Riccardo Puliti, an Italian national, is the Vice President for Infrastructure at the World Bank as of August 16, 2021. In this position he leads the Bank's global efforts to build effective infrastructure in developing and emerging markets and supports the World Bank Group’s strategic business priorities such as the climate change action plan. He oversees the Bank's critical work across energy…
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Vivien, a British national, joined the Bank in 1999 as a Young Professional. She previously worked as a Managing Consultant of Oxford Economic Research Associates Ltd in the UK, advising private and public sector clients in the water and energy industries, both in Europe and Latin America, focusing particularly on the economic regulation of utilities. She holds a Doctorate in Economics from…
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During his career, Rémy Rioux, Senior Advisor at the Court of Auditors, has alternately held responsibilities in France and to support development in Africa. He works for France’s economic and financial policy and conducted control missions in the energy and defense sectors at the Court of Auditors from 1997 to 2000, and subsequently from 2002 to 2004. At the Ministry of the Interior from 2000 to…
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Friederike Röder is France director at ONE and also the global lead for the G7 and G20. ONE is a campaigning and advocacy organisation of more than seven million people around the world taking action to end extreme poverty and preventable disease, particularly in Africa. Prior to joining ONE in 2011, Friederike worked for the OECD, the German International Cooperation (GIZ), and the Arab Reform…
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Gaël Giraud is Chief Economist and Executive Director of the Research and Knowledge Directorate of the Agence Française de Développement since January 2015. Specialized in alternative measures of development, general equilibrium theory, game theory, finance and energy issues, Mr Giraud is senior fellow researcher at the CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research) and at the University of Paris…
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Yongmei Zhou is a co-Director of the World Development Report on Governance and the Law. She received her PhD in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley before joining the World Bank as a Young Professional in 1999. She has extensive operational experience with governance reform and institutional development in Africa, South Asia and the fragile and conflict-affected states. Her…
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Party Swedish Social Democratic Party Areas of responsibility • Central government budget • Fiscal policy • International economic cooperation • Taxes Personal Born 1967. Lives in Nacka. Married. Two children. Educational background 1992–1995 Postgraduate studies in economics, Stockholm School of Economics 1995 Harvard University, USA 1994 Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna 1992 B.Sc. in…
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Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia is Vice President of the Republic of Ghana and head of Ghana’s Economic Management Team. He is an economist and banker by training. He served as Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Ghana between 2006 and 2009. He also served as Resident Representative for the African Development Bank in Zimbabwe from 2011 to 2012. He was a visiting scholar at the University of British…
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Following an extensive career focusing on environment and development in government and international organizations, Erik Solheim was elected to become Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) on May 13, 2016. Prior to joining UNEP, Solheim was the chair of the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). As head of…
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Will Morris is currently Deputy Global Tax Policy Leader at PwC, having joined the firm on April 1, 2017. After private practice in London and Washington, DC, he joined the IRS in 1995, moving to the Office of Tax Policy at the US Treasury in January 1997 to work on international tax policy. Will was Associate International Tax Counsel until March 2000, when he joined General Electric, first in…
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