Ms. Yetunde Adeyemi is the founder of Active Foods Ltd, a successful food production and distribution company established in 2003. It began with flour but has since diversified into trading other products, such as rice, sugar, semolina, and baking ingredients like yeast and butter. As a beneficiary of the World Bank We-Fi project in Nigeria focused on expanding access to finance for women…
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Hicham El Habti is the President of Mohammed VI Polytechnic University. With a combination of corporate education management, administration, and leadership capabilities, he continues to foster organizational development, leading formulation and implementation of the university’s strategic vision and transformation aspirations. He is working to promote the implementation of effective procedures…
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H.E. Cina Lawson is Minister of Digital Economy and Transformation of Togo. Lawson began her career at the World Bank in Washington, DC where she worked on telecom restructuring projects in developing countries focusing on regulatory reforms. She went on to become a Manager of Corporate Strategy and Business Development at the Orange Group in New York City, and later at Alcatel-Lucent in Paris.…
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H.E. Nadia Fettah, appointed by His Majesty King Mohammed VI on October 7, 2021, is the first woman appointed to this position in the Kingdom of Morocco. Born in 1971, H.E. Nadia Fettah was the Minister of Tourism, Handicrafts, Air Transport, and Social Economy between 2019 and 2021. A high school graduate from the “Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales” in Paris in 1994, H.E. Nadia Fettah started…
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Mr. K'Ombudo has designed and implemented economic development, trade, and investment projects while working in senior positions at the World Bank Group, the United Nations Development Program, and the International Trade Centre. He advised the Government of Mozambique during ascension to the SADC Free Trade Area and the Nigerian Presidency on developing the African Peer Review Mechanism. He is…
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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…
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Julie Ryan works for the International Finance Corporation’s Risk and Public Affairs team. She previously worked for the Doing Business team, collecting and analyzing data for the Getting Credit – Credit Information indicator. Julie is the co-author of the annual Doing Business report’s chapter on the ease of doing business score calculations as well as several case studies. She has a master's…
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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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Arame Tall is a Senior Adaptation & Resilience Specialist in the Climate Change Group of the World Bank. Dr. Tall leads coordination of the Bank’s work on Adaptation & Resilience and is the team leader for the World Bank Group’s first of its kind Action Plan on Climate Change Adaptation & Resilience. The new plan significantly boosts support for adaptation and resilience, and also…
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Joan M. Larrea is an expert in catalyzing investment in places that need it most and brings with her over 20 years of experience in emerging markets investing. Joan has led Convergence since its inception, establishing it as the leading independent authority on blended finance. She serves on the Global Environment Facility Advisory Group for Non-Grant Instruments and the Advisory Council for…
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