Diane E. Davis is the Charles Dyer Norton Professor of Regional Development and Urbanism and Chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Design at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. Before to moving to the GSD in 2011, Davis served as the head of the International Development Group in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT, where she also had a term as Associate Dean of the…
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Current mayor of Santiago, Chile. A lawyer with a master in Corporate Law, Alessandri has a long trajectory in the public and private sectors. His first role in politics was in 2004, when he was elected Councilmember of Santiago, a position for which he was reelected in 2012. As mayor, his administration has focused on three main pillars: Clean, safe and organized Santiago; Santiago as a model…
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Eric Parrado Herrera is Chief Economist and General Manager of the Research Department of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) since March 2019. Before joining the IDB, he was a professor of economics and finance at the ESE Business School of the Universidad de los Andes in Santiago, Chile. Mr. Parrado is a visiting professor at Oxford University and the Central European University, and a…
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Kaya Henderson leads the Global Learning Lab for Community Impact at Teach For All. She served as Chancellor of DC Public Schools from 2010-2016. Her tenure was marked by consecutive years of enrollment growth, an increase in graduation rates, improvements in student satisfaction and teacher retention, and the greatest growth of any urban district on the National Assessment of Education Progress…
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Winner of Global Teacher Prize, Peter is a Kenyan mathematics and science teacher who comes from a very rural part of the country. His belief in his students and his innovative and passionate pedagogical approaches resulted in his students competing and winning national science competitions and participating in international ones. In addition to his work at school, in response to the ethnic…
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Michelle Tevita-Singh, is the Communications Manager for the University of the South Pacific and works as the Coordinator for the University’s Alumni. Her skills and experience include Public Relations, Media, Events Management, Corporate Communications and she has more than 10 years’ experience as a radio and television host.
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Dr. Kininmonth is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Marine Studies at the University of the South Pacific teaching Coral Reef Ecology and Marine Spatial Planning. He obtained a degree in zoology and genetics from the University of Melbourne and later obtained a Masters in Resource Science and a PhD from the University of Queensland. Dr. Kininmonth has over 20 years of field experience in marine…
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Born to an American father and Fijian mother, Justin Hunter grew up in the small town of Savusavu in Fiji where his love for island life and the ocean began. Moving to the United States as a young man, Mr. Hunter completed a marine science degree and began working for his family business, Taylor Shellfish. With over 10 years’ experience in the oyster industry Mr. Hunter returned to his hometown…
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As a 16 year old, Zakiyyah Ali attended the Red Cross General Assembly and spoke at the Humanitarian Village about the perils of nuclear testing on the Pacific’s oceans, land and people. She is now involved with “Project Survival Pacific”, which was formed by a network of young people passionate about climate action, resilience, sustainability and healthy oceans in the Pacific. Ms. Ali is a 4th…
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