Elise Bean was first hired by Senator Carl Levin (D-MI) in 1985, to serve as an attorney on the U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. In 2003, Senator Levin appointed her staff director and chief counsel of the Committee’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, which he chaired. Ms. Bean handled a variety of complex investigations, hearings, and legislation,…
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Brigitte Alepin is a Canadian businesswoman, a Harvard trained tax specialist and tax policy advisor. She has led major research projects for governments, Fortune 500 corporations and NGOs, in various fields including environmental and post-Kyoto negotiations, oil and gas taxation and health care. She has also taught courses in tax and tax policies in Canadian universities. Her written work…
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Carl Levin is Michigan's longest-serving U.S. senator (Jan. 3, 1979, to Jan. 3, 2015). He is chair of the Levin Center at Wayne Law and serves as the Law School’s distinguished legislator in residence, co-teaching courses on various subjects, including tax law and policy and legislative process and oversight. In addition, he is senior counsel to Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn LLP. During his…
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Jeremias N. Paul, Jr. is a seasoned government official, having held various positions in the Department of Finance since 1990. In more than two decades now, he has practically done the rounds of all the units in the Department, including being Assistant Secretary of the International Finance Group and being Undersecretary of the Corporate Affairs Group. In 2005-2006, he served as Alternate…
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Sonja Hunter is the Chief Executive Officer of the Samoa Tourism Authority and the Chairperson of the South Pacific Tourism Organisation. She has a Master in Business Administration from the University of the South Pacific and is a graduate of the Rhema Bible Training Centre, South Pacific. Sonja Hunter has been working in Travel and Tourism for more than 25 years.
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John has worked in tourism for more than 30 years, mostly in emerging markets where he specializes in tourism development and tourism investment generation. His experience extends across the developing world – in Africa, Asia Latin America and the Caribbean, South Eastern Europe and the Middle East. He has spent many years working in tourism in the Pacific Islands advising governments on tourism…
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Ms. Ellingson has been the Director-General for the Office of Tourism, Arts and Culture (OTAC) since 2010. She is a former diplomat who served as Second Secretary at the PNG Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia in the early 1980s. Ms. Ellingson is a strong advocate for women’s empowerment through education, business, networking, technology and innovation, and is a supporter for the Women in Leadership…
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Daniel Spitzer is Chairman & CEO of Mountain Hazelnuts Group, a major agri-business that is planting 10 million hazelnut trees on deforested mountain slopes in Bhutan. The Company’s mission is to generate strong financial returns while creating sustainable income for 15% of Bhutan’s population, while addressing the country’s key social and environmental issues. Since 1993, Daniel has…
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Ms. Shari Spiegel is Chief of the Policy Analysis & Development Branch in the Financing for Development Office (FfDO) of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs at the United Nations (UN-DESA). She previously served as the Executive Director of IPD, a think-tank at Columbia University founded by Nobel Laureate, Joseph Stiglitz. Ms. Spiegel has extensive private sector experience,…
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Tom Arnold is the Director General of the Institute of International and European Affairs (IIEA). Since September 2014, he has also served as Interim Coordinator of the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement. Tom is a former CEO of Concern Worldwide, Ireland's largest humanitarian organisation. Appointed as CEO in October 2001, he led the organisation through a period of growth in budgets,…
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