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We support locally-rooted, globally networked innovative leaders around the globe through our Fellowship programs and government partnerships. Explore our community database below to learn more.

Adebisi Alimi

Adebisi Alimi

Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
Nigeria

An LGBT advocate and HIV activist, Adebisi Alimi was the first person to ever come out as gay on Nigerian television. After an attempt on…

Isabelle Kamariza

Isabelle Kamariza

Food Security
Rwanda

Isabelle Kamariza is a philanthropist and social change maker. She is the president and founder of Solid’Africa, a Rwandan social enterprise founded in 2010 whose…

Renard Siew

Renard Siew

Environment
Malaysia

Renard Siew is an environmental activist and climate leader in ASEAN working with marginalized and displaced communities. He currently acts as climate change adviser to…

David Kuria

David Kuria

Environment
Kenya

David Kuria is the CEO of Ecotact Limited and the Regional Social Entrepreneur of the Year for Africa, 2009. Ecotact is a social enterprise that…

Masooma Ranalvi

Masooma Ranalvi

Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
India

Masooma is an activist who leads efforts to advance the goal of ending female genital mutilation in India by working closely with members of her…

Fatou Ndow

Fatou Ndow

Economic Empowerment & Entrepreneurship, Health
Gambia

Fatou Ndow is an experienced public health program leader specialising in HIV, sexual & reproductive health and nutrition. She uses research; to design, implement and…

Roseline Orwa

Roseline Orwa

Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
Kenya

Roseline Orwa is a Kenyan social entrepreneur focused on gender equality, and rural development. She is founder of the Rona Foundation, which supports rural widows and champions…

Thilmeeza Hussain

Thilmeeza Hussain

Environment, Governance
Maldives

Thilmeeza Hussain is the Permanent Representative of the Maldives to the United Nations, and non-resident High Commissioner to Canada, posts she assumed in 2019. Ms….

Ify Aniebo

Ify Aniebo

Health
Nigeria

After suffering from bouts of malaria as a child, Dr. Aniebo decided fight back by studying malaria drug resistance and its implications for vaccine work…

Carl Manlan

Carl Manlan

Governance
Ivory Coast (Cote D`Ivoire)

Carl Manlan is an economist from Côte d’Ivoire currently serving as the Chief Operating Officer of the Ecobank Foundation. Prior to his tenure at the…

Primah Kwagala

Primah Kwagala

Governance, Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
Uganda

Primah has handled cases involving patients, illegal detentions in health facilities, access to emergency obstetric care, access to free vital medicines, and has led teams…

Deborah Nakatudde

Deborah Nakatudde

Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
Uganda

Nakatudde Deborah is the founder and Executive Director of Serving Lives Under Marginalization -SLUM an organization in Uganda that provides SRHR services, HIV prevention, care…

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The Aspen Global Innovators Group supports two flagship fellowship programs. These fellowships enable leaders to amplify their voices, visibility and impact. Leaders bring expertise from all sectors and include entrepreneurs, community organizers and local experts who are both proximate to the greatest health and development challenges of our time and also bring lived and learned experience to their solutions.