Vera Songwe and Witney Schneidman

Vera Songwe, a former executive secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa and undersecretary-general at the UN, is a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, Founder and Chair of the Liquidity and Sustainability Facility, and Co-Chair of the Expert Review on Debt, Nature and Climate.

Witney Schneidman, a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, was US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs during the Clinton administration.