Ayhan Kose is Acting Vice President of the World Bank’s Equitable Growth, Finance and Institutions (EFI) Practice Group and Director EFI’s Prospects Group. He manages operational, policy, and advisory engagements across the areas of finance, competitiveness, and innovation; macroeconomics, trade, and investment; poverty and equity; and governance. He also leads the Bank’s policy and analytical…
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Gonzalo Hernández Licona is the Director of the Multidimensional Poverty Peer Network (MPPN-OPHI), where he coordinates 61 countries and 19 international institutions to advance and exchange ideas about implementing Multidimensional Poverty Indicators. He is also an expert for Country-Led evaluations working for UNICEF. He is Senior Research Fellow at the International Initiative for Impact…
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Miriam Muller is a Social Scientist with the Poverty and Equity Global Practice, in the West and Central Africa region. Prior to joining the West and Central Africa region, she has worked extensively in Latin America, focusing on qualitative research and on gender equality in Latin America. Before joining the World Bank, Miriam worked on gender equality with the German Development Cooperation (…
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Greta Bull is the CEO of CGAP and a director at the World Bank Group. She has 20 years of experience in development finance, primarily focused on small and medium enterprise finance, microfinance, and digital financial services. She has worked with both financial services providers and policy makers in Latin America, Central and Eastern Europe, Sub-Saharan Africa, and South Asia. Her clients and…
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Gladys Lopez-Acevedo is a Lead Economist and a Global Lead at the World Bank in the Poverty and Equity Global Practice. She works primarily in the South Asia and Middle East and North Africa Regions of the World Bank. Gladys’ areas of analytical and operational interest include trade, welfare, gender, conflict, and jobs. Previously, she was a Lead Economist in the World Bank Chief Economist’s…
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In a career spanning almost five decades, Dr. K.Y. Amoako has contributed with passion and energy to Africa’s ongoing development. After obtaining a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California-Berkeley in 1974, he began his career at the World Bank, where he spent two decades working in Africa and Washington, D.C., on vital but underserved economic and social development issues, such as…
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Carolina Sánchez-Páramo is the Global Director of the Poverty and Equity Global Practice (GP) at the World Bank. During her tenure at the Bank, she has also worked on operations, policy advice and analytical activities in Eastern Europe, Latin America and South Asia, and was part of the core team working on the WDR2012, “Gender Equality and Development”. Her main areas of interest and expertise…
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As Managing Director of BRAC’s Ultra-Poor Graduation Initiative (UPGI), Lindsay leads BRAC’s efforts to eradicate extreme poverty through a focus on the world’s poorest people. Lindsay and her team work to realize SDG 1 and for the uptake of the Graduation approach by policymakers, development finance agencies, national governments, non-governmental organizations, and microfinance institutions.…
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Ambar Narayan, a Lead Economist in the Poverty Global Practice of the World Bank, focuses on policy analysis and research on micro development issues, on topics such as inequality of opportunity, poverty reduction, policy and program evaluation, and the impact of economic shocks. He leads the central support team for the World Bank’s Systematic Country Diagnostics, and in the past has worked in…
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Pablo Fajnzylber is Acting Vice President and Director of Strategy and Operations for the Infrastructure Practice Group, covering Energy and Extractives, Transport, Digital Development and Infrastructure Finance, Public Private Partnerships and Guarantees. The World Bank’s active portfolio in these areas consists of more than 400 operations for a total value of USD 75 billion, focused on…
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