Geoff Haines-Stiles is a producer, director and writer of science documentaries and broadcast specials. He was a Senior Producer and Series Director on Carl Sagan’s classic Emmy-winning COSMOS series, now seen by close to a billion people worldwide, produced and wrote NOVA’s “Is Anybody Out There?” with comedian Lily Tomlin, and worked with then-Senator Al Gore on what was to be the “Earth in the…
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Seema Jalan is the Executive Director of the Universal Access Project at the United Nations Foundation, a multi-stakeholder initiative of foundations and NGOs working to strengthen U.S. leadership on international family planning and reproductive health. Seema comes to the UN Foundation from Women Thrive Worldwide with almost 15 years of experience on women’s human rights. At Women Thrive…
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As Senior Director for Gender, Population and Development, Dr. Suzanne Petroni leads ICRW’s work to improve development programs and policies by expanding the evidence base regarding the relationships between gender, sexual and reproductive health and rights, adolescence and demographic and socioeconomic outcomes. She has nearly 25 years of experience in foreign policy and global development.…
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As Executive Director, Lakshmi Sundaram is responsible for ensuring that Girls Not Brides delivers on its strategy and advances our collective efforts to end child marriage. Since joining Girls Not Brides in 2012, Lakshmi has taken the Partnership from a special project of The Elders to an independent legal organisation, and overseen its expansion to more than 700 members. She is particularly…
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Dr. Puente de la Mora is a Mexican lawyer, academic and researcher. From the May 2014, she assumed the duties of President Commissioner of the Federal Institute for Access to Information and Data Protection in Mexico. She is a teacher in legal science, and holds a doctorate in law.
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Ede Ijjasz-Vasquez is the Senior Director for the World Bank Group’s Social, Urban, Rural and Resilience Global Practice. In this position, Mr. Ijjasz-Vasquez leads a team of over 600 technical experts deployed across the world, leveraging global knowledge and collaborating with partners to help tackle the world’s most complex development challenges in: social inclusion and sustainability;…
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Caroline Mozhendi is currently Head of Agribusiness at Econet Services (Zimbabwe). The Agribusiness unit currently leads all mobile service overlay initiatives in connecting farmers through their mobile phones. A holder of a B.Comm (Hons) Marketing Management degree and an MBA from Nottingham University, Caroline has experience leading various NGO, donor funded and public sector agriculture…
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Aupa has been with the bank for 12 years, during which he has held various senior roles, including that of Chief Operations Officer and interim Managing Director for Barclays Botswana for two years. In his most recent role, he has successfully led innovation initiatives in West Africa (Ghana), where the bank worked with a FinTech to build a banking platform on Blockchain to drive financial…
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Howard is a senior consultant working on financial inclusion with Nathan Associates, based in India. He is particularly interested in rural finance, fintech and the role of data in financial inclusion.
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Ashwini is head of products and marketing for Janalakshmi Financial Services, India’s largest urban microfinance institution serving over 4 million urban customers. Janalakshmi began as a microcredit organization and is in the process of transforming into a full-service small finance bank to provide a wider range of offerings to low-income customers.
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