Shreya Gadepalli is the South Asia Director at the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP). Shreya is regarded as one of the foremost experts on sustainable urban mobility in India. She currently leads ITDP’s South Asia team in guiding public agencies on the implementation of sustainable transport and urban planning best practices, reform of urban transport policy and capacity…
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Abid Qaiyum Suleri, has headed the Sustainable Development Policy Institute since 2007 and is editor-in-chief of its peer-reviewed Journal of Development Policy, Research, and Practice . His research interests include sustainable development, climate change, rural livelihoods, food security, and regional trade. Suleri is a member of the Pakistan prime minister’s National Economic Advisory Council, the advisory…
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Vassil Terziev is a Managing Partner at Eleven Ventures, an early stage VC fund focused on the Southeast Europe region. Prior to Eleven, Vassil served as Chief Innovation Officer of Progress Software (NASDAQ: PRGS) which he joined with the acquisition of Telerik, the co-company he co-founded in 2002. As CEO of Telerik, he played a key role in the successful growth of the company from a start-up…
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Pēteris Zilgalvis is the Head of Unit for Digital Innovation and Blockchain in the Digital Single Market Directorate in DG CONNECT and is the Co-Chair of the European Commission FinTech Task Force. He was the Visiting EU Fellow at St. Antony's College, University of Oxford for 2013-14, where was an Associate of the Political Economy of Financial Markets Programme. From 1997 to 2005, he was Deputy…
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Ms. Elisabeth Gruber is Director of the Department for International Financial Institutions at the Austrian Federal Ministry of Finance. Before that, she was Senior Advisor in the same department responsible for the World Bank Group portfolio and working on issues related to multilateral development finance. From 2008 to 2010 she served as Alternate Executive Director at the Inter-American…
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Dr. Ta Dinh Thi’s recent positions in MONRE of Vietnam From March 2018 to present: Director General, Viet Nam Administration of Seas and Islands, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment. From January 2011 to February 2018: Director, Department of Personnel and Organization, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment. From May 2010 to December 2010: Vice Chief of Office, Ministry of…
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Enrico is a Chief Counsel (Banking Operations) and member of the Procurement Complaints Committee at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. He has spent the last 16 years working in developing and emerging markets, structuring and advising on privatizations, M&A, project finance, PPP and banking transactions (with a focus on China, Russia and Turkey). Enrico is currently …
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Sean works for the Transparency International Health Initiative, which aims ’ to reduce corruption in the health sector for the benefit of all people in all contexts’. Sean is primarily responsible for monitoring and evaluation of the Initiative’s ‘Open Contracting for Health’ and ‘Improving Covid-19 Procurement to Increase Equitable Access to Medicines and Equipment’ projects, both of which…
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Paulo Magina is the Head of Public Procurement at the OECD Directorate for Public Governance since March 2014, where he is devoted to supporting member and non-member countries in their efforts to improve their public procurement and infrastructure governance systems, making them more strategic and impactful for the life and well-being of citizens. With over 15 years’ experience in the public…
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Vinay Sharma, , joined the World Bank as a Director of Procurement on June 15, 2017. Vinay has over thirty years of experience, much of which has been at senior leadership positions responsible for policy formulation, project management, developing strategic alliances and implementation of reforms. Before joining the World Bank, Vinay was the Director of the African Development Bank’s (AfDB) Procurement and…
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