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David Katz
David Katz is the founder and CEO of The Plastic Bank. He is globally renowned for The Plastic Bank’s solution to make plastic waste a currency that transcends poverty while stopping the flow of plastic into our oceans. David has been named one of the world’s most compassionate entrepreneurs. He is the recipient of the United Nations Lighthouse Award for Planetary Health and of the Paris Climate…
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Peter Thomson
Peter Thomson is a Fijian diplomat who served as President of the General Assembly of the United Nations from September 2016 until September 2017. He was Fiji’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations between 2010 and 2016. For the year 2014, he was elected President of the Executive Board of the United Nations Development Programme, the United Nations Population Fund and the United…
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Roberta Barbieri
Roberta Barbieri is PepsiCo’s Vice President for Global Sustainability with over 20 years of experience in environmental sustainability. In her role with PepsiCo, Roberta is accountable for executing PepsiCo’s Performance with Purpose sustainability strategy, with specific responsibility for integration of sustainability into core business processes, and for delivery of PepsiCo’s goals on Climate…
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Alejandra Bravo Hidalgo
Alejandra Bravo Hidalgo currently serves in the Cabinet of the President of the Republic of Chile, Mr. Sebastián Piñera Echenique, as Undersecretary of the Ministry of National Assets. From this position she leads the National Plan for the Regularization of the Small Fiscal, Indigenous and Agricultural Root Property "Chile Propietario", through which Domain Titles are delivered that allow…
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Carlos Urzúa
Carlos Urzúa is the Secretary of Finance and Public Credit of Mexico. He served as Secretary of Finance of the government of Mexico City from 2000-2003 and founded the Graduate School of Public Administration at Tecnológico de Monterrey, which he directed from 2003-2013. He was previously a professor-researcher at El Colegio de México from 1989-2000 and was a visiting professor in various…
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Melinda Crane
Melinda Crane has given speeches and moderated events and discussions for a wide range of international organizations and firms. She is a frequent guest and commentator on German television and radio and regularly analyzes U.S. policy for the news broadcaster n-tv. An experienced TV anchor, she is chief political correspondent at DW TV and also hosts the DW talk show “Quadriga”. In 2014 she was…
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Shalini Roy
Shalini Roy is a Research Fellow in the Poverty, Health, and Nutrition Division (PHND) of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). Her research focuses on households’ economic behavior related to social protection, nutrition, agriculture, gender, and early childhood development. Much of her work is based on impact evaluations of development programming in these areas, with a…
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Diarietou Gaye
  Diariétou Gaye, a Senegalese national, is the World Bank Director of Strategy and Operations for the Africa region. In this position, Ms. Gaye supports the Vice President in setting strategy and work programs across all sectors for the World Bank’s Africa region. The Vice Presidency oversees a portfolio of more than 600 projects totaling more than $70 billion and comprises a workforce of over…
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Claudia Garcia-Moreno
Dr García-Moreno is the founder and a Coordinating Group member of the Sexual Violence Research Initiative. She leads the World Health Organization's violence against women work, including research and evidence building, measurement and global monitoring, development of guidelines and tools on prevention and response and support to countries to strengthen the health sector response, including in…
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Paul Mayewski
Paul Mayewski is an internationally acclaimed glaciologist, climate scientist, and polar explorer, and is director and a professor in the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute. He has led over 55 expeditions to Antarctica, Greenland, the Himalaya, the Andes, and the sub-Antarctic Islands. Mayewski has also made numerous first ascents in the Transantarctic Mountains and has traversed more…
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