association
Sandra Ortiz Diaz, Ecosystem Integrator, Opportunity Collaboration
Shabana Basij-Rasikh, Co-founder & President, School of Leadership Afghanistan (SOLA)
Shannon Farley, Co-founder & Executive Director, Fast Forward
Shauna Carey, Skoll Foundation
Sizwile Sibindi, Co-CEO, Financing Alliance for Health
Solange Bandiaky-Badji, President & Coordinator, Rights and Resources Initiative
Sophie Owens, Senior Director, Strategic Philanthropy, Fast Forward
Tatyana Margolin, Co-founder, STROIKA
Thin Lei Win, Lead Reporter, Food Systems Newsroom, Lighthouse Reports
Toby Herzlich, Founder & Director, Biomimicry for Social Innovation
Tom Osborn, Founder & CEO, Shamiri
Topher Wilkins, CEO, Opportunity Collaboration and Connective Impact
Tsitsi Masiyiwa, Co-founder & Chair, Delta Philanthropies and Higherlife Foundation
Tulaine Montgomery, CEO, New Profit
Vivek Maru, CEO, Namati
Wawira Njiru, Founder & CEO, Food4Education
Yelena Litvinov, Co-founder, STROIKA
Zia Akhter Abbas, President & CEO, The Citizens Foundation
