Leslie Knott
Leslie Knott is an award-winning Canadian documentary filmmaker and co-founder of Tiger Nest Films. Nominated for an Academy Award and an Emmy, she is known for compassionate storytelling from conflict and post-conflict regions. Her films have taken her from Afghanistan and Iraq to refugee communities around the world, working with broadcasters including the BBC, Channel 4, PBS and Netflix. Leslie’s work often focuses on women’s rights, justice and resilience, and has contributed to real-world impact, including the release of imprisoned Afghan women following international attention generated by her films.
Nada Amri Wheeler
Nada Amri Wheeler is a strategy consultant and entrepreneur with over 13 years of experience advising businesses and public institutions across multiple industries. She is the founder of Artemis Consulting, a firm specializing in strategy development and implementation, and the founder of The Women Club in Mauritius, a pioneering community created to empower women, foster leadership, and open progressive conversations around business and society. Prior to launching her ventures, Nada worked as a Senior Manager at EY, following earlier roles in banking and corporate communications. Passionate about women’s leadership and entrepreneurship, she is committed to supporting initiatives that help women build impactful and sustainable ventures.
Grace Escamilla
Grace Escamilla is a forward-thinking international consultant with more than 10 years of experience delivering market intelligence, strategic advisory, and operational solutions in complex and high-risk environments. She specializes in organizational resilience across emerging markets, with a particular focus on Africa, the Middle East, and post-conflict settings. She has partnered with governments, multilateral institutions, private investors, and international development funding entities—including USAID, UNDP, UN Women, and the World Bank/IFC—to provide actionable insights, risk assessments, and program design support She is passionate about bridging the gap between strategic vision and actionable operational outcomes, helping clients achieve sustainable growth, resilience, and impact.
Sola Green
Sola is a very experienced brand and marketing specialist and have worked across most advertsing disciplines within the industry at the very highest level. A highly creative and driven marketer with over 20 years’ experience working both agency & client-side, specialising in developing markets – recent focus has been EA, but she has have worked across most African markets, South America, Middle East and UK.
Areas of expertise include brand creation & management, planning & executing marketing strategy, integrated campaign management, storytelling and content creation, experiential & digital planning. A true all-round marketer with a flair for brand & creativity.
Nadene Ghouri
Nadene Ghouri is an award-winning journalist with substantial experience across news, current affairs, and documentary. Her ability to source human stories behind the headlines, her incisive reporting, and her empathetic interviewing make Nadene a journalistic force. She is a former correspondent of both the BBC and Al Jazeera and has written for world leading publications such as The Guardian, The Mail on Sunday and Vice. Her wide scope of work spans both domestic and foreign across a variety of subjects.
Nadene is of mixed British, Afghan, and Pakistani heritage. She began her career in newspapers before moving into broadcast, and loves the diversity of working across the different mediums of print, radio, television and digital. Long-form current affairs is her true love for the in-depth flexibility it allows in telling a story. Whether reporting the pressing domestic agendas of the day or from the world’s most hostile or complex environments, Nadene gives the best of her ability to each, and every, story. If it matters to the viewer, listener, or reader – then it matters to Nadene.