Mohamed A. El-Erian is Chief Economic Advisor at Allianz, the corporate parent of PIMCO, where he formerly served as chief executive and co-chief investment officer (2007-2014). He chaired President Obama’s Global Development Council, is a columnist for Bloomberg View and a contributing editor at the Financial Times. Dr. El-Erian first joined PIMCO in 1999 and was a senior member of PIMCO's…
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Ellen Savage is Vice President of Membership at the Consumer Technology Association (CTA)TM, the trade association representing the $351 billion U.S. consumer technology industry. More than 2,200 companies – 80 percent are small businesses and startups; others are among the world’s best known brands – enjoy the benefits of CTA membership including policy advocacy, market research, technical…
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Amrote Abdella, is Regional Director of Microsoft 4Afrika Initiatives. In her career, she has focused on financial services, policy guidance and economic development for Africa. Prior to joining Microsoft, Amrote worked for, among others, the World Economic Forum, the World Bank, the Global Hunger project and the Grameen Foundation.
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Edward Hsu, is currently Senior Adviser, Disruptive Technologies within the World Bank’s Infrastructure Vice Presidency. His role includes managing special initiatives within disruptive technologies and developing partnerships with global strategic technology companies.”
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Sonia Jorge, has over 25 years of diverse international experience in ICT policy and regulatory advice and analysis, strategic industry planning, and national ICT/broadband policy development. Sonia is an avid advocate of gender equality in development and has worked extensively to promote gender analysis and awareness in the ICT planning process, as well as an understanding of the importance of universal…
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Boutheina Guermazi, is the World Bank’s Director of Digital Development (DD). She heads a global team working on building digital economies in developing countries, to drive shared prosperity and reduced poverty.
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Robert Beyer is a macroeconomist at the South Asia Office of the Chief Economist at the World Bank. He is the lead author of the biannual macroeconomic update for South Asia entitled South Asia Economic Focus and leads the South Asia Economic Policy Network. Before joining the World Bank in 2016, he conducted research at the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund and completed…
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Dushni Weerakoon is the Executive Director of the Institute of Policy Studies of Sri Lanka (IPS) and Head of its Macroeconomic Policy research. She has extensive experience in public policy engagement, and currently serves as an Appointed Member of the Monetary Board of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka and as a Member of the Trade and Productivity Commission, Ministry of Development Strategies and…
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Dr. Nadeem ul Haque is currently the Vice Chancellor of Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, Quaid-e-Azam University Campus, Islamabad. He also served as the deputy chairman of the Planning Commission of Pakistan. Apart from his extensive work in Pakistan, Nadeem ul Haque worked for the International Monetary Fund for 24 years. During his long and illustrious affiliation with the IMF, he…
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Naina Lal Kidwai is Chairman Advent Private Equity India Advisory board; a non-executive director on the boards of LafargeHolcim, Max Financial Services, Larsen and Toubro and CIPLA; Trustee of Asia House in the UK; India Advisory Council member of USIBC; and has been Past President of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) where she continues to chair the Water…
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