Timothy N. J. Antoine, a national of Grenada, assumed duties as, the third Governor of the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB) on 1 February 2016. He is an economist and development practitioner by training, experience and passion. Before taking up the position of Governor, Mr. Antoine served as Director for Grenada on the ECCB Board of Directors for the periods: 2002 to October 2005 and January 2008 to January 2016. Mr. Antoine’s 22-year tenure with the…
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Dyogo Henrique de Oliveira, 41, a native of Araguaína-TO, is an economist with a Master’s Degree from the University of Brasilia. He is also an accredited specialist in Public Policy and Government Administration from the Brazil’s National School of Public Administration (ENAP) since 1998 and an accredited specialist in Foreign Trade, International Negotiations and Exchange from the Getulio…
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Dr. Lea Giménez is the first woman to be appointed Minister of Finance in Paraguay in June 2017 and is also the youngest finance minister in Latin America. Prior to this, she joined the Ministry of Finance as Vice Minister of Economy in 2016 and worked as an Economist in the World Bank's Poverty and Macro-Fiscal Global Practices. She led a number of programs and assisted several countries in Asia…
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Esther Kunda is the Program and Operations Coordinator for Next Einstein Forum. She is building and managing the African community of scientists through various programs. Prior to that, she was supporting the Government of Rwanda to implement the Smart Education master plan as an Education Support Manager at Intel. She is experienced in product and business development in tech especially ICT for…
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Jennifer Semakula-Musisi is a lawyer, advocate of the High Court of Uganda and seasoned administrator with a strong legal, administrative and leadership background. She trained at Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda as well as numerous other institutions including The George Washington University, Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School. Jennifer earlier worked for Makerere University as…
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Mr Vazil Hudák joined the European Investment Bank as Vice-President at the beginning of October, 2016. He is the first Slovak national to join the EU Bank's Management Committee. Prior to his appointment, Mr Hudák was active as lead Slovak negotiator for the EU Budget. In the period from June 2015 to March 2016 Mr Hudák was Slovakia's Minister for the Economy. Between 2012 and 2015, he was…
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Henrietta H. Fore became UNICEF’s seventh Executive Director on 1 January 2018. She has worked to champion economic development, education, health, humanitarian assistance and disaster relief in a public service, private sector and non-profit leadership career that spans more than four decades. From 2007 to 2009, Ms. Fore served as the Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International…
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Ms. Penny Mordaunt was appointed Secretary of State for International Development on 9 November 2017. She was appointed Minister for Women and Equalities on 30 April 2018. She was Minister of State for Department for Work and Pensions from 15 July 2016 to 9 November 2017. She was elected Conservative MP for Portsmouth North in 2010. Penny worked for Conservative Central Office, becoming Head of…
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Regional Adviser in the Regional Bureau since 2014, Moises Venancio is also co-chair of the UN Inter Agency Task Force Post agreement planning exercise for Syria. He has also served as Deputy Resident Representative in Armenia (1997-99) and Bosnia and Herzegovina (2001-04), and was HQ team leader for the West Balkans (2004-09). He was part of the team that rolled out the first RBM approaches in…
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