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Ranjitsinh Disale
Ranjitsinh Disale hails from Paritewadi Village in the Solapur District of Maharashtra . At the beginning, he decided to be an IT engineer and had enrolled in an engineering college. But when things didn't fit for him, his father convinced him to take up the teacher's training programme. He is the winner of $1 million annual Global Teacher Prize 2020 which was announced on 3rd December 2020. The…
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Julie Monaco
Julie Monaco is Managing Director and Global Head of Citi’s Public Sector Group in the Corporate and Investment Banking division of Citi’s Institutional Clients Group. She leads the banking coverage team in 98 countries that is responsible for providing a full range of financial services to public sector entities in 160 countries. She has 34 years of experience in the financial services industry…
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Gro H. Brundtland
Former Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) and Prime Minister of Norway—the first woman and youngest person to serve in that role, Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland has provided leadership on issues of global significance for over four decades. She has served as one of three UN Special Envoys for Climate Change, having been named to that position in May of 2007 by UN Secretary General…
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Vongsey Vissoth
Vongsey Vissoth is Cambodia’s Permanent Secretary of State and Minister attached to the Prime Minister. He oversees macroeconomic and fiscal policies, budget, international cooperation, and public private partnership. He has spearheaded the formulation of major strategies and policies, such as Budget System Reform Strategy (2018-2025), Medium-Term Expenditure Framework, Revenue Mobilization…
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Esperanza Martinez
Dr. Esperanza Martinez is a global and humanitarian health expert currently leading the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) COVID-19 crisis response. Prior to that, she was ICRC’s Head of Health and responsible for the provision of essential health care services to people affected by armed conflict and violence in more than 80 countries. She is a medical doctor and general surgeon,…
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K.Y. Amoako
In a career spanning almost five decades, Dr. K.Y. Amoako has contributed with passion and energy to Africa’s ongoing development. After obtaining a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California-Berkeley in 1974, he began his career at the World Bank, where he spent two decades working in Africa and Washington, D.C., on vital but underserved economic and social development issues, such as…
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Minouche Shafik
Minouche Shafik is Director of LSE. Prior to this she was a Deputy Governor of the Bank of England. An economist by training, Baroness Shafik has spent most of her career straddling the worlds of public policy and academia. After completing her BSc in Economics and Politics at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, she took an MSc in Economics at LSE before completing a DPhil in economics at…
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Seth Berkley
A medical doctor and infectious disease epidemiologist, Dr Seth Berkley joined Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance as its CEO in August 2011, spearheading its mission to protect the world’s poorest children by improving access to new and underused vaccines. In its 20 years of existence, Gavi has reached more than 820 million children in the 73 poorest countries. In 2015, Dr Berkley led Gavi to its second…
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Ajaita Shah
Ajaita drives vision, strategy, investments, and partnerships at Frontier Markets. She has been working with social enterprises and in rural India in microfinance, rural distribution, marketing, and access for 15+ years, and has committed to empowering rural women across the developing world through business models, financial inclusion, technology, data, clean energy, and inspiring women to push…
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Somi Kakoma
Known in the jazz world simply as ‘Somi’, Somi Kakoma has built a career of transatlantic storytelling. She recently released a live album called ‘Holy Room’, featuring the Frankfurt Radio Big Band. The album earned her a 2021 Grammy nomination for Best Jazz Vocal Album, making her the first African woman ever nominated in any of the Grammy jazz categories. The album is also nominated for a 2021…
Type: Expert

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