Joshua Johnson, hosts 1A, a production of WAMU in Washington, DC and distributed by NPR. Launched at a tumultuous time for news and inspired by the 1st Amendment, Joshua Johnson and 1A brings new insight and inquiry to the most pressing issues of our time. “My professional passions have always centered on creativity, exploration and service,” Joshua notes. “This moment in history demands these attributes of us.…
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Jennifer Semakula-Musisi is the first Executive Director of the Kampala Capital City Authority that was established to administer Uganda’s Capital City-Kampala on behalf of the Central Government. Over the past six Years, Jennifer has headed the transformation of the City and initiated a number of activities that have enhanced efficiency in services delivery and paved way for the current steady…
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Dr. Danielle Wood is assistant professor of Media Arts and Sciences at the MIT Media Lab. Dr. Wood leads the Space Enabled Research Group seeking to advance justice in earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space. Dr. Wood is a scholar of societal development with a background that includes satellite design, earth science applications, systems engineering, and technology policy for the…
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Dr. Jaana Remes is an economist and a partner at the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI), McKinsey & Company's business and economics research arm, based in San Francisco. Since 2003, Jaana has led MGI's research on productivity, urbanization, competitiveness, and growth. Her most recent research looks at global consumer groups that are shaping global demand, as well as global growth prospects in…
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Claire Melamed is the CEO of the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data, heading up a global team based in five countries. She was previously Managing Director of the Overseas Development Institute, and in 2014, she worked in the office of the UN Secretary General, writing the report of the Independent Expert Advisory Group on the Data Revolution, “A World That Counts”. Claire is…
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Ursula Owusu-Ekuful was appointed Ghana’s minister of Communication in 2016. She has also been the NPP Member of Parliament for the Ablekuma West Constituency since 2012. Before that she worked for 10 years as an Associate Attorney and was the acting Managing Director of Western Telesystems, and from April 2008 to January 2009, she was the Corporate and External Affairs Director, ZAIN Ghana. In…
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Chris White is a Principal Researcher and Partner at Microsoft working on special projects. His team is currently developing software for data analysis, focusing on the intersection of artificial intelligence and business intelligence. Their work has been applied to fighting digital crime and worldwide tech scams, including the Federal Trade Commission’s Operation Tech Trap. Before joining…
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Solmssen was Siemens’ general counsel and assumed responsibility for the company’s businesses in North and South America and was best known for having negotiated simultaneous settlements of the Siemens corruption prosecutions and leading a global campaign against bribery. In October 2016, he began serving as Executive Vice President and General Counsel of American International Group AIG ,…
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Until February 2014, Segnini headed a team of journalists and computer engineers at La Nacion, Costa Rica’s newspaper. The team was fully dedicated to unfolding investigative stories by gathering, analyzing and visualizing public databases. She also partakes actively in the ICIJ’s Panama Papers project. Her work has garnered several world class Awards.
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Alina Mungiu-Pippidi is Professor of Democracy Studies at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin. Her research centres on anti-corruption policy and good governance. Mungiu-Pippidi chairs the European Research Centre for Anti-Corruption and State-Building (ERCAS). She is President of the Romanian Academic Society (SAR) and founder of the social media watchdog platform Clean Romania! (…
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