Branko Milanovic is a Presidential Professor at the Graduate Center and a Senior Fellow at the Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality. Previously, he served as lead economist in World Bank Research Department for almost 20 years and as a senior associate at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington. He has held teaching appointments at the University of Maryland and at the Paul…
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A leader in international development and a long-serving champion of gender equality, Sofía Sprechmann Sineiro has been with CARE for more than 25 years. She was integral to placing women and gender justice at the heart of CARE’s work. Prior to becoming the organization’s Secretary General in 2020, she was Program Director for CARE International and responsible for leading the implementation of…
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Alejandra Botero has been Director General of the Department of Planning in Colombia since August 2021. Prior to that, she was Advisor to the President for Management and Compliance, leading the implementation of key initiatives such as the creation of Compliance Units, aimed at improving public management in different areas of the country. Previously, she coordinated the Enterprise Innovation…
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Mavis Owusu-Gyamfi is Executive Vice President of the African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET). In this role, she assumes broad strategic and leadership responsibilities, working across departments to bolster ACET programs and to strengthen collaboration and outreach with partners in both the public and private sectors. Mavis joined ACET having built a distinguished career over 25 years…
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Jonathan Rothwell is the Principal Economist at Gallup, where he helps clients design and execute research to answer their questions and address societal challenges. Before joining Gallup in 2016, he was a Fellow at the Brookings Institution where he is currently a Nonresident Senior Fellow. His work specializes in labor economics, political economy, and urban economics and sociology. In addition…
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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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Dr. Shah serves as President of the Rockefeller Foundation, a global institution with a mission to promote the well-being of humanity around the world. The Foundation applies data, science, and innovation to improve health for women and children, create nutritious and sustainable food systems, end energy poverty for more than a billion people worldwide, and enable meaningful economic mobility in…
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Indermit Gill is Vice President for Equitable Growth, Finance and Institutions at the World Bank. Between 2016 and 2021, he was a professor of public policy at Duke University and nonresident senior fellow in the Global Economy and Development program at the Brookings Institution. Gill worked at the World Bank from 1993 to 2016, where his assignments included Director of Development Policy in…
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Professor Abhijit Banerjee was educated at the University of Calcutta, Jawaharlal Nehru University and Harvard University, where he received his Ph.D in 1988. He is currently the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2003 he founded the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), along with Esther Duflo and Sendhil Mullainathan…
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