Asha Curran

Asha is CEO of #GivingTuesday, the global generosity movement. She was Chief Innovation Officer and Director of the Belfer Center for Innovation & Social Impact at the 92nd Street Y and still serves as co-chair of the Belfer Center. She is the recipient of the 2015 Social Capital Hero Award, named a 2016 Woman of Influence by New York Business Journals, and is a Forty over 40 Women to Watch honoree. She also serves on the board of directors of the Scout Film Festival and is a Fellow at the Digital Civil Society Lab in the Center for Philanthropy and Civil Society at Stanford University.

Alice Rhee

Alice is the Chief Global Partnerships and Communications Officer at the Skoll Foundation. A philanthropy executive, world-class storyteller, and two-time Emmy Award-winning television producer, Ms. Rhee was previously the Head of Strategic Partnerships & Place-Based Philanthropy at the American Journalism Project (AJP). Prior to her role at AJP, Alice served as the Director of Media for a private family philanthropy where she built social impact storytelling initiatives and co-founded a nonprofit news organization focused on economic inequality in San Antonio, Texas. Alice held various editorial and production roles at NBC News headquarters in New York City covering breaking news and domestic and international news. She was also Senior Producer of Digital Video at The Washington Post before transitioning to philanthropy and nonprofit storytelling. Alice received national News & Documentary Emmy Awards for her coverage of the crash of Singapore Airlines and the Middle East conflict. She is also the recipient of several national and regional awards including a National Headliners Award and the New York Newswomen's Award for her reporting in the days following 9/11. The Smithsonian Institution recognized her contributions as a professional journalist during its Korean-American Centennial Commemoration. Currently, Alice acts as an independent trustee of the Nathan Cummings Foundation. She is co-chair of the Information, Media, and Technology pillar at the Partnership for American Democracy and an advisory circle member of JustFund. She also serves on the board of a new nonprofit content accelerator for BIPOC creators, artists, and entrepreneurs being launched by Dan Lin, founder of Rideback. Alice is a graduate of Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism and McGill University in Montreal, Canada.

Vivian Schiller

Vivian is a longtime executive at the intersection of journalism, media and technology. Starting in January 2020, she will lead the Aspen Institute’s program examining the role of media and technology in society. She currently heads the Civil Foundation, an independent not-for-profit committed to the sustainability of trustworthy journalism around the world. She is also strategic advisor to Craig Newmark Philanthropies. Over the last 30 years, Vivian has held executive roles at some of the most respected media organization in the world. Those include: President and CEO of NPR; Global Chair of News at Twitter; General Manager of NYTimes.com; Chief Digital Office of NBC News; chief of the Discovery Times Channel, a joint venture of The New York Times and Discovery Communications; and head of CNN documentary and long form divisions. Documentaries and series produced under her auspices earned multiple honors, including three Peabody Awards, four Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Awards, and dozens of Emmys. Vivian is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations; and a Director of the Scott Trust, which owns The Guardian.

Lois Quam

Lois is the Chief Executive Officer of Pathfinder International. She was selected by President Obama to head his signature Global Health Initiative at the Department of State, which provided more than $8 billion dollars annually across over 80 countries. Prior to her work in the public sector, Lois was the founding CEO of a $32 billion division of the FORTUNE 50 global corporation UnitedHealth Group. She was formerly the Chief Operating Officer of The Nature Conservancy. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Commonwealth Fund and Xynteo, a privately-held Norwegian company. She is a member of the Board of Trustees for the Center for American Progress and formerly served on the Board of Editors of the British Medical Journal. A devoted Guardian reader since she studied at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, Lois read Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oxford. While at Oxford, she served as President of the Oxford University Labour Club and as an official in the Oxford Labour Party. A Norwegian American from Minnesota, she is also a graduate of Macalester College.

