Professor Sir David King was appointed as the UK Foreign Secretary’s Special Representative for Climate Change (full-time) in September 2013. Sir David was previously the Government’s Chief Scientific Advisor from 2000 to 2007, working with Prime Ministers Blair and Brown, during which time he raised awareness of the need for governments to act on climate change and was instrumental in creating…
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Jörgen Weibull is professor at the Stockholm School of Economics. He is also affiliated with the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, and with the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse. His main field of research is non-cooperative and evolutionary game theory, with applications to economics, political science, and evolutionary biology. He is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of…
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Cass R. Sunstein is currently the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard. From 2009 to 2012, he was Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. He is the founder and director of the Program on Behavioral Economics and Public Policy at Harvard Law School. Mr. Sunstein has testified before congressional committees on many subjects, and he has been…
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Guillermo Calvo is Professor of Economics, International and Public Affairs, and Director of the Program in Economic Policy Management (PEPM) at Columbia University. . He is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). He is the former Chief Economist of the Inter-American Development Bank (2001-2006), President of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association…
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Kenneth Arrow is the Joan Kenney Professor of Economics and Professor of Operations Research, emeritus; a CHP/PCOR fellow; and an FSI senior fellow by courtesy. He is a Nobel Prize-winning economist whose work has been primarily in economic theory and operations, focusing on areas including social choice theory, risk bearing, medical economics, general equilibrium analysis, inventory theory, and…
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J. Stephen Morrison is senior vice president at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and director of its Global Health Policy Center. Dr. Morrison writes widely, has directed several high-level commissions, and is a frequent commentator on U.S. foreign policy, global health, Africa, and foreign assistance. He served in the Clinton administration, as committee staff in the…
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Rakiatou Christelle Kaffa Jackou is Minister for population, Republic of Niger. She studied mathematics and physics at the University of Niamey and obtained a Master in Physics. She attended the Ecole Africaine de la Météorologie et de l'Aviation Civile (EAMAC) in Niamey and graduated with a Diplôme d'études supérieures spécialisées in Engineering. She joined the management team of the airport…
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Rich Braaten is the Global Faculty Director for the Crotonville Customer Education at the General Electric Company. Partnering with GE businesses, he delivers Crotonville leadership learning to strategic customers, both at Crotonville and at regional sites. Previously, he was a member of the corporate commercial learning and development organization, where he worked as the Commercial Learning…
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Wiebke Koenig is Head of the Global Leadership Academy (GLA), Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development. The GLA provides decision-makers from all areas of society with an opportunity to discover new solutions to global challenges and develop innovative approaches in their spheres of influence.…
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