Dilafruz Khonikboyeva is the Inaugural Executive Director of Home Planet Fund. Ms. Khonikboyeva was previously a political appointee of the US Biden-Harris Administration, spent five years with the Aga Khan Development Network, and eight years responding to conflict and climate crises.

Ms. Khonikboyeva is a transformational conflict expert, focused on civil war, environment and resource conflicts, and storytelling. She has served on the Board of her alma mater the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution at George Mason University and lead the Climate Change Working Group for Women of Color Advancing Peace, Security and Conflict Transformation (WCAPS). She is a Presidential Leadership Scholar.

Dilafruz is indigenous Pamiri from Khorog, Tajikistan.