Mr. Terkper was born in Somanya in the Eastern Region of Ghana, where he started his Elementary School education in the Presby cluster of schools. He obtained his first degree in Bachelor of Commerce (B.Comm.) from the University of Cape Coast (UCC) in Ghana. He is also a Chartered Accountant who holds a Master of Public Administration (MPA) degree from the Kennedy School, Harvard University. As…
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First Lady Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama is a lawyer, writer, and the wife of the 44th and current President, Barack Obama. She is the first African-American First Lady of the United States. Through her four main initiatives, she has become a role model for women and an advocate for healthy families, service members and their families, higher education, and international adolescent girls…
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Mr. Helder Lopes was sworn in as the Vice-Minister of Finance in the VI Constitutional Government of Timor-Leste on February 16, 2015. Mr. Lopes graduated from the Universidade Nacional Timor Lorosa’e (UNTL) in 2007 with a Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Economics degree. He received his Master of Science in Agricultural Economics degree from the Michigan State University (MSU) in the US in…
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Kevin J. Delaney is editor in chief and president of Quartz, the global business news site from Atlantic Media at qz.com. Delaney was a reporter at The Wall Street Journal for a decade, with that time split between postings in Paris and San Francisco. While covering internet companies such as Google, Twitter, and Facebook for the Journal, he became convinced that newspapers could do much more to…
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Natalie A. Jaresko was appointed the Minister of Finance of Ukraine by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on December 2, 2014. Prior to that, she was one of the co-founders and Chief Executive Officer of Horizon Capital, a fund manager with over $600 million under management. Simultaneously, Ms. Jaresko served as President and Chief Executive Officer of WNISEF, a position which she has held since…
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Catherine McKenna practiced competition and international trade law in Canada and Indonesia and was senior negotiator with the United Nations Peacekeeping Mission in East Timor. She also served as senior advisor on the former Chief Justice Antonio Lamer’s review of Canada’s military justice system. Catherine co-founded Canadian Lawyers Abroad, a charitable organization that works in developing…
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Marcel Fratzscher is President of DIW Berlin, one of the leading economic research institutes and think tanks in Europe, and Professor of Macroeconomics and Finance at Humboldt-University Berlin. His prior professional experience includes work as Head of the International Policy Analysis at the European Central Bank (ECB), where he worked from 2001 to 2012; the Peterson Institute for…
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Ursula Müller is the German Executive Director to the Board of Executive Directors at the World Bank Group. Most recently she served as head of the Directorate General for Policy Issues and Political Governance of Bilateral Development Cooperation in the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development. In addition, Ursula has enjoyed a career with the German Federal Foreign…
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John Prideaux joined The Economist as Political Correspondent in 2004. Prior to this he wrote for The Economist, the Financial Times and the New Statesman as a freelancer, and worked as a researcher in the House of Commons and the European Parliament. In addition to covering British politics, he has spent time as India Correspondent in Delhi and Finance Correspondent in London. In 2007 he was…
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Cindy Mi is the founder and CEO of VIPKID, an education technology company that connects K‐8 students in China with teachers in North America for online English immersion. Founded in 2013, VIPKID has become one of China’s leading education startups, growing 40% month over month and attracting investments from Northern Light Venture Capital, Innovation Works, Matrix Partners, and Sequoia Capital.…
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