Our team

Debra Ruh

CEO of Ruh Global IMPACT, Co-Founder and Chair of Billion-Strong

"The world has come together to agree on the UN 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs) to solve our largest global problems. Connect Aid International has brought together NGOs around the world that are on the frontlines supporting the implementation of the UN SDGs. Together we are stronger and can make a huge difference for our living planet, people, and the other inhabitants. I am proud to become an ambassador for this important initiative to save our world."

Christine Milne

Global Greens Ambassador, Patron Australian Smart Energy Council, Officer of the Order of Australia. 

"Faced with the Climate and Biodiversity crises and overwhelming inequality, committed people, often in small local NGOs are working all over the world to achieve the SDGs but who knows of their work or how to help them? Volunteers without financial or human resources often don’t know one another beyond their community or region nor are they aware that others are prepared to help or how to access that support. ConnectAID is the critical link to amplify these inspiring stories and to enable the whole global effort for the SDGs to be greater than the sum of the parts."

Melissa Sassi

CTO, leader in emergent technology

"We have big, wicked challenges to solve as we work toward achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. I’m personally excited about the power of bringing the world together through the ConnectAID umbrella. Let’s go and go together to make the world a better place!"

Felix Dodds

Author, activist, academic, futurist – co-author of Negotiating the SDGs

"Today we live in an inter connected world where change is happening at an ever increasing rate. To help balance that ConnectAID has embraced the Sustainable Development Goals as the framework which we can all support to enable us to secure only one earth for generations to come. By connecting us all together we can support each other and projects that make a real difference by utilizing the opportunities that new technology gives us."

Amaya Gillespie

UN Adviser & Former Director of the UN Study on violence against children

"I still believe that the world is a generous place and it is possible to live life 'on purpose"; but too often we get wrapped up in our own individual effort and forget that we can do so much more when we are "connected". That is what ConnectAID is all about.

As the proverb goes: " If you want to go quickly go alone, if you want to go far, go together..."

Yasmine Sherif

Director of Education Cannot Wait, the UN global fund for education in emergencies, hosted by UNICEF

"Fantistic initiative, even more than inovative, this is geneous.

Education Cannot Wait is in!"

Barbara Ryan

Executive Director World Geospatial Industry Council - Former Director of GEO & of Space program at WMO

“There are many great organizations addressing the climate, environmental, and development challenges. Yet, each of these efforts are often conducted in isolation, and are rarely integrated. The Earth is an integrated system, and we therefore need integrated approaches to solving global problems. ConnectAID facilitates this integration that we so sorely need. It is a a force-multiplier for achieving SDGs."

AY Young

Battery Tour Founder, Singer, Songwriter, Dancer, nominated by Amina Mohamed as one of the 17 UN SDG Young Leaders (USA)

"Together with ConnectAID, the International Solidarity Network, we can be the plug: connecting people to international aid and using music as a vehicle to get the world plugged-in to sustainability"

Kash Sirinanda

Founder Elite Futurists

“Imagine creating a world that is driven by economic, social and environmental sustainability; a world in which we can be proud of ourselves. This is the vision of ConnectAID. Time to rethink our world vision.”

Antonio Vieira Santos

Co-Founder of DT Lab, Innovation broker.

"My passion is to recognize opportunities that link tech, ideas, and people through networking. I see ConnectAID as a major opportunity for mankind."

Patrick Paul Walsh

Senior Adviser at UN SDSN, Director Sustainable Development Studies at the University College Dublin

"None of us are doing any good unless we are using our capacities for the least developped countries. I am happy, delighted even to be an Ambassador for ConnectAID and to be that academic voice."

Thomas Gloria

Former Director of the Sustainability Programme at Harvard University, Managing Director at Industrial Ecology Consultants

"For those who discover who ConnectAID is and what it's about: there is this true sense that we all belong. ConnectAID's strength is making everyone feel like they fit and everyone feels empowered to do something for sustainable development."

Jennifer Williams

Co-founder @TakeActionEdu

"We need to move to the next level of solidarity. ConnectAID offers a human-centered approach with dedication to building an inclusive community and collective action. We are the people, this is the moment--let's join together for our planet and its citizens."

Helene Li

Co Founder GoImpact General Manager Fintech Association of Hong Kong

"There is a huge urgency to connect the dots in driving the Sustainable Development agenda. ConnectAID is a powerful platform for that. We need to move from intention to action rapidly - there’s no Planet B, and no business to be done on a half dead planet !"

Kent Page

Chief Advocacy and Communication, Education Cannot Wait, the UN global fund for education in emergencies, hosted by UNICEF

"Congratulations to ConnectAID, what you are building is terrific."

Shruti Kapoor

Founder & CEO of Sayfty,
Inclusion Advisory Board at L’Oréal