Isam Ghanim returned to ChildFund as its ninth president and CEO in March 2022, most recently having served for three years as president of Search for Common Ground, a $60 million organization focused on transforming how the world deals with conflict. His career in international development began at CARE Sudan, just after he completed his master's degree at Sudan's University of Khartoum. In his 21 years with CARE, Ghanim held various roles in Sudan, Somalia, India and at the regional level before eventually becoming its vice president for Global Program Resources and Learning. He held that position from 2003 until 2007, when he joined ChildFund as vice president for the Africa region. Isam would later assume responsibility for the Asia and Americas regions as VP of Global Operations, and then, with his promotion to Executive Vice President for Programs in 2011, for program development, the role he held until his departure to SFCG in 2018.

Dina started out her professional career working as export sales responsible for a company in the engineering industry. In 1997, she decided to commit herself to the international cooperation development field with GVC, one of the most relevant Italian NGOs. Her first experience with the Organisation took her to Palestine, where she initially worked as Project Manager, coordinating emergency interventions in the Gaza Strip, and later became Regional Representative for the Middle East based in Jerusalem. In 2002 she returned to Bologna, the Italian Headquarters of GVC, responsible for operations in Africa, Asia and the Middle Ease, and subsequently assumed the role of International Programmes Director. In June 2014 she was elected President of GVC and in December 2018 she became CEO and General Manager of the WeWorld-GVC Foundation.

"Being part of a project of transformation and social change in such complex contexts, which forces us to redouble our efforts to guarantee the rights and well-being of boys and girls, is a great challenge, but also a very exciting project to which I can contribute and from which I can learn. "

With a degree in Geography and History from the University of Granada, Pilar's career stands out for her solid continuous training: Master's Degree in NGO Management and Direction, Executive MP Women for Senior Management, and Executive Management Program, all of them studied at ESADE Business School.

Pilar has more than twenty years of experience in the third sector. Her professional career has been consolidated and developed in the international organization Oxfam Intermón in which she has assumed different responsibilities, mainly in Spain, but also in the Central American region. Together with the Oxfam Intermón team, she has led projects for social transformation, humanitarian response, food security, defense of the rights of women and girls and fair trade with the aim of eradicating poverty in the most vulnerable communities. She has also held the position of vice president of the Coordinator of Organizations for Development in Spain and worked at the Agua de Coco Foundation in monitoring projects, cooperation and awareness in Cambodia and Madagascar.