Arun Jaitley, is India’s Union Minister of Finance and Corporate Affairs since 2014 and is a distinguished lawyer and prominent leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He is Leader of House, Rajya Sabha in Indian Parliament. He has held important portfolios of Information and Broadcasting, Disinvestment, Law and Justice, Defense, Shipping, Commerce and Industry as a Minister. He has made…
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Mr. Joachim von Amsberg is currently the Vice President at the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) where he is responsible for developing and implementing AIIB’s strategy and investment portfolio, as well as monitoring standards compliance and operational procedures.Prior to that, he was Vice President, Development Finance at the World Bank where was responsible for the replenishment and…
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As Managing Director and World Bank Group Chief Administrative Officer since February 2016, Shaolin Yang is responsible for a number of critical functions of the institution including: organizational strategy, budget and strategic planning, information technology, enterprise risk, shared services, corporate procurement, general services, corporate security, health and safety, ethics and business…
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Ray Offenheiser joined Oxfam America as its president in 1996. Under his leadership, Oxfam America has grown more than sevenfold, and repositioned itself in the US as an influential voice on international development and foreign policy. Prior to joining Oxfam, Ray represented the Ford Foundation in Bangladesh and the Andean and Southern Cone regions of South America. He has also directed programs…
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Mauricio Cárdenas has been the Minister of Finance and Public Credit of the Republic of Colombia since September 2012. Minister Cárdenas has held numerous important positions in the public and private sectors in Colombia, as well as in international organizations and academia. He has been Minister of Mines and Energy, Minister of Economic Development, Minister of Transport and Director of the…
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In 1983, while still at university, Lilianne Ploumen became a community outreach worker in the Crooswijk area of Rotterdam. Two years later she joined the Institute of Psychological Market Research (IPM), working in the statistics department and as a research project leader. IPM focuses on research-based consultancy. From 1990 to 1992 she was a marketing and research manager for Foster Parents…
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Sir Suma Chakrabarti is the sixth President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). He has held the position since 2012 and is in his second four-year term after being re-elected by the Bank’s shareholders. Sir Suma has spent a great deal of his professional career working in international development economics and policy-making, as well as in designing and implementing…
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Alfonso Prat-Gay was appointed Minister of Treasury and Public Finances of Argentina on December 10, 2015. Previously, he was a Member of the House of Representatives for the City of Buenos Aires (between 2009 and 2013), where he was President of the Financial Commission of the House of Representatives. Mr. Prat-Gay was president of the Central Bank between 2002 and 2004, during the Eduardo…
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Stephanie Ruhle is an anchor at MSNBC and co-anchor of Weekend TODAY on NBC. Ruhle previously served as anchor and managing editor for Bloomberg Television and editor-at-large for Bloomberg News, where she co-hosted Bloomberg , Bloomberg TV’s flagship morning show featuring global thought leaders across business, tech and media. In 2015, Ms. Ruhle produced and hosted the documentary "Haiti: Open…
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Mr. Malik currently heads a number of structured finance teams within Citi that span global project and infrastructure finance, financing for transportation assets, as well as structured tax-efficient borrowings and investments. Additionally, he is responsible for the U.S. debt Private Placement business. Mr. Malik has been with Citigroup and its different predecessor companies for 26 years.
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