Alex Cobham is an economist and chief executive of the Tax Justice Network, and a commissioner for the statutory Poverty and Inequality Commission for Scotland. He is also a founding member of the steering group of the Independent Commission for the Reform of International Corporate Taxation, and of the technical advisory group for the Fair Tax Mark. His work focuses on illicit financial flows,…
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Jon Hilsenrath, is a senior correspondent for The Wall Street Journal. He has been at the WSJ since 1997, working as both a writer and editor in Hong Kong, New York and Washington D.C., covering economics and finance. He was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in April 2014 for his coverage of the Federal Reserve, part of a WSJ team that was Pulitzer finalist in 2009 for coverage of the financial crisis and contributed on…
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Executive level strategist/advisor of Broadband Network Implementation and Services bridging municipal broadband deployment initiatives with wireless and wireline next generation Smart City technology. SME on the assessment of real property assets and its viability for neutral host options for third party broadband providers. Al is the former Deputy Commissioner of Telecommunications Planning…
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Dr. Wong is a United States Fulbright Senior Scholar at the Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing. Dr. Wong is working on helping institutionalize ecosystem service assessments in China to advance sustainable development. Her current research is on evaluating China’s governance reforms for constructing China’s Ecological Civilization. In particular…
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Educated in South Africa, Dion started his career in the UK and entered the technology and media space during the nascent 'dot-com boom' era of the mid-1990s. This transformational period, together with Dion’s passion for media, technology and Africa, led him to found Connect Africa in 2004. Connect Africa is a socially driven enterprise, instrumental in extending GSM (mobile phone) coverage to…
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Nkechi Coker is a seasoned civic technologist passionate about leveraging data and technology to improve the way government engages and delivers services to citizens. For the past 9 years, she has worked with national and sub-national governments, civil societies and journalists in Africa and Asia, championing open data, open governance, govtech and building data-driven communities across Africa.…
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Mara is a Human Computer Interaction (HCI) researcher and a technology strategist. She is the CEO of Ideas for Change, an innovation agency advising cities, businesses and institutions. Mara’s work sits at the intersection of civic technology, data, co-creation and Action Research. She has authored over 30 publications on these subjects and coordinated projects such as Making Sense EU, Bristol…
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Since January 2016, Peggy Hicks has served as director of the Thematic Engagement, Special Procedures and Right to Development Division at the UN's human rights office. From 2005 to 2015, she was global advocacy director at Human Rights Watch, where she was responsible for coordinating Human Rights Watch's advocacy team and providing direction to its advocacy worldwide. Ms. Hicks previously…
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Eric Martin, is the Senior Strategist at ITVS, where he helps design and develop initiatives that combine documentary film, social impact, and the power of public interest media. He's served as the lead architect of projects such as the Global Perspectives Project, Diverse Muslim Voices, and Women and Girls Lead Global, a 34-film broadcast and engagement partnership with USAID and the Ford Foundation that led…
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Aric Noboa serves as the President and Executive Producer of Impact(Ed) International, a nonprofit organization using the power of media to transform education and improve lives in marginalized communities around the world. Established by Discovery (home of Discovery Channel, HGTV, Science, Eurosport, etc.), Impact(Ed) has created dynamic learning environments for over 2 million students in 16…
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