Sérgio Pimenta is IFC’s Regional Vice President for Africa. In this capacity, he is in charge of all advisory and investment operations in a region with a committed portfolio of $13.3 billion and more than 700 staff working to expand the private sector's role in addressing urgent development challenges in the financial, manufacturing, agribusiness and services, and infrastructure industries.…
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Benn Steil is senior fellow and director of international economics, as well as the official historian in residence, at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. He is also the founding editor of International Finance, a scholarly economics journal; lead writer of the Council’s Geo-Graphics economics blog; and creator of four web-based interactives tracking Global Monetary Policy, Global…
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Scott Barrett is a leading scholar on transnational and global challenges, ranging from climate change to disease eradication. His research focuses on how institutions like customary law and treaties can be used to promote international cooperation.He has advised a number of international organizations, including the United Nations, the World Bank, the OECD, the European Commission, and the…
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Ngaire Woods is the founding Dean of the Blavatnik School of Government and Professor of Global Economic Governance at Oxford University. Her research focuses on how to enhance the governance of organisations, the challenges of globalisation, global development, and the role of international institutions and global economic governance. Previously, she founded the Global Economic Governance…
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Maria McKavanagh is the Chief Innovation Officer at Verv. With the aim of cutting carbon emissions, Verv unlocks unique energy insights from the home using an AI hub and is also bringing to life a peer-based green electricity sharing platform, based on blockchain. An advocate of women in tech, Maria has been nominated as one of the top 100 most influential women in UK tech for the past two years…
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