Associate Professor Anjeela Jokhan has been the Dean of the Faculty of Science, Technology and Environment at the University of the South Pacific since 2010. Her professional career spans over 27 years, in which she has held various administrative and academic positions such as Dean, Associate Dean, and Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor in Biology. Her research interest lies in the area of…
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Stanley Simpson is a Director of Mai TV, Director of media production house Business Media, and is currently the editor of monthly magazine Fiji Plus. He is an award-winning journalist with over 20 years’ experience in Fiji and the region’s media and communications space. Simpson completed a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism and History/Politics from the University of the South Pacific in 1999.…
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Crystal is the Co-Founder and CEO of Crysan (Krai-sen) Technology Ltd, a Port Moresby-based Software Company she started with her father at 15. Crystal is also the entrepreneur behind “Biluminous” (Bee-loom-in-ous), a regional platform for artisans of traditional handicrafts in the Asia-Pacific that won two (2) APEC Awards last year in 2018. Crystal is a Software Engineer by Profession. In…
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Mr. Naibuka Saune is the Head of Mergers and Acquisition at Amalgamated Telecom Holdings Limited (ATH). He is primarily involved in investment management, strategic & operational management matters, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), corporate finance and restructures. He serves as a Director on the Boards of FINTEL, Telecom Fiji Limited and Telecom Vanuatu Limited, Bluesky American Samoa,…
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Nora Libertun de Duren is a Senior Specialist in the Urban Development and Housing Sector at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), where she leads the research and knowledge agenda. Recently, she has led the Sector Framework Document that establishes the IDB's priorities for its analytical work and its loans in Housing and Urban Development. Nora holds a PhD in Urban Planning from MIT, a…
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Sumila Gulyani is currently the World Bank’s Program Leader for Infrastructure and Sustainable Development in India. In this role, she coordinates the Bank’s work in seven practice areas—water, energy, transport, environment, agriculture, urban and social development—that together have an investment portfolio of about $23 billion in 80 projects. Prior to that she was Global Lead for Urban…
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Ingrid Gould Ellen is the Paulette Goddard Professor of Urban Policy and Planning at NYU’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and Faculty Director of the NYU Furman Center. Her research centers on neighborhoods, housing, and residential segregation. Ingrid is author of Sharing America’s Neighborhoods: The Prospects for Stable Racial Integration (Harvard University Press, 2000) and…
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Leah Boustan is a Professor of Economics at Princeton University, where she is also a faculty associate of the Industrial Relations Section. Her research lies at the intersection between economic history, labor economics and urban economics. Her book, Competition in the Promised Land: Black Migrants in Northern Cities and Labor Markets (Princeton University Press, 2016) was the recipient of the…
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Edlam Abera Yemeru is currently the Chief of the Urbanization and Development Section at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA). In this capacity, she leads the delivery of technical assistance to African member States in support of policies and strategies to leverage the potential of urbanization for economic diversification and inclusive growth. This involves strengthening…
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Tony Venables is Professor of Economics at Oxford University where he directs a programme of research on urbanisation in developing countries and the Oxford Centre for the Analysis of Resource Rich Economies. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, the Regional Science Association and the British Academy, a member of the steering group of the International Growth Centre and chair of the…
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