Ms. Meg Kinnear is a Vice President of the World Bank Group and the Secretary-General of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID). As Secretary-General, she oversees a staff of 70 people, administering more than 300 investment arbitrations each year. Ms. Kinnear was formerly the Senior General Counsel and Director General of the Trade Law Bureau of Canada. In…
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Mr. Ethiopis Tafara is Vice President and Chief Risk, Legal and Administrative Officer for the World Bank Group’s Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA). He joined MIGA in September 2019 and is responsible for the supervision and oversight of MIGA’s Finance and Risk Management Group, the Economics & Sustainability Group and the Legal Affairs & Claims Group. He also oversees MIGA…
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Jorge Familiar, World Bank Vice President for Latin America and the Caribbean. As of May 1st, 2014, Mexican-born Jorge Familiar is the Vice President of the World Bank for Latin America and the Caribbean. He is the first Latin American to be appointed to that position in the last 30 years. Eradicating poverty and boosting shared prosperity through the creation of opportunities for all Latin…
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Ceri Lawley is IFC’s Chief Compliance Officer leading IFC’s Business Risk and Compliance Department (CBR). Ceri oversees the establishment of compliance standards and provision of advice to business teams, operational support teams, Management and the Board in two broad areas – 1. Risk in Business Transactions - integrity due diligence, AML/CFT, economic sanctions and international tax issues,…
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Mark Carney is currently the UN Special Envoy for Climate Action and Finance and UK Prime Minister Johnson’s Finance Adviser for COP26. Mark was previously Governor of the Bank of England (from 2013 to 2020), and Governor of the Bank of Canada (from 2008 to 2013). Internationally, Mark was Chair of the Financial Stability Board (from 2011 to 2018), he chaired the Global Economy Meeting and…
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Ms. Tami Dokken is the first Chief Data Privacy Officer at the World Bank, the world’s largest international development bank with 189 member countries and twin goals of ending extreme poverty and promoting shared prosperity. Ms. Dokken joined the World Bank in 2019 to develop and implement a first-of-its-kind privacy program to meet the requirements of the World Bank Group’s Policy on Personal…
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Professor Abhijit Banerjee was educated at the University of Calcutta, Jawaharlal Nehru University and Harvard University, where he received his Ph.D in 1988. He is currently the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2003 he founded the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), along with Esther Duflo and Sendhil Mullainathan…
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Sylvia Schmelkes is a Mexican sociologist and education researcher who currently is serving as the director of the Mexican National Institute of Educational Evaluation (INEE). She studied sociology at the Ibero-American University in Mexico City and obtained a Master's degree in Education Research by the same institution. She is best known for her work in intercultural education and her book…
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Chief Economist, Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office (FCDO) Expert on assessing cost-effectiveness of alternative interventions to reduce poverty, including in education. Researcher and policy advisor
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Nazneen Ahmed, is a senior research fellow at the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies . She has more than 20 years of experience as an economist working on international trade and development, gender and socioeconomic issues, agriculture, and the apparel industry. Ahmed was a member of the panel of economists for Bangladesh’s 7 th Five-Year Plan and is a member of the government’s Bangladesh NGO…
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