Gary Huang

Past President Rotary International

Wade Nomura

OPS Team Chair, WASH-Rotary Action Group
Reforesting the Denuded Watershed in Guatemala

Kaloy Manlupig

Volunteer CEO Safe Water for Every Child, Philippines
Safe Water in the Most Vulnerable Environments: Lessons from Communities at the Margins

Steve Bender

ESRAG

Brian Ashworth

Honorary CEO Disaster Aid Australia

Iryna Odyntsova

Past President of Rotary Club Dnipro Novyi

Dr Olha Paliychuk

District 2232 Governor 2025-2026

Professional position:
MD, PhD, DMSc, Prof, MBA in Health Care
Ministry of Health of Ukraine Board Experts of the oncological diseases member and secretary,
ESMO (European Society of Medical Oncologists) and ESGO (European Society of Gynecological Oncologists) member, All-Ukrainian Association of Gynecological Oncologists and Ukrainian Association of Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology Board of Experts member,
СЕО, co-founder and co-owner of the Cherkasy “Andromeda+” private medical center, Professor of the Department of Fundamental Medicine in Bohdan Khmelnytskiy Cherkasy National University, gynecologist-oncologist in the Cherkasy Regional Center of Oncology, Hematology, Transplantation and Palliative Care.

Rotary position:
DG 2025-2026, D2232 Medical Coordinator 2022-2023 and Coordinating Committee for the Prevention of Humanitarian Disaster member 2022-2025, DISC 2022-2025 and Rotary Fellowships&Action Groups Subcommittee Chair 2020-2024, SCC 2019-2022, ICC Ukraine-USA, ICC Ukraine-Netherlands & ICC Ukraine-Turkey Board member.
Rotary Fellowships and Action Groups: International Rotary Fellowship of Healthcare Professionals (IRFHP) Ukrainian Branch Secretary 2022-2025 and World Board member (Ukraine) 2023-2024, RAG of Mental Health Initiatives, WASH RAG and RAG for Peace member, RC in IYFR Region Ukraine.
Club: RC Cherkasy Foundation Chair 2019-2025.
PHF, Service Above Self Award, Major Donor.

Steve Werner

Chair WASH-RAG Ambassadors Committee
WASH-RAG Ambassador Program

Faiz Kidwai

Past Rotary International Director
SMART Villages Project

Ann Marie Kimball, M.D.

Dept of Epidemiology, Univ of Washington
Moderator for the Rotary Action Group Panel

Ann Marie Kimball is an American physician. She is known for being the pioneer of electronic disease surveillance for infectious disease outbreaks and pandemics. She is currently a Professor Emerita in the Department of Epidemiology at the University of Washington,[1] a Consulting Fellow at the Chatham House Royal Institute of Foreign Affairs,[2] and was a Strategic Consultant in Global Health at the Rockefeller Foundation. Kimball served as a technical and strategic lead for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation infectious disease surveillance strategy formation.

Kimball’s research on global trade and emerging infections has earned her a Fulbright New Century Scholars award and a Guggenheim Scholars award. She is the author of two books, entitled Risky Trade: Infectious Diseases in an Era of Global Trade, and Risks and Challenges in Medical Tourism.[3] She has also done extensive media work with television, radio and the press.[4] Kimball brought important innovations to international infectious disease surveillance through the founding of the APEC Emerging Infections network advanced electronic disease surveillance and networking in the Asia Pacific.[2]

Kimball is a Fellow in the American College of Preventive Medicine.

Angela Benson, M.D.

Chair, Rotary Action Group of Reproductive, Maternal and Child Health – Liberia

Angela will discuss the life-saving importance of WASH for mothers and babies, highlighting the significant number of preventable deaths linked to inadequate water, sanitation, and hygiene. She will also share insights from her work in Liberia, including collaborations with UNICEF and the World Health Organization (WHO).

G. Ann Evans, DrPH, MNP

G. Ann Evans will focus on how WASH relates to preventable blindness, highlighting how poor sanitation and lack of clean water can lead to eye infections and vision loss. She will also share prevention strategies and insights from her global Rotary work in blindness prevention.

Deb McCaslin, MM, PDG

Rotary Action Group for Girls’ Empowerment – Founding Member and Treasurer – Nebraska, USA

Deb will address the importance of menstrual hygiene in enabling children—especially girls—to attend school consistently, as well as the critical need for reliable access to clean water. She will also highlight the borehole project in Zimbabwe and its impact on improving health, dignity, and educational opportunities for girls.

Aziz Memon

Chair, National Polio Plus Committee, Pakistan and Rotary International PolioPlus Committee, and Past TRF Trustee

Aziz will highlight the mangrove restoration initiative in the Sindh Valley, a project launched in response to the devastating 2022 floods. He will share how this effort is contributing to environmental recovery, climate resilience, and the protection of vulnerable coastal communities.

Aziz Memon is chair of the Kings Group, a conglomerate of five companies that is one of the leading textile and ready-made garment manufacturing and exporting groups in Pakistan. He is also chair of the board of the Karachi Garment City, a project of the government of Pakistan. Memon’s other roles include honorary consul general of the Republic of Suriname in Karachi, president of the English Speaking Union of Pakistan, and president of the United Memon Jamat of Pakistan, a nongovernmental organization dedicated to community development and helping the underprivileged.

Since he joined Rotary in 1995, he has been widely recognized for his leadership in polio eradication. Memon has served as member of the International PolioPlus Committee and chair of the Pakistan PolioPlus Committee. He has worked closely with Rotary’s partners and stakeholders, including UNICEF, WHO and its Expanded Programme on Immunization, government officials, religious scholars, celebrities, business leaders, and Rotarians from around the world. He was one of four polio eradication activists to receive the Louis Pasteur Medal by the Institut Pasteur. His other RI leadership positions have included training leader, committee member, and RI president’s representative. Memon says his favorite Rotary project was working with his club to raise over $285,000 to fund an English-language instruction school for 4,000 children.

Memon has received the Service Above Self Award, the International and Regional Service Awards for a Polio-Free World, and The Rotary Foundation’s Distinguished Service Award and Citation for Meritorious Service. In recognition of his community and humanitarian services in the health sector, the president of Pakistan conferred the Pride of Performance Award on Memon in 2011. He and his wife, Samina, are members of the Arch Klumph Society.