Mr. Aset Irgaliyev (35) was appointed as Chairman of the Agency for Strategic Planning and Reforms. Previously, he held several positions in the Government including Minister of National Economy, First Vice-Minister of National Economy, Deputy Head of the Prime-Minister’s Office, Vice-Minister of National Economy, Advisor to the Prime-Minister. In 2013-2016 he held managerial positions at the…
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Mr. Hem’s career spans across private sector, the United Nations system, multilateral development bank, and government. As Secretary of State, he looks after development financing, coordination and management of ODA (both strategy and operation), public debt management and supports key policy agenda. He coordinates a number of inter-ministerial mechanisms that tackle major infrastructures and…
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Minister Mario Joao holds a master’s degree in agrarian Economics from the Prague Agriculture University, and a PhD on African Studies from the Carlos University of Prague, both in Czeck Republic. Prior to his appointment as Minister of Economy of Planning, he was the Secretary of State for Economy. Before his appointment as a member of the Angolan government, from 2016 to 2019, Minister Mario…
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Romuald Wadagni, Minister of Economy and Finance for Benin, also serves as a World Bank Governor. Previously, he worked as a partner and CEO of Deloitte France and Deloitte Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Wadagni graduated from the Harvard Business School and from Ecole Supérieure des Affaires of Grenoble, France. He is a Chartered Accountant in France and a Certified Public Accountant in…
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Leila has 20+ years of experience in financial services and technology investments. She leads IFC’s FinTech investments in Latin America and also leads specific verticals globally including TradeTech and Lending. She’s contributed to numerous IFC/WBG initiatives on financial inclusion and development. Prior to IFC she worked at Bank of America in financial lending and structured finance products…
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Hervé Ndoba has been Minister of Finance and Budget since June 2021. Before his current position, Mr. Ndoba had an international career in the private sector. In 2013, he served as chief administrative and financial officer for a port towing conglomerate in Côte d’Ivoire, where he engineered and implemented the consolidation of the group’s subsidiaries in sub-Saharan Africa. While he worked as…
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Aisha Williams is IFC’s Director for Blended Finance and Corporate Strategy. She manages a team of investment professionals responsible for concessional co-investments alongside IFC, originating from over $5 billion of blended finance facilities across investment themes that include fragile and low-income countries, gender, climate, agribusiness, and small and medium enterprises. She oversees IFC…
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Born on June 20, 1968, in Wrocław. Polish politician and manager, former CEO of Bank Zachodni WBK. Graduate of the University of Wrocław, Business Administration Central Connecticut State University and the Wrocław University of Technology, MBA studies at the Wrocław University of Economics, University of Hamburg and the University of Basel. In 1998, he was a member of the group negotiating…
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Beatrice is a communications specialist with three decades of corporate experience spanning the FMCG, finance and telecommunications industries. The last decade was as CEO of Digicel PNG Foundation, with the more recent three years as founder and CEO of GeuLen & Daughters Ltd (GLaD) and Black &White Events Ltd (B&WE). GLaD and B&WE are a strategic Management and Restructure…
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Mr. Ion Gumene, State Secretary of the Ministry of Finance. Ion Gumene was appointed State Secretary of the Ministry of Finance on February 02, 2022. Prior to that, Mr. Gumene served as Program Director at the “Expert-Grup” think tank’s department of public policies and public administration reform (2016-2022); consultant in the field of functional analysis at the Dynamic Integrated Processes…
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