Jacob Jusu Saffa is Minister of Finance of Sierra Leone as of April 12, 2018. He was a member of a Transition Team set up by President Bio to conduct a stock taking exercise of the state of affairs of Government Ministries, Department and Agencies. He was the Team Lead for the Finance and Economic Development Pillar under the Transition Team. Mr. Saffa started his career as a Development Planning…
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Banlieuz'art is a Guinean music group made up of two members, Konko Malela and King Salaman. They modernize the local traditional sound making it accessible to new listeners by infusing it with hip hop, reggae, dancehall, and RNB flavors. They have been influenced by classics such as the Bembeya Jazz, Bob Marley, Morgan Heritage, and Fugees, and their music aims to depict the daily realities in…
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Ulla Tørnæs has a degree in Business Administration in English and French from Copenhagen Business School. University-level studies in Chambéry, France, and at the Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen. Minister for Development Cooperation since November 2016. Minister for Higher Education and Science from February to November 2016. Minister for Development Cooperation from 2005 to 2010.…
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Roula Khalaf is Deputy Editor of the Financial Times. She has worked for the FT since 1995, first as North Africa correspondent, then Middle East correspondent and most recently as Middle East editor. Before joining the FT, she was a staff writer for Forbes magazine in New York. Roula oversees the FT’s network of foreign correspondents and bureaus. She writes regularly on global politics and…
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The passionate and motivated, Erica Armah-Bra Bulu Tandoh or DJ Switch Ghana, as she is more popularly known, has caught the attention of so many including DJ Khaled and Wyclef Jean, at just 13 years of age. At the age of nine, with no previous experience with a turntable, she suddenly found herself learning to use one. Her motivation and dedication to her work is unmatched, then and now.…
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Win Win Tint is an award-winning Myanmar businesswoman. Win Win, at the age of just 21, assumed the management of City Mart Holding Company Limited (CMHL), a recently-formed family company. At that time, CMHL operated just a single supermarket in central Yangon. Despite facing difficult economic and political conditions, Win Win built the business into the leading modern retail company in Myanmar…
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Dr. Pate, a U.S. and Nigerian national, was until recently the Chief Executive Officer of Big Win Philanthropy, based in the UK, and prior to that held several senior positions, including that of Minister of State for Health in the Federal Republic of Nigeria. He was previously in the World Bank Group where he joined as a Young Professional in 2000 and worked on health issues in several regions…
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Karim El Aynaoui is the President of the Policy Center for the New South. He is also the Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences and Executive Vice-President of the Mohammed VI Polytechnic University. From 2005 to 2012, he worked at the Central Bank of Morocco as the Director of Economics, Statistics and International Relations. Prior to this, he served as an economist at the World…
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Since November 2014, Imad N. Fakhoury serves as a Senator in Jordanian Parliament and Chairperson of King Abdullah II Fund for Development. From 2011 to 2014, he served as Chief of Staff/Director of Office of His Majesty King Abdullah II at the Royal Hashemite Court. Between 2009 and 2011, he served as Minister of Public Sector Development and Minister of State for Mega Projects. He also chaired…
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Ms. Melinda Gates is co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Along with Bill, she shapes and approves the foundation’s strategy, reviews results, and sets the overall direction of the organization. Together, they meet with grantees and partners to further the foundation’s goal of improving equity in the United States and around the world. Through her work at the foundation over the…
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