Lisa Stadelbauer (BA, University of Western Ontario, 1988) joined External Affairs and International Trade Canada in 1990. Her first assignment abroad was in 1992 to Tel Aviv, and she later served in Hanoi as Counselor, then in Oslo as Counselor and Consul. In Ottawa, she worked with the India, Bangladesh, Burma, Nepal and Bhutan Desk, the Middle East Peace Process Coordination Group and the…
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Scott Eisner is president of the U.S.-Africa Business Center at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. He is also an officer at the Chamber serving as vice president. Eisner represents the Chamber’s interests in Africa through its U.S.-Africa Business Center (USABC), the business community’s leading advocacy group aimed at strengthening U.S.-Africa trade relations. He directs the strategic activities of…
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Agnes Dasewicz, serves as Acting Director of the Office of Private Capital and Microenterprise (PCM) within the Bureau for Economic Growth, Education, and Environment (E3) of the U.S. Agency of International Development (USAID). Drawing on USAID’s presence and resources in developing countries, PCM works with investors and other U.S. government agencies, to catalyze greater investment in support…
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Klaus Tilmes, a German national, has been appointed the Global Practice Director for the Trade and Competitiveness Practice (T&C) of the World Bank Group, effective July 1, 2014. In his new capacity, Klaus is responsible for such global themes as Trade, Innovation, Technology and Entrepreneurship. He is leading the Strategy & Operations Group, and is in charge of two regions within T…
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Luis Porto is the Senior Advisor for Strategy and Organizational Development of the Organization of American States (OAS). He previously served as Vice Minister of Economy and Finance from August 2011 to April 2013, and as Deputy Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of Uruguay from May 2013 to March 1, 2015. He has worked as a senior consultant at both the national (in both the public and private…
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Aroldo Cedraz is President of the Federal Court of Accounts of Brazil (TCU) since 2015 and has served as Minister of the TCU in different roles since 2007. He has a doctorate in Veterinary Medicine from the Tierärztliche Hochschule, Hannover, a Master’s degree in Veterinary Medicine from the Federal University of Santa Maria, and a Bachelor’s degree in Veterinary Medicine from the Federal…
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Kevin Casas-Zamora is Senior Fellow and Director of the Peter D. Bell Rule of Law Program at the Inter-American Dialogue. He holds a law degree from the University of Costa Rica, a Master’s degree in Political Science from the University of Essex, and a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Oxford. He was previously Secretary for Political Affairs at the Organization of American…
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Ms. Quan Zheng is the AIIB’s Director General for Policy and Strategy since July 2016. Previously, she was Deputy Director General of the Department of International Economic and Financial Cooperation at the Ministry of Finance, China, with a portfolio including the AIIB, NDB and the G20 Investment and Infrastructure Working Group. She joined the Ministry of Finance in 1996, and has worked in…
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Indrajit Coomaraswamy born on April 03, 1953 had his early education at Royal College, Colombo and he completed his scholastic career at Harrow School. Subsequently, he obtained Bachelor of Art and Master’s Degrees from Cambridge University and his D Phil. Degree from the University of Sussex. Coomaraswamy joined the Central Bank of Sri Lanka in 1973 as a Staff Officer and served as such for 16…
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Kimberly Ann Elliott is a Senior Fellow with the Center for Global Development and the author or co-author of numerous books and articles on trade policy and globalization, economic sanctions, and food security. In 2009-10 she chaired the CGD working group that produced the report, Open Markets for the Poorest Countries: Trade Preferences that Work, and before that, authored the book Delivering…
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