Sebastián Nieto Parra is the Head of Latin America and the Caribbean at the OECD Development Centre. His research interests include financing for development, economic development, infrastructure and connectivity policies and political economy in emerging economies. Before joining the OECD, Mr. Nieto Parra was an economist for Latin America at Santander Bank, Madrid. Prior to that, he worked on…
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Maria Fernanda Garza is Chair of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and is part of the group of advisors and leaders of the B20 and the United Nations Internet Governance Forum. From Mexico, she is the CEO of Orestia, business leader, strong advocate of business ethics, board member of several business organizations. She was VP of Employers at the 98th Session of the International Labour…
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José Viñals was appointed to Standard Chartered PLC in October 2016 and became Group Chairman in December 2016. He also Chairs the Governance and Nomination Committee. José was appointed Chairman of Standard Chartered Bank in April 2019. José has substantial experience in the international regulatory arena and has exceptional understanding of the economic, financial and political dynamics of our…
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The Hon. Nigel Clarke, DPhil., MP, is Jamaica’s Minister of Finance and the Public Service and is Member of Parliament for St Andrew Northwestern. He has served as Ambassador of Economic Affairs where he represented Jamaica’s interests with multilateral institutions and as a Senator in the Upper House of the Jamaican Parliament between 2013 and 2015. Minister Clarke’s public sector career…
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Dr. Karen E. Young is a political economist focusing on the Gulf, the broader MENA region and the intersection of energy, finance and security. She is a Senior Research Scholar at the Columbia University Center on Global Energy Policy. She was a Senior Fellow and Founding Director of the Program on Economics and Energy at the Middle East Institute, and currently serves as chair of the program's…
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Paul Salem is president and CEO of the Middle East Institute. He focuses on issues of political change, transition, and conflict as well as the regional and international relations of the Middle East. Salem is the author and editor of a number of books and reports including Escaping the Conflict Trap: Toward Ending Civil Wars in the Middle East (ed. with Ross Harrison, MEI 2019); Winning the…
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Current Minister of Transport & Civil Aviation (MoTCA) of the Federal Government of Somalia. Honorable Fardowso Osman Egal is a Somali politician and a committed and passionate public servant. She is currently serving as a Member of Somali Federal Parliament. Between 2019 – 2022, Honorable Egal served as the state minister at Ministry of Labor, Youth and Sports of Puntland State of Somalia.…
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Hon. Aaron Farrugia is Malta’s Minister for Transport, Infrastructure and Capital Projects. He previously served as Minister for the Environment, Climate Change and Planning after serving as Parliamentary Secretary for European Funds and Social Dialogue at the Ministry for European Affairs and Equality. Farrugia was elected to the House of Representatives of Malta in June 2017. As an economist,…
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Christoph became the CEO of the Smart Freight Centre in Mai 2022. Until the end of 2021, Christoph was a Member of the Executive Committee for the World Economic Forum, heading the Global Mobility platform that includes the Forum´s initiatives around sustainability and digitization in the supply chain, automotive, aviation and aerospace industry. Before, he was Managing Director of the European…
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Marc Levinson is an independent historian and economist. He worked for many years as a journalist, becoming finance and economics editor of The Economist in London. He spent a decade at JPMorgan Chase, developing a unique industry economics function and initiating the bank’s environmental research for investors. He later served as a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and managed…
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