Halsey Rogers is Lead Economist with the World Bank’s Education Global Practice and served as Co-Director of the World Development Report 2018: Learning to Realize Education’s Promise . He now helps lead initiatives that advance the WDR vision, including the global Learning Poverty estimates and the Global Education Policy Dashboard. In the past, he represented the Bank in SDG negotiations on…
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Catherine Russell serves as UNICEF’s 8th Executive Director, overseeing the organization’s work for children in over 190 countries and territories. Ms. Russell brings to the role decades of experience in public service, with a focus on empowering underserved communities around the world and developing high-impact policies and programmes to support women and girls, including in humanitarian crises…
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Paul Blake is an External Affairs Officer at the World Bank, where he helps design, produce, host, film, and edit several digital podcasts, video series, data visualizations, and other multimedia products. Previously, he worked as a journalist for several outlets, including BBC News and ABC News (US), which allowed him to travel and report across North America, in Latin America and the Caribbean…
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Former Treasury Secretary, , Lawrence H. Summers is one of America’s leading economists. In addition to serving as 71st Treasury Secretary 71st Secretary of the Treasury in the Clinton Administration, Dr. Summers served as White House National Economic Council Director of the White House National Economic Council in the Obama Administration, as President of Harvard University President of Harvard University , and as…
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Jeanine Cooper was commissioned as Liberia’s Minister of Agriculture in February, 2020. Since then, Minister Cooper has re-oriented the Ministry of Agriculture to focus on agri-business, partnerships, and coordination. She has formulated -and is implementing- a food systems approach with heavy focus on expanding food production, boosting agro-processing, supporting livelihoods, and improving…
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Mamta started as Vice President for Human Development at the World Bank on July 1, 2020. In this role she oversees the Global Practices for Education ; Health, Nutrition, and Population ; Gender ; Social Protection and Jobs – as well as the Human Capital Project . Mamta has held many leadership positions at the World Bank, including as Director of Operations Policy (2019), Director of…
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Johan Swinnen is director general of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and managing director of Systems Transformation at CGIAR. He is a member of the Advisory Committee On Voluntary Foreign Aid (ACVFA), USAID; Commissioner in the Food Systems Economics Commission; Co-Chair of the Think20 (T20) Task Force on Climate Change, Sustainable Energy, & Environment; and a…
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Vera Esperança dos Santos Daves de Sousa, was born in Luanda, and has a degree in Economics from the Catholic University of Angola (UCAN). She has been Minister of Finance since 2019 and was reappointed following August, 2022 elections. She is the first woman to rise to the post of Minister of Finance in Angola. Prior to her appointment, she was Secretary of State for Finance and Treasury.…
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Dr. Uzziel Ndagijimana is the Minister of Finance and Economic Planning in Rwanda’s Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning (MINECOFIN) and has been since April 2018. He served as Minister of State in Charge of Economic Planning (MINECOFIN) from July 2014 up to April 2018 before his appointment as full Minister of Finance and Economic Planning. Before joining the MINECOFIN, Dr. Ndagijimana was…
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Omar Arias is Manager of Global Engagement and Knowledge in the Education Global Practice. Previously, he was the Practice Lead Economist of the Social Protection and Labor Global Practice and Global Lead for skills at the World Bank. He was also the acting Sector Manager and Lead Economist in the Human Development Economics Unit for the World Bank Europe and Central Asia region; the sector…
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