Davis Wang is a co-founder and CEO of Mobike. A veteran of China’s tech sector, under his leadership Mobike has grown from a small Shanghai-based start-up to one of the world’s most dynamic, fastest-growing companies - and the global leader in bike-sharing, conducting 20 million rides daily across more than 200 cities around the world. Prior to joining Mobike, Davis was Shanghai General Manager…
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Robin Chase is a transportation entrepreneur. She is co-founder and former CEO of Zipcar, the largest carsharing company in the world; Buzzcar, a peer to peer carsharing service in France (now merged with Drivy); and GoLoco, an online ridesharing community. She is also co-founder of Veniam, a vehicle communications company building the networking fabric for the Internet of Moving Things. She is…
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David McCauley leads WWF’s work on domestic and international public policy and finance. He joined WWF in early 2013 from the Asian Development Bank. At WWF, he manages engagement with public sector institutions in the U.S. as well as relations with multilateral organizations such as the World Bank, the Global Environment Facility and the Green Climate Fund. Dr. McCauley’s career has focused on…
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David Pilling is the Africa editor of the Financial Times . He was previously Asia editor and formerly Tokyo Bureau Chief for the FT from January 2002 to August 2008. His column covers business, investment, politics and economics. He joined the FT in 1990. He has worked in London as an editor, in Chile and Argentina as a correspondent and covered the global pharmaceutical and biotechnology…
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Mejia has been working with DNP (Department of National Planning) since September 2014. He was earlier head of the Directorate of Macroeconomic Policy in the Ministry of Finance. He has served as a researcher at the Central Bank, specializing in macroeconomics and international economics, and as a researcher at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). He has a doctorate from the University of…
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Gillian Tett serves as US managing editor, leading the FT’s editorial operations in the region across all platforms. She writes weekly columns for the Financial Times, covering a range of economic, financial, political and social issues throughout the globe. Tett previously served as assistant editor, US managing editor from 2010-2012, and prior to this as assistant editor responsible for the…
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Nancy Birdsall is a senior fellow and president emeritus of the Center for Global Development, having served as founding president for its first 15 years from 2001-2016. Her current research areas include the roles and financing of the multilateral development banks; climate finance; inequality and the middle class in developing countries; and the long-run effect of modern contraception on women'…
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Brian Ndyaguma is a 28-year old project manager and entrepreneur with over 6 years working experience in business development, acceleration and innovation hub management having worked with Uganda’s leading Innovation hubs. He is also experienced with the creation of short impactful curriculums for startup growth especially in incubators and has trained and mentored budding entrepreneurs and…
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At 31, Shelly-Ann Dinnall is a third-generation poultry farmer, who has supplied chickens for Jamaica Broilers for 11 years. She started earning an income from age 17, selling mangoes from the farm, buying and selling electronics, and buying-repairing-selling crashed cars. Having started studying business at university and moved by an entrepreneurial spirit, her initial plan was to launch her own…
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