Dr. Fatou Diane has had a very successful career within the government for about fifteen years. She was Coordinator of the Promise at the Ministry of Microfinance and Social and Solidarity Economy after important functions at the Ministry of Economy, Finance and Planning as Director of Regulation and Supervision of Decentralized Financial Services (2017-2021), Technical Adviser to the Director…
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Priyal Agrawal is a young social entrepreneur, gender equality activist, and a Certified Sexuality Educator who is passionate about ensuring that millennials and GenZ have easy access to sexual and reproductive health information and services, required to gain complete control over their bodies and lives. With a background in Psychology and 3+ years of industrial experience in the mental health…
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Freedom-Kai Phillips, BSc honors (E. Michigan), MA (Seton Hall), LLB (Dalhousie), LLM (Ottawa), PhD Candidate (Cambridge) is Director of the Deloitte Center for Sustainable Progress (DCSP). In addition, Mr. Phillips is a Legal Research Fellow with the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law, and a member of the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law. With over two decades of…
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Betsy Lippman has worked on behalf of refugees and other forcibly displaced persons for 35 years with UNHCR, UNDP, the U.S. Department of State, the World Bank, the International Committee of the Red Cross and the American Red Cross. She is currently Acting Deputy Director in UNHCR’s Division of Resilience and Solutions. Her focus is in operationalizing the Global Compact on Refugees, through…
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Ousmane Dione, a Senegalese national, is the Country Director for Eritrea, Ethiopia, South Sudan and Sudan, in the Eastern and Southern Africa Region. Since joining the Bank in 2000 as a water resources management specialist, Dione has held a number of operational and leadership positions in Africa, South Asia, Latin America. His most recent assignment was as Country Director for Vietnam, in the…
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Cindy Huang is a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development (CGD). She has over 20 years of experience leading humanitarian and global development efforts across government and non-profit sectors. Most recently, Dr. Huang was the Director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement at the Department of Health and Human Services, where she led the humanitarian response to the arrival of a…
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A Turkish national and a professional migrant, Caglar received his undergraduate degrees in economics and industrial engineering from Cornell University and Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University. He is a fellow of IZA, CreAM and ERF. His research explores the nexus of globalization of product and labor markets, government policies and economic development. He has edited three books and…
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Laura Gil is the Vice Minister for Multilateral Affairs, Colombia. Ms. Gil is a foreign policy analyst and opinion leader from Colombia, with expertise in human rights and peacebuilding. She was the director of Diálogos and Estrategias, a Bogota-based firm dedicated to supporting public policies that further human rights, reconciliation, and post-conflict reconstruction. She has served as a…
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Sajjad Malik is the Director for the Division of Resilience and Solutions at UNHCR. Before taking up his current function in February 2020, he was UNHCR’s Representative in Damascus, Syria from August 2015 to February 2019. After which he served as the Special Adviser to the Executive Office in Geneva, Switzerland. Furthermore, Mr. Malik has previously served as Head of the Organizational…
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Angela Spilsbury is the Development Director, Jordan, at the UK Government’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO).
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