Pauline Irène Nguene is a Cameroonian politician and Minister for Social Affairs. In 2019, she received the distinction of Grand Officer of the Order of Valor. From 1991 to 2009, she successively held the following positions in the Prime Minister's Office: * Attaché (1991-1992); *Government Official Representative (1992-2001); *Technical advisor (2001-2009). In January 2009, she was appointed…
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Belarmino Jelembi is the General Director of the Angola Local Development Institute, a state agency whose mission is to contribute to promoting sustainable development and poverty reduction. He is currently implementing one of the largest social protection programs in Angola, the World Bank-financed KWENDA cash transfer program, for 1.6 million families. Belarmino spent 20 years at Action for…
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Dr hab. Agnieszka Chlon-Dominczak is an Associate Professor in the Institute of Statistics and Demography at Warsaw School of Economics, and was Deputy Minister of Labour and Social Policy between 2008-2009. She was also the vice president of Social Protection Committee of the European Council from 2007-2009, and a member of the Employment, Labour and Social Policy Committee in the OECD where she…
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The Minister of Health and Social Protection is a doctor and has a master's degree in Economics from the Javeriana University. He also has a master's degree in Public Health / Occupational Health from the Harvard School of Public Health, in Boston, and a doctorate in Public Health, from the National Institute of Public Health of Mexico. In his professional career, the position he held as Deputy…
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Economist with a Master's degree in Economics from the Universidad de los Andes and a Master's degree in Public Policy from the University of Chicago. She worked for more than 8 years at the World Bank on labor market, poverty, and social protection issues for countries in Southeast Asia, Latin America and Central Europe. She was Deputy Director of Education at the National Planning Department…
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Margaret Grosh is the Senior Advisor of Social Protection and Jobs Global Practice. She has written, lectured and advised extensively on social assistance programs, globally and for Latin America. Her most recent books are Exploring Universal Basic Income: A Guide to Navigating Concepts, Evidence and Practice (Gentilini et al 2020) and Protecting All: Risk Sharing for a Diverse and Diversifying…
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Hind Ali is in charge of monitoring and evaluation and donor relations at the Yemen Social Fund for Development (SFD). She has worked on poverty alleviation and social protection with the SFD since 2010. Prior to that, she worked in the field of Microfinance and SME development. She is part of SFD leadership and contributes to the development of SFD strategies, plans, and work systems. She…
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Aurélien Kruse is Lead Country Economist in the Accra office of the World Bank, covering Ghana, Liberia and Sierra Leone. He has worked in numerous countries including India, Kazakhstan, Nepal, Comoros and Kenya. He has written on decentralization (in Madagascar, Kenya, and Indonesia) as well as social protection (skills and jobs) in East Asia. Aurélien graduated from Harvard’s MPA-ID program in…
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Colin Andrews is a program manager in the World Bank’s Social Protection and Jobs Global Practice. He has over 15 years’ social protection experience in Africa, South Asia, and in global policy. Colin leads the Partnership for Economic Inclusion (PEI), a multi-partner initiative to support the scale-up of national economic inclusion programs. Colin managed lending operations on safety nets and…
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Catherine Russell serves as UNICEF’s 8th Executive Director, overseeing the organization’s work for children in over 190 countries and territories. Ms. Russell brings to the role decades of experience in public service, with a focus on empowering underserved communities around the world and developing high-impact policies and programmes to support women and girls, including in humanitarian crises…
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