Gargee Ghosh leads the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s international policy team as Director of Development Policy & Finance. The team develops and funds innovative ideas to make finance more effective in solving the problems of extreme poverty around the world. The team also oversees Gates Foundation relationships with multilateral development banks, aid policy bodies, and economic…
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Dana Reizniece-Ozola has been Minister of Finance since February 2016. She was Minister of Economics from 2014 to 2016. She has been elected as a Member of the 10th, 11th and 12th Parliament of the Republic of Latvia; worked as the Chairperson of the Commission on Education, Culture and Science; Member of the Legal Affairs Commission; and Member of the European Affairs Commission. During her…
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Dato’ Sri Idris Jala is the Advisor to the Prime Minister on the National Transformation Programme and CEO of PEMANDU, an organization tasked with spearheading Malaysia’s transition towards high income status by 2020. For six years, he also served as Minister in the Malaysia Prime Minister's Department. In 2014, Bloomberg placed Idris Jala among the top 10 most influential policy makers in the…
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Helen Tarnoy co-led the arrangement of the original financing for Aldwych Intl., and its re-financing in February 2009. In the early days of Aldwych, Tarnoy led the acquisition of a stake in CEC, the private Zambian transmission business, where she became Deputy Chairman, and co-led the acquisition of the 600MW Kelvin power plant in Johannesburg. She also supported the development, financing and…
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Seydou Bouda is Executive Director from Burkina Faso for Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cabo Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Cote d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Niger, Republic of Congo, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal and Togo. Prior to joining the WBG Mr. Bouda served…
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Mary Robinson is President of the Mary Robinson Foundation – Climate Justice. She served as President of Ireland from 1990-1997 and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights from 1997-2002. She is a member of the Elders and the Club of Madrid and the recipient of numerous honors and awards including the Presidential Medal of Freedom from the President of the United States Barack Obama. She sits on…
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Ann Lee Hussey has made the eradication of polio and the alleviation of suffering by polio survivors her life’s work. In the past 12 years she has actively participated in 25 volunteer NID (National Immunization Days) teams organizing and leading the last 18 teams herself, choosing to take those NIDs to places that do not often see westerners – Chad, Mali, Bangladesh, Niger, Nigeria as well as…
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Dr. Deborah K.W. Walters is a neuroscientist by profession with training in physics and engineering and professional academic experience at Unity College, the State University of New York, and the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom. She has served as the director and supporter of Safe Passage (Camino Seguro), a nonprofit organization that provides educational and social services to…
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Razia Jan, an Afghan native living in the United States, has worked for decades to build connections between Afghans and Americans while improving the lives of young women and girls in Afghanistan. She is the founder and director of the Zabuli Education Center, a school that serves more than 430 girls in Deh’Subz, Afghanistan. The girls study mathematics, English, science, and technology, as well…
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Michael has been working with the research unit since 1998. For eleven of those years he has also been a (part-time) Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. His current research focuses on strategies for enhancing state capability for implementation, on crafting more mixed methods to assess 'complex' development interventions. In addition to more than 75…
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