Albert Zeufack, a Cameroonian national, is the World Bank’s Africa Region Chief Economist. He joined the World Bank in 1997 as a research economist in the Macroeconomics Division of the Research Department. Since then, he has held several positions in the East Asia and Pacific region, as well as in the Macroeconomics and Fiscal Management Global Practice with a particular focus on Africa, Europe…
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Thierry graduated from Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées engineering school in Paris and began his career in Malaysia with the construction firm of GTM International. He then joined France’s Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations where he held several positions with its engineering subsidiary Egis Projects, moving up from project manager, then director of concession projects to his appointment…
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José Carlos Ugaz became President of PROETICA, Transparency International’s chapter in Peru, in 2002, then an Individual Member of Transparency International in 2008. A lawyer by training, Ugaz served as Ad-Hoc State Attorney of Peru in several corruption cases. During the Fujimori-Montesinos affair (2000- 2002), his office opened more than 200 cases against 1,500 members of the Fujimori network…
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Jane Nelson is Director of the Corporate Responsibility Initiative at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, and a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. She was a director and senior adviser at the International Business Leaders Forum from 1993 to 2012, and has been a senior associate with the Institute for Sustainability Leadership at Cambridge University. In…
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Philippe Le Houérou is CEO of IFC. Since joining IFC in March 2016, Mr. Le Houérou has led the organization’s efforts to create new markets in difficult environments and redefine development finance by promoting initiatives and reforms to unlock additional private investment. Mr. Le Houérou previously held leadership positions at the World Bank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and…
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Priti Patel was first elected as the first Member of Parliament for the Witham Constituency in May 2010 and was subsequently re-elected in May 2015. Born in London and educated at a comprehensive school in Watford, Priti went on to study economics at Keele University before completing her postgraduate studies at the University of Essex. In July 2014 Priti was appointed as Exchequer Secretary to…
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Mr. Marah is the Governor of the Central Bank of Sierra Leone. He served as Minister of Finance and Economic Development of Sierra Leone from Dec. 2012 to March 2016. He is known for introducing discipline in budget execution and economic management reforms. He is Chair of the g7+ (as association led by finance ministers of 20 fragile and post-conflict states) and Co-Chair of the International…
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Isabella Lövin became cabinet minister in October 2014. Acclaimed journalist and author until 2009, she then became an elected member of European Parliament representing the Green Party, where she served until becoming minister. As the leading member of the Greens in the EP’s Fisheries and Development Committees, she was involved in the reform of the EU Common Fisheries Policy and has pushed to…
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Jean-Claude Juncker is a Luxembourger politician who has been President of the European Commission since 2014, tasked with an ambitious jobs growth package for Europe. Previously Juncker was Prime Minister of Luxembourg from 1995 to 2013, as well as Minister of Finance from 1989 to 2009. He was the longest-serving head of any national government in the EU, and one of the longest-serving…
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Louis-Paul Motazé (born 31 January 1959) is a Cameroonian politician who has served in the government of Cameroon as Minister of the Economy since 2015. He previously served as Minister of the Economy from 2007 to 2011 and as Secretary-General of the Office of the Prime Minister of Cameroon from 2011 to 2015. Motazé has held important posts at Cameroon Airlines from 1989 to 1999: he was its…
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