Ambassador Daniel A. Sepulveda serves as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State and U.S. Coordinator for International Communications and Information Policy. In this capacity, Sepulveda has served as a Vice Chair to the 2016 OECD Ministerial Meeting on the Digital Economy, and as the lead U.S. negotiator for the 2015 World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) +10 Review, a United Nations General…
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Paul Danahar is the BBC's Americas Bureau Chief based in Washington. Before that he was the BBC’s Middle East Bureau Chief and ran the organisation's news coverage of the Arab Spring for which he won two Emmy's and a Peabody. He is the author of the book ‘The New Middle East: the world after the Arab Spring’. In 2003 he was awarded the MBE by HM Queen Elizabeth for his work as the BBC's Baghdad…
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Kim Ghattas covers international affairs and the Hillary Clinton campaign for the BBC from her base in Washington D.C. She writes a regular column for Foreign Policy magazine. She was the BBC's State Department correspondent from 2008 until 2013, travelling regularly with the Secretary of State. She wrote a NYT best seller The Secretary- a Journey with Hillary Clinton from Beirut to the Heart of…
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Teresa C. Barger is the CEO and CIO of Cartica. Ms. Barger spent 21 years at the International Finance Corporation investing in emerging markets companies in nearly all regions of the world. Almost all of her investments were in equity with a few debt investments. At IFC, among other positions, she was Division Manager for Africa, Deputy Director of Credit/Investment Review, and Director of…
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José Rosero is the Executive Director of the National Institute of Censuses and Statistics of Ecuador and former President of the Statistical Conference of the Americas. He is a trained economist and holds a master´s degree in economics of development and a Ph.D. in economics from Amsterdam University. He has served as Vice Minister of Social Development, as Technical Secretary of the Social…
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Yondela Silimela is the Executive Head of the Development Planning Department in the City of Johannesburg. Prior to returning to the City in 2012, she worked with the Public Investment Corporation in the Property Investment Division. Her career spans in excess of 15 years in the local government and development policy and implementation environment, having previously worked on the National Urban…
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Paola Tapia has a Law degree from the Catholic University of Chile and a master's degree in Law from the Catholic University of Valparaiso. She also have degrees in Public Sector Management and Public Policy from the University of Chile. For 13 years, she has held several positions in the Ministry of Transport and Telecommunications. She was Vice-President of the Board of the Metropolitan Trains…
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Alberto Torres graduated from the Autonomous Institute of Technology of Mexico (Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, ITAM) with a Bachelor’s degree in Economics. Subsequently, he successfully completed hisJ PhD studies in Economics at New York University (NYU). In December 2015, Alberto Torres joined the Ministry of Finance as Deputy Undersecretary for Public Credit, office responsible for…
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Wessemius-Chibrac has over 20 years of experience in banking and investment including at ABN AMRO Rothschild in Paris and London, and Banque Nationale de Paris in Equity Advisory. Since June 2013, she has led investment activities of Cordaid, managing EUR 80m of debt and equity investments in MFIs and SMEs in fragile and developing countries. She is also Secretary of the Board of PYME Capital…
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Clemente del Valle is currently the President of Financiera de Desarrollo Nacional a government owned Infrastructure Development Financial Institution. He is responsible for transforming the institution into a catalyst for infrastructure financing in Colombia. Mr. del Valle is highly regarded in the public and private financial sector in Latin-American; he has extensive experience in capital…
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