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Judy Heumann
Judith (Judy) Heumann contracted polio in 1949 in Brooklyn, NY and began to experience discrimination at five years old when she was denied the right to attend school because she was a "fire hazard." Her parents played a strong role in fighting for her rights as a child. Heumann determined that she, working in collaboration with other disabled people, had to play an increasing advocacy role as…
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Ade Adepitan
Ade Adepitan is a British television presenter and wheelchair basketball player. After contracting polio as a child, he lost the use of his left leg and has since used a wheelchair. Originally born in Lagos, Nigeria but moving to the U.K. at the age of three, he began playing wheelchair basketball and competing in the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens for bronze and in the 2005 Paralympic World…
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Fabio Fagundes
Mr. Fabio Jose Fagundes is the Chief for Financial Products & Services of IDB Invest, member of the Inter-American Development Bank Group, in Washington, DC. He is a dual citizen of Brazil and the United Kingdom and has over 25 years’ experience in global financial markets. He worked for the Wholesale Banking units of Banco Real in Brazil and ABN AMRO Bank in the UK with a global reach.…
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Nandita Parshad
Nandita Parshad is the Managing Director, Sustainable Infrastructure Group at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) where she heads a group of 200 staff covering the energy, transport and municipal infrastructure sectors in all of the Bank’s 38 countries of operation. The Group holds a portfolio of about EUR 20 billion.   Nandita has 30 years’ experience in financing and…
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Vivi Yulaswati
As a Senior Advisor to the Minister of National Development Planning for Social Affairs and Poverty Reduction, Vivi Yulaswati’s main responsibility is to do analysis and advise the minister on social and poverty reduction-related issues and strategies. She also leads the National Secretariate for Sustainable Development Goals. She has long experiences in designing major poverty reduction programs…
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Adejumoke Olutayo
Jumia Nigeria seller Adejumoke Olutayo is the founder of Deeski.com – an online grocery outlet. A widow and mother to six-year-old twins, Jumoke has built a thriving business through online sales and financing support from the Jumia Lending Program. Launched in 2016, Deeski.com now serves all areas in Lagos, Nigeria’s bustling commercial capital. Through training and financial support from Jumia…
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Elizabeth Howton
Elizabeth Howton is the Senior External Affairs Officer for the World Bank’s Poverty and Equity Global Practice and the Fiscal Policy and Sustainable Growth unit. Her assignments since joining the Bank in 2012 have included working with the infoDev program and as the Global Web Editor. Her experience prior to the Bank includes 10 years as an editor at the San Jose Mercury News in California’s…
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Jonathan Rothwell
Jonathan Rothwell is the Principal Economist at Gallup, where he helps clients design and execute research to answer their questions and address societal challenges. Before joining Gallup in 2016, he was a Fellow at the Brookings Institution where he is currently a Nonresident Senior Fellow. His work specializes in labor economics, political economy, and urban economics and sociology. In addition…
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Miriam Muller
Miriam Muller is a Social Scientist with the Poverty and Equity Global Practice, in the West and Central Africa region. Prior to joining the West and Central Africa region, she has worked extensively in Latin America, focusing on qualitative research and on gender equality in Latin America. Before joining the World Bank, Miriam worked on gender equality with the German Development Cooperation (…
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David Newhouse
David Newhouse is a Senior Economist in the World Bank’s Poverty and Equity Global Practice and a fellow at the Institute of Labor Economics. His work has focused on economic measurement and analysis related to poverty and jobs in developing countries. He currently co-leads the Sub-Saharan Africa team for statistical development, the expansion of the Bank’s Global Monitoring Database of…
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