Judges & Reviewers

Adenike Adeyemi is the Executive Director of FATE Foundation, Nigeria’s leading business incubator.

Arturo Franco is a development economist and strategy consultant. His career combines high-level positions in Fortune 500 corporations and global organizations, with public policy and international development experience.

Bitange Ndemo’s career spans academia, government service, advisory roles, and entrepreneurship. He is Kenya’s Ambassador to Belgium and is also responsible for representing the country’s interests at the Mission to the European Union.

Danil Mikhailov, Ph.D. is the Executive Director of data.org. He has over 20 years of experience setting up multiple start-ups and leading work across a range of diverse sectors, always investigating and innovating in the space where technology, culture, and society converge.

Erik Arnold has a passion for applying technology solutions to the nonprofit sector and joined Microsoft in 2017 as the Global Chief Technology Officer for the Tech for Social Impact team in Microsoft Philanthropies.

Ginger Zielinskie is the Senior Advisor at data.org, where she works to bring the power of data science to the world’s most challenging social problems. With over twenty years of experience, Ginger serves as an action-oriented executive leader focused on building strong partnerships to achieve systematic and meaningful change.

Kate leads Microsoft Philanthropies, a global, multi-disciplinary team that brings together corporate social responsibility, sales, and engineering functions to help drive inclusive economic growth.

Dr. Juan M. Lavista Ferres is currently the VP, Chief Data Scientist of the Microsoft AI For Good Lab, where he works with a team of data scientists and researchers in AI, Machine Learning, and statistical modeling to catalyze and inspire others to partner in solving the world’s greatest challenges.

Preyansi Mani is the Education and Youths Advisor and India lead for the transformative Digital Skills2 Succeed in Asia project at the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ).

Sharath Srinivasan, Ph.D. co-directs the Centre of Governance and Human Rights at the University of Cambridge, where he is David and Elaine Potter Associate Professor in the Department of Politics and International Studies and a Fellow of King’s College.

Shilpa Kumar is a Partner at Omidyar Network India, a social impact investment fund.

Dr. Uyi Stewart is the Chief Data and Technology at data.org. Uyi provides senior technical leadership in all aspects of data.org’s work, with a particular focus on our programmatic initiatives which today include the Inclusive Growth and Recovery Challenge, the Capacity Accelerator Network, and Epiverse.

As Senior Vice President for Innovation, Zia oversees The Rockefeller Foundation’s approach to developing solutions that can have transformative impact on people’s lives, with a focus on innovative finance, data & technology, and science. He writes and speaks frequently on leadership, strategy, and innovation.