Count von Count: An original member of the Muppets, the vampire’s main purpose is to educate children about simple mathematical concepts, most notably counting. By encouraging math, as well as making it more fun for children, the Count promotes a higher rate of learning. With periodic segments such as The Number of the Day, the Count makes math a routine occurrence, so as to habituate children to…
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Raya is a six year old humanoid rod puppet. She’s an aqua-greeny-bluey color, with long, braided, dark brown hair. She’s always very neat, and clean, because she pays special attention to her hygiene. Raya is a mine of information, some of it relatively arbitrary and doesn’t help us at all (for example, she knows that giraffes only have seven bones in their necks, just like we do) and some of it…
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Hans Rosling is a Professor of international health, co-founder of the Gapminder Foundation and international educator in global health trends. He is also a member of the Swedish Academy of Sciences. When working as a young doctor in Mozambique, Professor Rosling discovered a previously unrecognized paralytic disease that his research team named Konzo. His 20 years of research since has focused…
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Hartwig Schafer became the World Bank’s Vice President for the South Asia Region on July 1, 2018. In managing the World Bank’s engagement in South Asia to end extreme poverty and boost shared prosperity, Schafer leads relations with Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. He manages a portfolio of financial support worth more than $50 billion. Before…
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Ed Mountfield is Vice President for Operations Policy and Country Services (OPCS) at the World Bank. In this role, he works across all regions on the programming, coordination, and delivery of the Bank’s country services, including project and program financing, and advisory services and analytics. He oversees the World Bank’s corporate policies on operations and country engagement and supports…
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Alison Langley has honed her reporting skills as a foreign correspondent with datelines across Europe, and her stories have appeared in a variety of publications, including Columbia Journalism Review, The New York Times, The Guardian, The FT and The Independent. She also lectures in journalism at Webster University Vienna.
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Hervé Boulhol is a Senior Economist with the OECD’s Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs. Since March 2014, he has been Head of the Pensions and Population Aging unit. Prior to this, he worked with the OECD’s Economics Department on Country Studies, heading the France and Poland Desk. Prior to joining the OECD in 2007, Boulhol worked with several financial institutions: as an…
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Sergei Scherbov is the Deputy Program Director of IIASA's World Population Program (POP), Director of Demographic Analysis at the Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital (IIASA, VID/ÖAW, WU), and Leader of the Population Dynamics and Forecasting Research Group at the Vienna Institute of Demography (VID), Austrian Academy of Sciences. He is also Guest Professor at the…
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Mr. Hans Jörg Schelling is Minister of Finance of the Republic of Austria since September 1, 2014. Before heading the Ministry of Finance, Mr. Schelling served from 2009–2014 as Chairman of the Managing Board of the Association of Austrian Social Security Institutions. In addition, among others, he also served as Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Austrian Social Security Pension Fund from…
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