Manuel Contreras is Senior Leadership Development Specialist in the Collaborative Leadership for Development program at the World Bank Group (WBG), where he helped develop the Leadership for Development curricula and pedagogy, and is the program-lead of the Adaptive Leadership module. He has worked with reform teams from the Balkans, South Africa, Ghana and South East Asia. Prior to the WBG,…
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Rabeson Rolland Justet is the General Secretary of the Ministry of National Education of The Republic of Madagascar. As a computer engineer and economist, he has an extensive background in technology, IT and in the area of communication (for seven years). He has promoted education and has a wide experience in education planning, budgeting and statistics. He previously served as Director of…
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Helene Davis Whyte is Vice-President of the Jamaica Confederation of Trade Unions. Helene is a Jamaican trade union activist and the general secretary of the Jamaica Association of Local Government Officers (JALGO), which represents 5,000 workers in local and national government and quasi-government agencies in Jamaica. During her tenure as union leader, Davis-Whyte has pushed for reorganization…
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Neil Levine is Co-Chair of the Effective Institution Platform Project, and Director of the Center for Excellence on Democracy, Rights and Governance within the Bureau of Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance at US Agency for International Development (USAID). Neil has returned to USAID from an assignment as Assistant Professor of Strategic Leadership at the National Defense University…
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Heather Marquette is Director of the Developmental Leadership Program (DLP) and Reader in Development Politics at the University of Birmingham (UK). A political scientist by training, she has extensive international experience in research, policy advice, consultancy and training on the politics of development, governance, corruption, political analysis, and aid policy. Her work has been published…
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Laurence Carter is the Senior Director of the Public-Private Partnerships Group of the World Bank Group. The PPP Group advises on the strategic direction and goals for the WBG on PPPs, supports coordination across the WBG, promotes partnerships and facilitates global knowledge about PPPs. Previously, he ran International Finance Corporation’s (IFC) PPP Transaction Advisory Department for six…
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Steve Waddell is Principal at Networking Action: Organizing for the 21st Century. He believes that responding to the 21st century’s enormous global challenges and realizing its unsurpassed opportunities require new ways of acting and organizing. Networking Action is his personal vehicle to support organizational, network, and societal change and development, through consultation, education,…
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Dr. Kent Weaver is Professor of Public Policy, Public Policy Institute at Georgetown University. His major fields of interest are American and comparative social policy, comparative political institutions, and the politics of expertise. He is particularly interested in understanding how political institutions, past policy choices and the motivations of politicians interact to shape public policy…
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Francis Fukuyama is Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at Stanford University's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI), Mosbacher Director of FSI's Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (CDDRL), and Director of Stanford's Master's in International Policy Program. He is also professor (by courtesy) of Political Science. Dr. Fukuyama has written widely on…
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Ronald Heifetz founded Harvard’s Center for Public Leadership where he is the King Hussein bin Talal Senior Lecturer in Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School. He speaks extensively and advises heads of governments, businesses, and nonprofit organizations throughout the world. He co-developed the adaptive framework of leadership practice. His research focuses on building the adaptive…
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