Blogger, humorist and math student Siyanda Mohutsiwa explores African topics both weighty (reviving Pan¬Africanism) and witty (“5 things NOT to say when trying to seduce an Afrikaner”). Her columns for African media outlets like the Mail & Guardian, Za News, and her own website Siyanda Writes have gained a loyal following. But when Mohutsiwa’s hashtag #IfAfricaWasABar exploded on Twitter, the…
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Marwa Moaz is the cofounder of El Mashroua and her vision is to create a pioneering world-class social enterprise that transforms the entertainment business into a force for good. Marwa plays a key role in management, recruiting, international strategy and creative format development. She oversees the brand and weaving social impact objectives into the storylines to achieve targeted results. Her…
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Nick Martin is an educator, technologist, and social entrepreneur with over ten years of experience. He is the founder and CEO of TechChange, a Washington DC-based social enterprise that provides online training for social change. The TechChange model for technology training has been featured in the New York Times, Forbes, Economist, Fast Company and more. Nick is a PopTech Social Innovation…
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Jackie Chang manages global developers on the Free Basics Platform, part of Facebook’s Internet.org initiative to bring Internet access to the remaining two-thirds of the world without it. Free Basics makes the Internet accessible to more people by providing them access to a range of free basic services, including news, education, health, local jobs, sports, communication, and local government…
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In his role as the head of the Secretariat of the Consultative Council on Improvement of Investment Climate under the President of the Republic of Tajikistan, Numon Abdughafforzoda leads the Council’s efforts to provide public-private dialogue and promote necessary economic reform for improvement of investment and entrepreneurship climate. The Secretariat is the executive body of the Council and…
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Amirali Batada is a co-founder of the Global Partnership for Youth in Development, an initiative of the Leadership, Learning and Innovation Practice of the World Bank Group. Amirali has focused his work and research on examining the driving forces of youth marginalization and deploying interventions for positive youth development. Amirali has collaborated with academic institutions, CSOs,…
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Asli Senkal joined the World Bank in 2015 as an economist and since then, she has worked on growth, productivity, and fiscal policy in a range of low and middle income countries and more recently in the office of the Vice President of Operations Policy. Prior to joining the Bank, Asli was an assistant professor in Turkey. Aslı holds a PhD from University of Virginia. She is based in Washington, D…
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