Renana Jhabvala is the National Coordinator of the Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) of India, Chair of SEWA Bharat and co-founder and board chair of WIEGO. She las a long and distinguished career in organizing working women in India into trade unions and cooperatives, engaging on policy issues, and writing about the informal economy. Her publications on the informal economy in India…
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Ishrat Husain has been serving as the adviser to PM Imran Khan on Institutional Reforms and Austerity, with the status of Federal Minister, since August 2018. He had a distinguished career at the World Bank for over two decades 1979-1999. Among the key positions he held at the Bank were Resident Representative to Nigeria, head of the Bank’s Debt and International Finance Division, Chief Economist…
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Swarnim Waglé is Senior Team Leader for Strategy, Policy and Partnerships at the UNDP Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific in New York covering 36 countries. Between 2014 and 2018, he served the National Planning Commission (NPC) of the Government of Nepal as Member, and then as Head (Vice-Chair), for three years. Dr. Waglé has worked as an international development professional for more than…
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Shyam Saran is a former Foreign Secretary of India and has served as Prime Minister’s Special Envoy For Nuclear Affairs and Climate Change. After leaving government service in 2010, he has headed the Research and Information System for Developing Countries, a prestigious think tank focusing on economic issues (2011-2017) and was Chairman of the National Security Advisory Board under the National…
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Robert J. Gordon is Stanley G. Harris Professor in the Social Sciences and Professor of Economics at Northwestern University. He is one of the world’s leading experts on inflation, unemployment, and long-term economic growth. His recent work on the rise and fall of American economic growth and the widening of the U. S. income distribution have been widely cited, and in 2016 he was named as one of…
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Nicholas (Nick) Bloom, is the William Eberle Professor of Economics at Stanford University, a Senior Fellow of SIEPR, and the Co-Director of the Productivity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship program at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research focuses on management practices and uncertainty. He previously worked at the UK Treasury and McKinsey & Company. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts…
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Laura Alfaro is the Warren Alpert Professor of Business Administration. She is also a Faculty Research Associate in the National Bureau of Economic Research's International Finance and Macroeconomics Program and the International Trade and Investment Program, member of the International Finance Corporation (IFC) Economic Advisory Board, the Latin-American Financial Regulatory Committee (CLAAF),…
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As Inclusive Education-Technical Advisor at HI, Ms. Subekshya Karki has been working in the education sector for the past seven years. Ms. Karki has been working closely with the government, working groups, civil society and organizations of persons with disabilities to ensure that inclusive education, particularly for children with disabilities, is a focus area, including in the areas of…
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Raka Banerjee is a Project Coordinator in the Development Data Group at the World Bank. She supports the Data Group in developing and executing priorities including departmental strategy, knowledge products, outreach and communications. As part of the Development Data Council Secretariat, she supports World Bank institutional priorities around data including data governance and new data…
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