Economist and social thinker Dr. Hossain Zillur Rahman is a leading policy voice of Bangladesh with over three decades of experience within and outside government. Holding a master’s in economics from Dhaka University, and PhD in political sociology from the University of Manchester, UK, Dr Rahman was a leading researcher at the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies between 1977 and 2000…
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Melissa Williams is Senior Rural Development Specialist in the Agriculture Global Practice. She works in South Asia and livelihoods development, women’s empowerment, and agriculture for nutrition.
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Ms. Van Bronkhorst, a Dutch national, joined the Bank in 2005 as an Urban Specialist in the Latin America and the Caribbean Region. She has since held various positions, including as Sector/Practice Manager from 2012-2016 for the Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change unit in the South Asia Region and, most recently, as Practice Manager for Urban Development and Disaster Risk Management for…
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Identity and Belonging in the Human and Social Capabilities (HSC) Division at the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) in South Africa and Extraordinary Associate Professor in Educational Psychology at the University of the Western Cape. He leads multiyear, multicountry projects across Eastern and Southern Africa focused on systems level change related to diversity, especially gender and sexual…
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M. V. Lee Badgett is a professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Williams Distinguished Scholar at UCLA’s Williams Institute. Her research focuses on the global cost of homophobia and transphobia and on LGBTI economic inequality, including wage gaps, employment discrimination, and poverty. Her latest book, The Economic Case for LGBT Equality: Why Fair and Equal…
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Dr. Mattia Romani is EBRD Managing Director for Economics, Policy and Governance. Before joining the EBRD in 2014, he was Deputy Director General and Chief Economist of the Global Green Growth Institute; senior expert with McKinsey and Company; and Lord Nicholas Stern’s deputy on the UN Secretary General’s High-Level Advisory Group on Climate Finance. Prior to this he had leading roles at Shell…
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Ms. El-Shenoufy oversees the investment portfolio of Flat6Labs, a startup accelerator program and venture capital fund that fosters and invests in entrepreneurs with cutting-edge ideas in the MENA region. The VC fund received an investment from IFC, supported with We-Fi funding, in 2019. Prior to joining Flat6Labs, Ms. el-Shenoufy worked as a Senior Analyst for Al-Ahly Capital Holding, where she…
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Maheen Adamjee is a co-founder at Dot & Line which is a tech-enabled education startup, providing home-based math and literacy tutoring to primary school-aged children in Pakistan, whilst enabling women to gain meaningful employment from home. The firm was founded in 2016 and UK’s development cooperation agency, DfID, provided a first seed grant. In June 2019, Dot & Line received an…
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Alex joined SEEP in 2019 as executive director. In this capacity, he supports SEEP’s committed and talented team in the execution of programs and initiatives, keeping focus on innovation and transformation of the SEEP Network, building on its proud history and current work. Prior to joining SEEP, Alex served as the Chief Innovation Officer at CIVICUS World Alliance for Citizen Participation, a…
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