Dr. Yansane was appointed State Minister of Mining and Geology in January 2014. Previously he was the Minister of Economy and Finance as well as a Former Governor, Central Bank of Guinea, Conakry (1986-1996). Before his appointment as Minister of finance in 2010, Dr Yansane was a Development Consultant with a number of international and regional institutions, including the World Bank, the…
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Richard Morgan is an International Government Relations Advisor for Anglo American (2010). He began his career at the British Embassy in Tokyo as a Commercial officer (1986-1990). Later he held a position at the Communications/Media team at the FCO in London (1990-95), followed by working as First Secretary at the British High Commission, South Africa (1995-2000) and in the Middle East and North…
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Cyprian Chitundu has served since October 2011 as managing director of ZESCO Limited, a power utility company operating under the supervision of the Ministry of Mines, Energy and Water Development in Zambia, Central Africa. Cyprian has extensive experience in engineering and management. In Zambia, he has worked at Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines, Kariba North Bank Company Limited and ZESCO…
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Born in Curitiba, David received a strong education in Jewish values and traditions from his family and as a student at a faith-based school, where he participated in weekly group activities and camps. Exploring the possibility of living in Israel, after turning 18, he spent a year on a kibbutz with a group of forty young Brazilian Jews. There he began working in a kitchen. During this eye-…
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Deborah Amos covers the Middle East for NPR News. Her reports can be heard on NPR's award-winning Morning Edition, All Things Considered and Weekend Edition. In 2003, Amos returned to NPR after a decade in television news, including ABC's Nightline and World News Tonight and the PBS programs NOW with Bill Moyers and Frontline. A member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Amos is also the author…
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Raghuram Rajan is the Katherine Dusak Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at Chicago Booth. He was the 23rd Governor of the Reserve Bank of India between September 2013 and September 2016. Between 2003 and 2006, Dr. Rajan was the Chief Economist and Director of Research at the International Monetary Fund. Dr. Rajan’s research interests are in banking, corporate finance, and economic…
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Dr. Luis Miguel Castilla was appointed Ambassador of Peru to the United States on February 01 2015 by President Ollanta Humala. He had served as Minister of Economy and Finance of Peru from July 2011 to September 2014. During the past 3 years, Peru's credit ratings were upgraded by all major credit rating agencies (classified as the second highest investment rated country in Latin America). Prior…
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Prior to joining UNICEF in May 2016, Mr. Forsyth served as Chief Executive Officer of Save the Children UK. From 2004 to 2010, as Special Adviser to UK Prime Ministers Gordon Brown and Tony Blair, Mr. Forsyth helped shape global efforts on development, climate change and humanitarian policies, including leading successful efforts around G8s and G20s. Prior to this, he worked for Oxfam from 1989…
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Jim Carlton is a senior special writer for the Wall Street Journal in San Francisco. As an environmental writer for the past several years covering issues related to the West Coast, he has written extensively about the region's chronic droughts including the one now ravaging California. He is also a former computer industry writer for the Journal and author of the book "Apple: The Inside Story of…
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Mr. Leonard Nxumalo is the Chief Executive Officer of the Water Utilities Corporation (WUC) in Botswana. He is responsible for the successful leadership and management of the Corporation in the supply of water and wastewater services in both the urban and rural villages across the whole country. Mr. Nxumalo joined WUC in 2014 at a critical period when the Corporation is undergoing major…
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