Cedric Brown

Cedric is an award-winning social impact leader with 20+ years of deep and varied experience in the philanthropy and NGO sectors. He has built a significant track record of working to ensure pathways to opportunities for people of color through leadership development, tech inclusion, college readiness and completion, arts and cultural representation, and voter education/civic engagement. Most recently, Cedric managed global leadership programs for the Obama Foundation, where he designed and launched two programs in direct consultation with the eponymous president. An avid traveler and ever-evolving creator, Cedric has a broad interest in transnational cultural spaces and conversations. He is the founding donor of literary prizes now offered through the Museum of the African Diaspora, Lambda Literary, and the North Carolina Writers Network. He also serves on the boards of the Atlantic Fellows for Racial Equity and the Panta Rhea Foundation, and runs a boutique consultancy, Blue Skies Advising.

Richard Addy

Richard is a Co-Founder of AKAS an international consultancy founded in 2012, delivering impact, audience, corporate, narrative and communication strategies to a wide range of purpose-led organisations predominantly in the media, philanthropy, international institution and NGO sectors. In the media space AKAS has worked with The Guardian, BBC News, BBC World Service, BBC Media Action, Channel 4 News/ITN, EUObserver, Balkan Investigative Reporters Network, Hromadske, CPJ (Committee To Protect Journalists), ICFJ (International Center For Journalists), The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Open Society Foundations, Thomson Foundation, Luminate, Adessium, Deutsche Welle Akademie, Rudolf Augstein Foundation, Wellcome, Civitates, Internews, Participant Media and Warner Bros. Prior to setting up AKAS, Richard gained 20 years’ experience working as a Strategist and a Government Economist advising CEOs, Government ministers, and organisational leaders. After being a trustee of Mind, the UK’s leading mental health charity, for 8 years, Richard was appointed by the Board as chair of Mind's Race Equality Advisory Board and as a board advisor. Since 2020, Richard also sits on the Creative Council of Africa No Filter, an organisation that aims to change global narratives about Africa.

Tracy McVeigh

Tracy is the editor of foundations' and philanthropically funded journalism at the Guardian. She also edits the global development section and two newsletters, HerStage and Global Dispatch. Formerly she was the chief reporter, and previously the foreign editor, at the UK's oldest Sunday newspaper, the Observer, and has reported extensively from around the world with a particular focus on east and southern Africa. Educated at the University of Glasgow, she has been a journalist for 30 years. She is on the Guardian's charity appeals' committee and also holds voluntary advisory roles on impact for at the University of Sussex's global development department and on the Jameel Index Advisory.

Rachel White

Rachel White is president of theguardian.org and executive vice president of philanthropy and business development at Guardian US. Working with global and US editorial teams she develops, funds, and executes editorial projects that drive measurable impact. In the US, she is building an events business, developing strategic partnerships that serve editorial, commercial and communications priorities, and developing a philanthropic individual giving program. Prior to joining the Guardian, she served as executive vice president and interim president of the Washington D.C.-based, think tank New America Foundation. Working across media, policy, government, the private sector, and philanthropy, she led the organization in advancing new thinkers and new ideas to address the next generation of challenges facing the United States, and launched New America NYC and New America Live. From 1995 to 2005, Rachel worked for the World Wildlife Fund where she helped lead the Living Planet Campaign.

Manie Steyn

Manie is Finance Business partner - Editorial UK, Philanthropic and Platform partnerships. He is an essential part of the Guardian’s finance leadership team. He has worked at the Guardian for over 9 years and has managed the finances of the Guardian’s Philanthropic department for the past 5 years. Prior to joining the Guardian, Manie worked in various finance roles within non profit and media sectors. Manie graduated from the University of South Africa with a degree in cost and management accounting.

Victoria Collins

Victoria is board secretary and director of operations for theguardian.org and manager of philanthropic and strategic partnerships at the Guardian. Prior to joining the Guardian in 2017, her career spanned the non-profit, legal, and government sectors. Victoria is a graduate of Georgia State University and holds an MBA from Johns Hopkins University.