HawaH is an yoga instructor, artist, author, educator, and non-profit leader. He tours internationally facilitating interactive workshops, retreats, performing poetry, and teaching yoga. Hawah has been teaching yoga for 17 years and has studied in various traditions including Sivananda, Iyengar, Jivamukti, and Ashtanga. In addition to his teaching, Hawah has authored 4 books, produced 3…
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Rachel Goslins is the Director of the Arts & Industries Building at the Smithsonian Institution. She is responsible for all aspects of developing and implementing plans to re-open the building to the public, after being closed for almost 14 years, as a space to explore creativity, innovation and the future. Prior to that, she served as Executive Director of the President's Committee on the…
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Paulo has 21 years’ experience in the natural resources, industrial and infrastructure sectors, with exposure to different business functions and geographies. He has a successful history in corporate turnarounds, mega capital project management, stakeholder and government relations, as well as operations safety improvement. In March 2017, he joined EGA (Emirates Global Aluminium) as Chief…
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Ambassador Norman Eisen is a senior fellow in Governance Studies at Brookings, a CNN political commentator, and the chair of the government watchdog group CREW, which he co-founded in 2003. Eisen served from 2009 to 2011 in the White House as special counsel and special assistant to the president for ethics and government reform. Following his White House service, Eisen was the U.S. Ambassador to…
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Veronica Nyhan Jones is Global Head of Advisory Services for Infrastructure & Natural Resources at IFC. Her team helps companies share value through delivery of tangible benefits to local stakeholders in emerging markets. She advises clients to operate sustainably in changing environments due to shifts in demographics, and innovations in technology and communications. Veronica incubated IFC's…
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Alan Heston is Professor Emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania. He did his BA, MA and Ph.D. from the Universities of Oregon, Washington and Yale. He joined Penn in 1962 and retired in 2003, with time in the United Nations, India and Pakistan. Along with Irving Kravis and Robert Summers, he founded the International Comparison Program (ICP) in 1968. In 1998, he was designated along with…
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Robert M. Groves is the Gerard J. Campbell, S.J. Professor in the math and statistics department as well as the sociology department at Georgetown University where he has served as the Executive Vice President and Provost since 2012. Groves is a social statistician who studies the impact of social cognitive and behavioral influences on the quality of statistical information. His research has…
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Lanre Kolade has been the Group Chief Executive Officer for CSquared since November 2018. He has over 21 years of experience in the telecommunications industry spanning both Francophone and Anglophone Africa. Before joining CSquared, he was Managing Director of Vodacom Business in Nigeria. He also previously served as Managing Director of Vodacom Business for the West, East, Central, & South-…
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Njuguna S. Ndung'u is the Executive Director of the African Economic Research Consortium based in Kenya. Before joining AERC,, he held the position of Kenya's Central Bank Governor, from 2007 until March 2015. He holds a PhD in economics from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and master's and bachelor's degrees in economics from the University of Nairobi. Prior to his appointment as Governor of the Central Bank of Kenya, Prof. Ndung'u held positions at the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), the University…
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Adam Storeygard joined Tufts after receiving his Ph.D. from Brown University. His research interests are in development and urban economics, and particularly in urbanization, transportation, and the economic geography of sub-Saharan Africa. Much of his work uses geographic data, including satellite data. Professor Storeygard's work has appeared in journals including the American Economic Review…
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