Members
Co-Chair(s)
- Julia Gillard- Prime Minister of Australia
- Paul Kagame - President of Rwanda
Members
- HHS Sheikha Moza bint Nasser - First Lady of Qatar, Chairperson of the Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development
- Akin Adesina - Vice President of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (Nigeria)
- Mukesh D. Ambani - Chairman and Managing Director, Reliance Industries (India)
- Stine Bosse - CEO of TrygVesta Group, Chairman of Børnefonden / The Childrens’Fund (Denmark)
- Ray Chambers - United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Malaria (United States)
- Dho Young-shim - Chairperson of the UN World Tourism Organization’s Sustainable Tourism for Eliminating Poverty (ST-EP) Foundation (Republic of Korea)
- Philippe Douste-Blazy - United Nations Special Advisor on innovative financing for development (France)
- Julio Frenk - Dean of the Harvard School of Public Health, former Minister of Health of Mexico
- Bob Geldof - Singer, songwriter, political activist (United Kingdom)
- Wangari Maathai (1940-2011) and the Green Belt Movement- Nobel Peace Prize Winner, environmental and political activist (Kenya)
- Graça Machel - Former First Lady of South Africa and Mozambique, advocate for women’s and children’s rights
- Jeffrey Sachs - United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Adviser on the MDGs (United States)
- Marina Silva - Environmentalist and politician (Brazil)
- Ted Turner - Philanthropist, Chairman of the United Nations Foundation (United States)
- Wang Yingfan - Vice-Chairman, Foreign Affairs Committee, Chinese National People's Congress 2003-2008
- Hiromasa Yonekura - Chairman of Sumitomo Chemical and of the Japan Business Federation / Keidanren
- Muhammad Yunus - Nobel Peace Prize Winner, founder of the Grameen Bank (Bangladesh)
Former Members*
- Michelle Bachelet - Former President of Chile, Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women (Chile)
- Jan Eliasson - United Nations Deputy Secretary-General (Sweden)
- Bill Gates - Philanthropist, Co-Chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Chairman of Microsoft Corp (United States)
- José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero - Former Prime Minister of Spain
*The former Members have worked closely with the MDG Advocacy Group in the run up to the MDG Summit of September 2010. Although they can no longer formally participate in the group due to other official duties and commitments, they remain close supporters of the the MDG Advocacy Group.