Adji Bousso Dieng is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University where she leads the lab Vertaix on research at the intersection of artificial intelligence and the natural sciences. She is affiliated with the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, the Princeton Materials Institute, and the High Meadows Environmental Institute (HMEI). She is also a Research…
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Kimberly Gire is the Founder and Chair of Global Women Leaders Strategic Philanthropy, Co-Chair of the Centre for Disaster Protection, Chair of the Centre for Global Equality at Cambridge, and a member of the High-Level Steering Group for the Education Outcomes Fund hosted by UNICEF. A career banking and finance senior executive, she was previously the Chief Financial Officer for the retail,…
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Abhilasha Sahay is an Economist at the Gender Group at the World Bank, based in Washington DC. In her current role, she is leading a portfolio of projects on jobs and female labor force participation. She also serves as the Regional Liaison for Africa West region at the Bank and is a core team member of the World Bank’s Gender Strategy Update. Previously, Abhilasha has worked at the Africa Gender…
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Omnia El Omrani is the first official Youth Envoy for the COP27 President and a medical doctor from Egypt. She is a Climate Change and Health Junior Policy Fellow at Imperial College London and has more than seven years of experience in climate change facilitating over 74 hours of training sessions in 15 countries globally. She is a Commissioner at the Lancet-Chatham House Commission on Post-…
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Richa is the CEO and co-founder of Labhya, an India-based education nonprofit impacting 2.4 million vulnerable children. Her passion for education stems from her lived experience as a child and her extensive work with vulnerable children from the age of 16.
During her journey, she has worked with education non-profits like Teach For India and Teach For All. Additionally, she was…
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Isabel Santagostino Recavarren is a Private Sector Development Specialist with the Women, Business and the Law project. She currently leads research on violence against women, and the indicators on domestic violence and sexual harassment, as well as engagement activities with various stakeholders, including CSOs, the private sector and governments. Before joining the World Bank Group, she worked…
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Ratna Sahay is Senior Advisor on Gender in the Office of the Managing Director at the International Monetary Fund (IMF). She is responsible for mainstreaming gender in the Fund's core activities-surveillance, programs, and capacity development. Until April 2021, she was a Deputy Director in the Monetary and Capital Markets Department, where she led several policy papers and projects in the areas…
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Ms. Runa Khan, an Ashoka fellow and Schwab Foundation social entrepreneur, is the Founder and Executive Director of Friendship NGO. Friendship was founded drawing upon Ms. Runa Khan’s wide range of practical experiences of teaching, setting up small businesses, tourism, and communication among others and pioneered floating hospitals, provides integrated services for climate-impacted communities,…
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Ms. Grace Balawag is the Deputy Coordinator for the Indigenous Peoples’ Partnership on Climate Change, Forests and Sustainable Development, working with fourteen country Indigenous Peoples Organizations in eleven countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. She is of the indigenous caucus, Tebtebba-Indigenous Peoples’ International Centre for Policy Research and Education. Ms. Balawag joined…
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A scientist by training, Ms. Mandy Rambharos joined recently the Environmental Defense Fund after decades at Eskom Holdings where she served as the General Manager of Just Energy Transition. In that role, she led the development of Eskom’s strategy to transition from a coal-dominated utility to a renewables company. She is a former negotiator for South Africa at the United Nations climate talks,…
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