Henrietta Fore recently served as the seventh executive director of UNICEF. Prior to taking up this appointment Ms. Fore served as chair of the board and chief executive officer of Holsman International, a manufacturing and investment company. From 2007 to 2009, Ms. Fore served as both the administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the director of U.S. foreign assistance in the U.S. State Department. From 2005 to 2007, Ms. Fore was under secretary of state for management, the chief operating officer for the U.S. Department of State. Prior to that, she was the 37th director of the United States Mint, a position she held from 2001 to 2005. Earlier in her career, at USAID, she was appointed as assistant administrator for Asia and assistant administrator for private enterprise (1989–1993). She also served on the boards of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation and the Millennium Challenge Corporation. In addition to her government service, Ms. Fore has had leadership roles in a number of organizations in civil society. Ms. Fore has also had leadership roles in the corporate sector, serving on the boards of a number of U.S. and international public corporations. Ms. Fore has a Bachelor of Arts in History from Wellesley College and a Master of Science in Public Administration from the University of Northern Colorado. She is married and has four children. 

Gargee Ghosh leads the foundation’s work in international political and economic affairs, overseeing relationships with governments, intergovernmental organizations, advocates, and philanthropic partners worldwide. Her role includes overseeing the foundation’s offices in Washington, D.C., Europe, and China. 

Gargee holds graduate degrees in economics and international relations from Oxford University and Georgetown University, respectively, and an undergraduate degree in economics from the University of Victoria. Her career has spanned the public and private sectors, from the United Nations to McKinsey & Co., the Center for Global Development, and Google. She traces her interest in international development to her family’s roots in West Bengal, India. 

Gargee lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband, two active children, and one lazy rescue dog. 

Appointed by President Joe Biden in June 2022, Special Representative for Global Partnerships McAuliffe leads the Office of Global Partnerships to advance the Administration’s strategy of revitalizing alliances and partnerships to address global challenges by engaging a diverse range of stakeholders, including a broad range of civil society and private sector actors.  Special Representative McAuliffe and her team are the central point for private sector engagement in the Department of State, and work to identify areas of opportunity for collaboration between the Department of State and the private sector. 

As Special Representative for Global Partnerships, McAuliffe has led five overseas Partnership Opportunity Delegations to foster Public-Private collaboration in key sectors including climate technology, digital transformation and inclusion, and cyber security.  Under her leadership, the Office of Global Partnerships launched eight Coalition for Climate Entrepreneurship (CCE) hubs around the world, thus CCE Hubs provide accelerator programs, training, mentorship, and access to capital that draws from local expertise and builds out local ecosystems.  Since 2022, the Department’s Women in Science (WiSci) partnership resumed in-person STEAM Camps that bring together 100 teen girls from several countries to explore STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts & Design, Mathematics) interests and build leadership skills.  The Office of Global Partnerships facilitates thousands of public-private partnerships across the Department of State in key policy areas such as emerging technology and innovation, entrepreneurship and economic development, climate change and adaptation, energy security, gender equity, and countering malign influence across the global.  

Prior to her appointment at State, McAuliffe most recently served as the national policy advisor for Share Our Strength and the No Kid Hungry Campaign where she met with federal, state, and local government leaders, as well as members of the business and philanthropic sectors to create partnerships and advocate for policies to end child hunger and advance equity in public education.  As First Lady of Virginia, McAuliffe founded and chaired Virginia’s Council on Bridging the Nutritional Divide, a groundbreaking initiative which forged cross-sector, public-private collaboration to improve childhood nutrition and build food access initiatives. 

McAuliffe earned a B.A. from Catholic University of America and J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center. 

Andrew Sollinger is the publisher and CEO of Foreign Policy, which he joined in 2018. Previously, he was executive vice president at Business Insider, executive director of Capital New York (now Politico NY) and managing director of the Financial Times Americas. Sollinger was part of the executive team that built Money-Media, a digital news startup focused on the fund management industry, and sold it to the FT. A former reporter and editor for Institutional Investor magazine’s newsletter division, Andrew has lived in London, Hong Kong and New York. He is a graduate of Clark University, where he was executive editor of The Scarlet.