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5th Annual MIGA Gender CEO Award: Women Leading Climate Finance

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Every year, MIGA presents its Gender CEO Award to honor senior managers (CEOs or equivalent) who have a proven track record of seeking to further the causes of women’s advancement and gender equality while contributing to the World Bank Group’s twin goals of poverty reduction and shared prosperity.

This year’s theme is “Women Leading Climate Finance” in honor of the 2019 awardee, Lara de Mesa, Head of Responsible Banking at Banco Santander Group. Ms. De Mesa has been Head of Responsible Banking at Santander since September 2018. Its responsible banking agenda is making Santander one of the most responsible banks in the world, across all countries where Santander is present (including Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Chile, US, UK, Germany and Poland).

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Kristalina Georgieva

Managing Director, International Monetary Fund

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Keiko Honda

Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer, Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA)

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Kathy Calvin

President and CEO, UN Foundation

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S. Vijay Iyer

Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, MIGA

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Lara de Mesa

Head of Responsible Banking, Santander

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Jean-Claude Tchatchouang

Executive Director, Board of the Executive Directors of the World Bank Group
Annette Dixon

Vice President, Human Development, The World Bank

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