Mr. Wang Shaofeng is a member of the senior management of CTGI, overseeing corporate strategy and international business development – he is also the Secretary of the Party Committee for CTGI, in addition to being the Chairman of the Board of CSAIL. He has been the main counterpart of IFC at CTGC Group since inception of the relationship and actively supports and promotes collaboration with IFC.…
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Leila Janah is the Founder and CEO of Samasource and LXMI , two companies that go beyond charity to # givework to low-income people around the world using cutting-edge social enterprise models in technology and luxury skincare, respectively. She is the author of Give Work: Reversing Poverty One Job at a Time , released by Penguin Portfolio in September 2017. Prior to that, Ms Janah was a…
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Martin Wolf is Associate Editor and Chief Economics Commentator at the Financial Times , London. He was awarded the CBE (Commander of the British Empire) in 2000 for services to financial journalism. Martin started his career as a Young Professional at the World Bank in 1971, subsequently becoming Senior Economist in the India Division in 1974 and working on the core team of the first World…
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Shawn Westfall is the CEO and founder of Commedia Partners, which provides on-site corporate events that unleash the fun, power and tools of improvisational comedy to help foment creativity, build camaraderie, enhance communication skills, create and cement teams, and allow organizations to re-envision themselves and their people. He's brought improv as a strategy for fostering creativity,…
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Michele Fowiin has been an accomplished musician for over 40 years. At the age of 9, Ms. Fowlin was accepted into the Julliard School’s pre-college program, in piano, for aspiring young musicians. She won a variety of piano competitions and awards and participated in many festivals both nationally and internationally. Her musical pursuits eventually led her to focusing on the voice and conducting…
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Kavya Kopparapu is a passionate AI Thought leader, accomplished innovator, social entrepreneur, and a rising Freshman at Harvard. As the Founder of her nonprofit GirlsComputingLeague, she was invited to present at the White House. She helped raise $175,000 to the Children Science center 5 years ago. She further partnered with the White House and DC Public schools to teach coding to 3800 students…
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Nora Bannerman-Abbott (Nora Bannerman) is an accomplished fashion designer and business entrepreneur with over thirty-eight years (38) of experience promoting indigenous business and successfully managing a number of companies. Her rich experience in trade policy negotiations, business enterprise development, an understanding of the local business environment coupled with her extensive experience…
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Nick Martin is an educator, technologist, and social entrepreneur. He is the founder and CEO of TechChange, a Washington DC-based social enterprise that builds beautiful online courses on topics that matter. Nick is a PopTech Social Innovation Fellow (2013), and an International Youth Foundation Global Fellow (2009). He is also an adjunct faculty member at Georgetown and Columbia Universities…
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Maria Thomas is a consumer Internet pioneer who has helped build some of the most recognizable brands in the digital landscape. She's the former CEO of Etsy (NASDAQ: Etsy) and the former CCO at SmartThings (acquired by Samsung, 2014). In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Maria was a product leader at Amazon.com. Subsequently, she was the driving force behind NPR’s successful transformation from a…
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Oscar Edmundo has devoted his entire career to urban planning and transportation in areas such as road safety, urban planning, public transport and currently serves as Special Advisor to the Mayor of Bogota, Colombia. He is an internationally recognized expert for his participation and contribution to innovative projects on five continents. He has managed projects implementing BRT systems (Bus…
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