Simon is a British national and strategic leader with over 30 years of international experience in the development, investment and commercial banking arenas. Based in Washington D.C. and operating internationally, Simon now provides a unique brand of custom event design, facilitation, moderation and teambuilding services to corporate clients. He offers customized solutions in the following: •…
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Advocate Thuli Madonsela is an Advocate of the High Court of South Africa and a lifelong activist on social justice, constitutionalism, human rights, good governance and the rule of law. Named one of TIME100 influential people, in 2014 and Forbes Africa Person of the Year 2016, Thuli Madonsela is one of the drafters of South Africa’s Constitution and co-architect of several laws that have sought…
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Sanjay Pradhan joined the Open Government Partnership in May 2016 as Chief Executive Officer. Bringing a wealth of open government and innovation experience to the role, he previously served in three senior positions at the World Bank: as the Vice President for Leadership, Learning and Innovation, the Vice President of the World Bank Institute, and the Director for Governance. While at the World…
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Fanklin Foer is a correspondent at The Atlantic and a fellow at the New America Foundation . He is the author of How Soccer Explains the World , which has been translated into 27 languages. Foer draws on his books and his work as a journalist to break down complicated domestic and international issues. For seven years, he edited The New Republic magazine. He is a popular speaker at conferences…
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Nick Shockey is, the Director of Programs & Engagement at SPARC where he focuses on fostering and supporting communities that advance Open Access, Open Education, and Open Data. In this capacity, Nick founded the Right to Research Coalition, an international alliance of student organizations—collectively representing millions of students in over 100 countries around the world—that promote policies and…
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Elisa Liberatori Prati, is the Chief Archivist of the Bank Group and the Sr. Manager of the Knowledge & Information Services Unit in the Information & Technology Solutions (ITS) vice-presidency of the World Bank, in Washington, DC. In this position, Elisa leads the Bank Group Archives as Chief Archivist, the Bank Group Library, the Internal Documents Unit, the Records/Information Management Program, the ITS…
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Soazic Elise Wang Sonne, is a final year PhD fellow in Economics and Governance at the United Nations University (UNU-MERIT) in Maastricht, The Netherlands. She is currently a visiting scholar at the University of California-Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences (BITSS) where she has been working since early 2016 as a catalyst; promoting and advocating for an increased adoption of openness and…
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Timothy Herzog, is a Data Scientist at the World Bank, where he is working on several fronts to expand the Bank’s highly successful Open Data Initiative, and advance similar efforts in other countries. Tim is the project lead for the Bank’s open data website and the open data toolkit, and helps to manage the Bank’s open data catalog. He has conducted research on topics such as open data for National Statistics…
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Thanos Giannakopoulos, is the Principal Librarian of the United Nations Dag Hammarskjöld Library, at the UN Headquarters in New York. He envisions the UN Library as a global open knowledge community and under his leadership, several knowledge products have been developed; including the recent release of the United Nations Digital Library and several communication, outreach and training strategies.
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Lola is a seasoned media veteran, with a career as a writer and television correspondent, covering key events in entertainment, popular culture and politics for the New York Times, CNN, NBC, MSNBC, BET, MTV, VH1 and Al Jazeera . She’s interviewed First Lady Michelle Obama, George Clooney, Jennifer Lopez, Lupita Nyong’o, Jon Stewart and Oprah Winfrey. Lola currently hosts "Entertainment Weekly…
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