Rodger Voorhies is the Executive Director of the Global Growth & Opportunity Division and a member of the Executive Leadership Team at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation reporting to the CEO. Rodger overseas the Agricultural Development, Financial Services for the Poor, Gender, and Water, Sanitation and Hygiene programs within the foundation with approximately $700 million in annual…
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Professor of International Education and Development, The Open University Expert in education systems in Africa, including on political economy of reform, teacher training and complementary basic education.
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Rachelle Akuffo is an anchor at Yahoo Finance, covering the latest market-moving news, closing bell action and financial news. This British-Ghanaian journalist is a former award-winning news anchor for CGTN America and host of its flagship magazine business show, Global Business America. Ms. Akuffo began her career as a radio journalist in England and went on to work as an anchor and reporter…
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As co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates shapes and approves foundation strategies, advocates for the foundation’s issues, and sets the organization’s overall direction. He works with grantees and partners to further the foundation’s goal of improving equity in the United States and around the world. Bill co-founded Microsoft Corporation in 1975 with Paul Allen and led…
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Her Majesty Queen Máxima of the Netherlands, has served as the UN Secretary-General’s Special Advocate for Inclusive Finance for Development (UNSGSA) since 2009, as a leading global voice in advancing universal access to affordable, effective, and safe financial services. She emphasizes that financial inclusion accelerates progress toward numerous development and economic goals including poverty…
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Carmen M. Reinhart, is the Former Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank Group. Assuming this role on June 15, 2020, Reinhart provided thought leadership for the institution at an unprecedented time of crisis. She also managed the Bank’s Development Economics Department. Reinhart’s areas of expertise are in international finance, and macroeconomics. Her work has helped to inform the…
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Nada Hamadeh is a Manager at the World Bank Development Data Group. She manages flagship data public goods, including the classification of countries by income, the International Debt Statistics series, and the World Development Indicators economic series. Nada also leads the International Comparison Program global partnership, which produces indicators to compare the size of economies and their…
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Sheila Redzepi is Vice President for External and Corporate Relations at the World Bank Group. Sheila oversees all aspects of communications and public affairs in support of the Bank’s mission to end extreme poverty and boost shared prosperity. She also manages the Bank Group’s strategic presence in donor countries, and oversees its multilateral engagements. In this role, Sheila advises the…
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Maximo Torero Cullen is the Chief Economist of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). He joined the Organization in January 2019 as Assistant Director-General for the Economic and Social Development Department. Prior to joining FAO, he was the World Bank Group Executive Director for Argentina, Bolivia, Chile Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay since November 2016 and before the Bank Mr. Torero led…
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Annette Dixon was the World Bank Group Human Resources Vice President. As the WBG supports its clients to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic and pursue green, resilient and inclusive development, Annette leads the Human Resources function of the WBG to attract, develop, engage and deploy top talent, building the WBGs brand as the employer of choice in development, with a diverse and inclusive…
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