Hassan Ali Khayre was appointed Prime Minister of Somalia on February 23, 2017. He and his family fled to Norway as refugees in 1991 at the outbreak of Somalia’s civil war. He worked for several years at the Norwegian Refugee Council, beginning in 2002, and served in various senior roles including area manager, country director, and, eventually, Regional Director for the Horn of Africa. Following…
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Yves Daccord has served as Director-General of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)since 2010. He joined ICRC in 1992, and has also served as Director of Communications and Deputy Head of the Division for the Promotion of International Humanitarian Law. In 2015, then-WHO Director General Margaret Chan appointed Daccord as a member of the Advisory Group on Reform of WHO’s Work in…
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Candy Crowley is an award-winning journalist and one of the smartest and most astute observers of politics of our time. She served as CNN’s chief political correspondent and the host of its Sunday morning talk show State of the Union with Candy Crowley , a political hour of interviews and analysis of the week’s most important issues. She covered presidential, congressional, and gubernatorial…
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Farah Shash is a Community Psychologist working in the fields of Human Rights and Community Development, specialized in issues of gender and sexual and gender-based violence. She received her Bachelor degree in Psychology from the American University in Cairo in 2009. She also graduated with a master’s degree in Community Psychology in 2012 from the American University in Cairo and her thesis was…
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Blaire is Global Head of the One Million Women Program at Uber, which is Uber’s pledge to economically empower 1,000,000 women as driver-partners on the global Uber platform. She is a business and operations leader with global experience in the technology sector, with a focus on diversity & inclusion. Before joining Uber, Blaire was at Dropbox, where she built and led the Customer Marketing…
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Arun Sundararajan is Professor and the Robert L. and Dale Atkins Rosen Faculty Fellow at New York University’s Stern School of Business, and an affiliated faculty member at many of NYU’s interdisciplinary research centers, including the Center for Data Science and the Center for Urban Science and Progress. His best-selling and award-winning book, The Sharing Economy , was published by the MIT…
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Ahmed Shihab-Eldin is an Emmy-nominated journalist working for AJ+ as a Senior Correspondent. In 2010, Ahmed created, produced and co-hosted Al Jazeera English’s “The Stream,” an award-winning interactive talk show nominated for an Emmy award for Most Innovative Program in 2012. Ahmed joined VICE in 2015 where he served as a correspondent/producer for eight pieces on their groundbreaking, award-…
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Georgina Baker is IFC’s Vice President for Latin America and the Caribbean, and Europe and Central Asia. In this role, she’s responsible for a committed IFC portfolio of nearly $22 billion. Previously, she served IFC in two capacities: as Director of Syndications and as Deputy Treasurer, based in London, where she headed Treasury Operations for Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. As…
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Alice Albright, a U.S. national, comes to GPE with over 27 years of international experience that spans the private, non-profit, and public sectors. She previously served in the Obama Administration as the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank). Her previous experience includes serving as the Chief Financial and Investment…
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As Co-Chair of the Basic Education Coalition (BEC), Jerrold Keilson represents a diverse group of 25 leading organizations and academic institutions working together to promote global peace and prosperity through education. BEC seeks to apply the best of U.S. knowledge and strategy in support of the education development goals of the United States Government. BEC members are dedicated partners of…
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