Belen Marcos is a Civil Engineer from the Polytechnic University of Valencia and holds a postgraduate degree in transportation infrastructure from the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées. She has for 20 years held various positions within the Ferrovial Group, in North America, where she had been assigned since 2005. She most recently held the presidency of CINTRA in the United States. She was…
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Marilyn Ceci is a Managing Director and Global Head of ESG Debt Capital Markets at J.P. Morgan’s Corporate & Investment Bank, where she has worked for over 34 years. Ms. Ceci co-authored the Green Bond Principles, which is the market standard process for issuing Green Bonds and sat as the Vice Chair of the Executive Committee for the first five years since the creation of the Principles. She…
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As general manager for digital inclusion and US community engagement at Microsoft Philanthropies, Naria leads Microsoft’s global philanthropic strategy, grant investments and partnerships in digital skills, computer science education, and career pathways. With the goal of increasing digital, computing, and AI skills for traditionally underrepresented and under-resourced communities, Naria’s team…
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Debo is a seasoned professional, a Corporate Sustainability and ESG practitioner, a trained business strategist, an innovator with experience and specialties towards working with the governments and private sector in integrating SDGs, Sustainability/ESG in core business strategy and operations with a strong drive on values, results, creating compelling overarching aspirations and embedding them…
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Lucas Ferraz is Secretary of Foreign Trade at the Ministry of Economy, government of Brazil. He is an engineer and holds a doctorate in economics from Getulio Vargas Foundation in São Paulo. He was a senior consultant in international trade for the World Bank and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and is one of the coordinators of the Brazilian chair at the World Trade…
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Jewel McFadden is a publishing expert for World Bank Group Publications. As an acquisitions editor, she is the first point of contact for prospective authors and a gatekeeper of quality for the World Bank Group Publications brand. Additionally, Jewel serves as the outreach and inclusion chair for GLOBE, the World Bank's LGBT+ employee resource group. She was the communications and branding …
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Kelly Widelska is currently an Economic Inclusion Advisor for the Gender and Economic Inclusion Group at the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group and the largest global development institution focused on the private sector in emerging markets. She has been an Inclusion Advocate and Network Leader for 15+ years. She has advised leadership and lead resource…
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Radek is a Senior Infrastructure and Transport Specialist at the World Bank and Program Manager for GRSF Multi-Donor Trust-Funds. He has over twenty five years of experience in large infrastructure investments, technical assistance and consultancy projects in developing countries. In the last several years he has been involved in a variety of donor funded projects in transport sector focusing on…
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Gladys Lopez-Acevedo is a Lead Economist and a Global Lead at the World Bank in the Poverty and Equity Global Practice. She works primarily in the South Asia and Middle East and North Africa Regions of the World Bank. Gladys’ areas of analytical and operational interest include trade, welfare, gender, conflict, and jobs. Previously, she was a Lead Economist in the World Bank Chief Economist’s…
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Dr Molly Morgan Jones is the Director of Policy at The British Academy. Molly oversees all the Academy’s policy work and activities, on topics ranging from how the humanities and social sciences can shape a post-pandemic future , to reviewing the role of purposeful business in our societies, understanding and supporting cohesive societies , and informing and enriching higher education and skills…
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