Catherine McKenna practiced competition and international trade law in Canada and Indonesia and was senior negotiator with the United Nations Peacekeeping Mission in East Timor. She also served as senior advisor on the former Chief Justice Antonio Lamer’s review of Canada’s military justice system. Catherine co-founded Canadian Lawyers Abroad, a charitable organization that works in developing…
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Marcel Fratzscher is President of DIW Berlin, one of the leading economic research institutes and think tanks in Europe, and Professor of Macroeconomics and Finance at Humboldt-University Berlin. His prior professional experience includes work as Head of the International Policy Analysis at the European Central Bank (ECB), where he worked from 2001 to 2012; the Peterson Institute for…
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Ursula Müller is the German Executive Director to the Board of Executive Directors at the World Bank Group. Most recently she served as head of the Directorate General for Policy Issues and Political Governance of Bilateral Development Cooperation in the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development. In addition, Ursula has enjoyed a career with the German Federal Foreign…
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John Prideaux joined The Economist as Political Correspondent in 2004. Prior to this he wrote for The Economist, the Financial Times and the New Statesman as a freelancer, and worked as a researcher in the House of Commons and the European Parliament. In addition to covering British politics, he has spent time as India Correspondent in Delhi and Finance Correspondent in London. In 2007 he was…
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Cindy Mi is the founder and CEO of VIPKID, an education technology company that connects K‐8 students in China with teachers in North America for online English immersion. Founded in 2013, VIPKID has become one of China’s leading education startups, growing 40% month over month and attracting investments from Northern Light Venture Capital, Innovation Works, Matrix Partners, and Sequoia Capital.…
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Le Quoc Minh is editor-in-chief of VietnamPlus which delivers news in five languages. He is the person behind Vietnam News Agency’s new media technologies development including a unique news application that runs on 500 different mobile phones. His various innovative journalism projects include RapNewsPlus which deliver news in rap music to young audience, a pioneering infographics project as…
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Jason Clay is SVP, Markets and Executive Director, the Markets Institute at WWF-US. His focus is on spotting global issues and trends that affect WWF’s conservation mission and strategies with a particular focus on soft commodities, e.g. agriculture (plant based and livestock), seafood (aquaculture and wild caught), and forests. Over the course of his career he has worked on a family farm and in…
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Rockström is an internationally recognized scientist on global sustainability issues, where he led the development of the new Planetary Boundaries framework for human development in the current era of rapid global change. He is a leading scientist on global water resources, with about 25 years of experience from applied water research in tropical regions, and more than 100 research publications…
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Dr. Juan José Freijo, is the Global Head of Sustainability at Brambles. He has worldwide responsibility for the definition and implementation of the company’s sustainability strategy, based on its circular business model of continuously sharing and reusing assets. He also leads a global team focused on programs to reduce Brambles’ environmental impact, improve communities and develop sustainable…
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Fernando Anibal Capellan was born in Santiago de los Caballeros in the Dominican Republic on February 9th, 1959. His business career began in the 1980s, when he founded Grupo M while studying industrial engineering. A textile firm, Grupo M introduced advanced production technologies, efficient manufacturing systems, modern human resource management, and a commitment to employees and the community…
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