Volker Türk is UNHCR’s Assistant High Commissioner for Protection, having previously served as the Director of the Division of International Protection from September 2009 to February 2015. From April 2008 to September 2009, he was Director for Organizational Development and Management in Geneva, leading UNHCR’s structural and management change process. From 1991 to March 2008, he occupied…
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Anne Kabagambe serves as the Alternate Executive Director for Africa Group 1 at the World Bank Group, Washington DC. She is an international development and finance professional who prior to this appointment served for 27 years at the African Development Bank, ending her career as Chef de Cabinet . Ms. Kabagambe holds two Masters’ Degrees from Columbia University in New York City, and the…
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As the Country Director of SEND GHANA Mr. George Osei-Bimpeh is responsible for running all facets of the organisation. George has a proven executive management track record and over 12 years of experience in research and civil society activism, driving growth in the programmatic areas, funding base and policy influencing space. George was appointed the Country Director of SEND-GHANA in February…
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Juan Pablo Guerrero is the Network Director of the Global Initiative for Fiscal Transparency , a multi-stakeholder action network to advance fiscal transparency, public participation and accountability in countries around the world. He was a founding Commissioner of the Federal Institute for Access to Information & Data Protection in Mexico (2002-2009), where he subsequently was the Secretary…
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Jessica Goldberg is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland and an Affiliate of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab and the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD). Her research interests are in development and labor economics. Currently, she is working on field experiments about credit and savings in Malawi and Bangladesh, the effect of…
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Alice Evans researches how to improve workers’ rights in global production networks. She is currently writing a book on “Corporate Accountability: Causes and Consequences” (OUP). This examines: why some countries have made businesses liable for abuses in their global supply chains; the impact of such legislation; and the pathways to multilateral regulation. Through this comparative study, Alice…
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Seema Jayachandran is a Professor in the Department of Economics at Northwestern University. Her work focuses on economic issues in developing countries. Her work explores the determinants of children’s health and education; the environment; gender equality; labor markets; and political economy. She is a recipient of a Sloan Research Fellowship and a National Science Foundation Early Career…
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Before taking on her current position, Deborah Wetzel served as Strategy and Operations Director for the Middle East and North Africa Region and prior to that served as Country Director for Brazil. Ms. Wetzel was Chief of Staff to the World Bank President from 2010 to 2012. She has also served as Director for Governance and Public Sector, directing the Bank's work on taxation, public expenditures…
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Patricia Moreira was appointed as Managing Director of the International Secretariat of Transparency International in October 2017. She is Spanish-Brazilian and has worked for more than a decade promoting social impact and innovation in a global environment. For the past 14 years, she worked at Ayuda en Acción, a Spanish aid organisation operating in 20 countries around the world. She became the…
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