Hanspeter Wyss is a Senior Program Officer at the World Bank's Development Economics - Prospects Group. In the Migration & Remittances team his responsibilities include the contribution to the implementation of the Global Knowledge Partnership on Migration and Development (KNOMAD), primarily in the areas of environmental change and migration, migrants’ rights, integration in host communities…
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Jean-Christophe Dumont has been the Head of the International Migration Division in the Direction for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs, OECD since 2010. He joined the OECD Secretariat in 2000 to work on international migration issues. He oversees the OECD annual flagship publication on migration International Migration Outlook and of numerous publications on the economic impact of…
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Novak Djokovic was born on May 22, 1987, in Belgrade, Serbia. He began playing tennis at the age of four. To date, he has won 53 ATP singles titles, including 8 Grand Slam trophies and 24 ATP Masters Series 1000 crowns. He was also a Bronze medalist at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and a winner of the Davis Cup championship with Team Serbia in 2010. Djokovic is currently ranked World No. 1. Djokovic’…
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Mr. Donnelly is the communications advisor for World Bank President Jim Yong Kim. He was vice president and senior editor at Burness Communications and founder of Long Tail Media. Prior to that, he was a journalist for 25 years, winning many awards in the past decade for his coverage of global development issues. He worked for the Boston Globe, covering foreign affairs from Washington and global…
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Yoka Brandt has been with UNICEF since February 2012 as the Deputy Executive Director for the Partnerships Group. She brings over 30 years of experience in international assistance and humanitarian emergency response. Before joining UNICEF, Ms. Brandt served as Director General for International Cooperation in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands since 2008, prior to which she was…
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Mina Al-Oraibi is a Yale World Fellow. She is journalist and political analyst focused on the Middle East, and was the Assistant Editor in Chief of Asharq Alawsat, the international daily pan-Arab newspaper for close to four years. From 2009-2011, she served as Washington D.C. Bureau Chief for Asharq Alawsat. She has covered the Geneva talks on Syria, Iraqi refugees and American and European…
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Meaza Ashenafi currently serves as an adviser on gender and women’s rights in the Capacity Development Division of UNECA. She is a very active attorney who advocates for the legal protection of women, the promotion of human rights and financial mediation in favor of women. In her native Ethiopia, she served as a High Court judge. As human rights adviser to the Ethiopian Constitution Commission…
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Yasmeen Hassan became the Global Executive Director of Equality Now in 2011 after having served as Deputy Executive Director and Director of Programs for three years. Before joining the organization, Ms. Hassan was with the United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women where she worked on the implementation of CEDAW and the Secretary-General’s study on violence against women. She has been…
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Augusto Lopez-Claros is the Director of the Global Indicators Department at the World Bank Group. Previously he was Chief Economist and Director of the Global Competitiveness Program at the World Economic Forum in Geneva. Before joining the Forum, he spent several years in the financial sector in London, with a particular focus on emerging markets and transition economies. During the 1990s he…
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During his 30 years working in the energy sector, Mr. Fernández has held positions as Development Officer and International Division Officer of Gener, a Chilean utility, leading the teams that developed Puerto Ventanas S.A., Norgener S.A., Guacolda S.A., and Eléctrica de Santiago S.A. in Chile. Mr. Fernández also led Gener’s team that evaluated and managed different privatization processes in…
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