John Streur is President and Chief Executive Officer of Calvert Investments, Inc., a $13 billion investment management firm that specializes in responsible and sustainable investing across global capital markets. Calvert serves all types of investors through its family of mutual funds and separate accounts. John is also President and a Trustee of the Calvert Funds. Mr. Streur began to focus his…
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Klaus Deininger, is a Lead Economist in Agriculture and Rural Development unit of the Development Research Group at the World Bank. His areas of research focus on income and asset inequality and its relationship to poverty reduction and growth; access to land, land markets and land reform and their impact on household welfare and agricultural productivity; land tenure and its impact on investment…
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Dr. Arsenio M. Balisacan is Socioeconomic Planning Secretary and Director-General of the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA). In 2000-2001 and 2003, he was Undersecretary for Policy, Planning and Research of the Department of Agriculture (DA) and the country’s chief negotiator in the Agriculture Negotiations of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and in various bilateral agriculture…
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Winnie Byanyima is the Executive Director of UNAIDS and an Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations. A passionate and longstanding champion of social justice and gender equality, Ms Byanyima leads the United Nations’ efforts to end the AIDS epidemic by 2030. Ms Byanyima believes that health care is a human right and was an early champion of a People’s Vaccine against the coronavirus that is…
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Dr. Dao Trung Chính is the Deputy Director General, General Department of Land Administration (GDLA), MONRE in Vietnam. Dr. Chính is responsible for strategic planning to ensure effective and sustainable management of land resources. He participated in the development of the 2003 and 2013 Vietnam Land Law and is in charge of designing the implementation frame work (Decrees and Circulars),…
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Born in 1951 in Pozarevac. He received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees and a PhD at the Belgrade Faculty of Economics. He did his post-doctoral studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He worked as an assistant at the Institute of International Politics and Economics in Belgrade and as an assistant at the Belgrade Faculty of Economics, and then as an assistant professor and…
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Nigel is a product manager for Google’s Crisis Response team, which is changing how citizens stay informed during crises by providing information and tools to help people collaborate during emergencies and build resilient communities. Before joining Google in 2011, Nigel led R&D on humanitarian systems at Microsoft and spent several years at the United Nations helping lead pandemic…
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Andrew Zolli works at the intersection of global innovation, foresight, social change and resilience. He is the author of Resilience: Why Things Bounce Back and also serves as an advisor to Andrew to Planet Labs, Data Kind and the Garrison Institute. From 2003-2014 he was the creative and curatorial force behind PopTech, a renowned innovation and social change network. He has been a Fellow of the…
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Mr. Kashdan is a recognized authority on personality, well-being and social relationships. He has published more than 150 scholarly articles on how to foster and sustain happiness and meaning in life, strength use and development, stress and anxiety, mindfulness, gratitude, social relationships, and self-regulation. These contributions have been recognized through the receipt of early career…
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