Luis Porto is the Senior Advisor for Strategy and Organizational Development of the Organization of American States (OAS). He previously served as Vice Minister of Economy and Finance from August 2011 to April 2013, and as Deputy Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of Uruguay from May 2013 to March 1, 2015. He has worked as a senior consultant at both the national (in both the public and private…
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Aroldo Cedraz is President of the Federal Court of Accounts of Brazil (TCU) since 2015 and has served as Minister of the TCU in different roles since 2007. He has a doctorate in Veterinary Medicine from the Tierärztliche Hochschule, Hannover, a Master’s degree in Veterinary Medicine from the Federal University of Santa Maria, and a Bachelor’s degree in Veterinary Medicine from the Federal…
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Kevin Casas-Zamora is Senior Fellow and Director of the Peter D. Bell Rule of Law Program at the Inter-American Dialogue. He holds a law degree from the University of Costa Rica, a Master’s degree in Political Science from the University of Essex, and a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Oxford. He was previously Secretary for Political Affairs at the Organization of American…
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Ms. Quan Zheng is the AIIB’s Director General for Policy and Strategy since July 2016. Previously, she was Deputy Director General of the Department of International Economic and Financial Cooperation at the Ministry of Finance, China, with a portfolio including the AIIB, NDB and the G20 Investment and Infrastructure Working Group. She joined the Ministry of Finance in 1996, and has worked in…
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Indrajit Coomaraswamy born on April 03, 1953 had his early education at Royal College, Colombo and he completed his scholastic career at Harrow School. Subsequently, he obtained Bachelor of Art and Master’s Degrees from Cambridge University and his D Phil. Degree from the University of Sussex. Coomaraswamy joined the Central Bank of Sri Lanka in 1973 as a Staff Officer and served as such for 16…
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Kimberly Ann Elliott is a Senior Fellow with the Center for Global Development and the author or co-author of numerous books and articles on trade policy and globalization, economic sanctions, and food security. In 2009-10 she chaired the CGD working group that produced the report, Open Markets for the Poorest Countries: Trade Preferences that Work, and before that, authored the book Delivering…
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Pravin Krishna is Chung Ju Yung Distinguished Professor of International Economics and Business at Johns Hopkins University (School of Advanced International Studies and Department of Economics), Visiting Senior Research Scholar and Deputy Director of the Deepak and Neera Raj Center for Indian Economic Policy at Columbia University and Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic…
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Anubha Bhonsle is an award-winning journalist from India. She is the Executive Editor, CNN-News18, currently based in Washington, D.C, where she is continuing her work on the intersection of gender, violence and development as a Fulbright Humphrey Fellow. Anubha is the author of Mother, Where’s My Country, a work of reportage from Manipur, a state that lives under the shadow of the gun. She has a…
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Macky Tall is responsible for CDPQ’s infrastructure investment strategy. In his role, he oversees the teams that carry out infrastructure investment activities worldwide. He is also in charge of CDPQ Infra, a CDPQ subsidiary whose mandate is to take over the planning, execution and operation of public infrastructure projects. He serves on CDPQ’s Executive Committee and Investment-Risk Committee.…
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Jingdong Hua is Vice President and Treasurer of IFC. He is responsible for managing IFC’s financial position, safeguarding its international triple-A rating and maintaining its standing as a premier issuer in the global capital markets. He oversees liquid assets, market borrowings, and risk-management instruments totaling over $100 billion. Under Mr. Hua’s leadership, IFC focuses on capital…
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