Ms. Aiko Doden is NHK Senior Commentator on International Affairs, and Senior Producer for “NEWSROOM Tokyo” on NHK World TV. She has expertise in reporting on a wide range of global issues from hard security to human security. As commentator she covers SE Asia with a focus on Myanmar and Thailand, US Japan relations and Japan’s Foreign Policy. Ms Doden comments on developmental affairs with a…
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Sergio Jellinek oversees the Bank's communications for Latin America and the Caribbean. He is a founder of the COM+ Alliance, a partnership of international organizations and communications professionals. He has extensive experience in developing countries, both as a working journalist and as an adviser to international organizations.
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Jane E. Fountain is Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Public Policy and Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is the founder and director of the National Center for Digital Government, established in 2002 with support from the National Science Foundation. She has been Chair, Vice Chair and is a continuing member of the World Economic…
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Dr. Naoko Ishii is the CEO and Chairperson of the Global Environment Facility (GEF), an independently operating financial organization that provides grants for projects related to the global environment. Dr. Ishii was unanimously selected by the GEF Council in June 2012 and took office on August 1. Prior to becoming the fourth CEO and Chairperson of the GEF, Dr. Ishii, as Deputy Vice Minister of…
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Ede Jorge Ijjász Vásquez is the Senior Director for the new Social, Urban, Rural and Resilience Global Practice at the World Bank Group. He assumed this position on July 1, 2014, under a stronger institutional structure focused on ending extreme poverty by 2030 and boosting shared prosperity for the bottom 40 percent. As senior director, Mr. Ijjász will lead a team of over 600 technical experts…
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Tony Williams, the former Mayor of Washington, D.C. (1999 – 2007), is the current Chief Executive Officer of the Federal City Council, an organization focusing the creative and administrative talents of Washington’s business and professional leaders on major problems and opportunities facing the District. He is widely credited with leading the comeback of Washington D.C. during his two terms as…
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Avinash Dixit is John J. F. Sherrerd ’52 University Professor of Economics Emeritus at Princeton University. He is also a Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Economics at Lingnan University, Hong Kong, and a Senior Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford. His research interests have included microeconomic theory, game theory, international trade, industrial organization, growth and development…
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Loïc Chiquier is the World Bank Group’s Chief Technical Specialist on Finance and Markets, in which capacity he holds the primary responsibility for global partnership engagement on a range of high-priority issues for growth such as housing finance, infrastructure finance, disaster risk management or financial inclusion. Previously, he served as the Director for the World Bank Group’s Global…
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Maura Misiti is co-author with Serena Dandini of Ferite a morte (Wounded to Death), a collection of monologues of women victims of gender based violence around the world. Ms. Misiti is Demographer and Senior Researcher at the Institute for Research on Population and Social Policies of the National Council of Research in Italy. She was a Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University…
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