Daniel Belliveau is the founder and CEO of CF Global Holdings (Coffee Flour) with over 30 years of engineering and management experience in coffee and other food related businesses. He is the inventor of Coffee Flour, with expertise in complex problem solving, consumer goods manufacturing, business systems integration, procurement, and vendor management. He has held senior leadership roles in…
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Gastón Acurio is a chef, writer, entrepreneur, and champion of Peruvian cuisine. With 33 restaurants in 12 countries, 20 publications in his portfolio, and a weekly cable TV show, Acurio has received worldwide acclaim for starting a gastronomical revolution in Peru. This goal is at the forefront of all of his concepts, projects, and community organizations. In the late 1980s, following the advice…
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Uniminuto University is a private not-for-profit educational institution and an IFC client. It began operations in 1992 with 240 students, and today has over 120,000. Prior to becoming Rector, Mr. Lopez served as Advisory General Rector, Uniminuto and before that, was Rector at the University of Ibague for 15 years. An Electronic Engineer by training, he has a Masters in Science & Technology…
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Minister Bustamante Suárez is a lawyer with a Masters degree in Public Administration and Management. She has more than 15 years of experience in public management, working mainly on issues relating to education, children and youth, work and employment, social development, at-risk populations and international development. She has extensive work experience in advisory and high-level management in…
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Claudia Belmont has recently been named Country Manager at Belcorp, a leading beauty direct-sales company, with presence in 15 countries in Latin America. Previously she held the position of Director of Corporate Sales where she created a segmented Value Proposition allowing for more targeted growth initiatives for the over one million women beauty representatives. She focused company’s resources…
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Martín Abregú is vice president of the foundation’s Democracy, Rights and Justice program. He leads the foundation’s global grant making on human and civil rights, effective and transparent governance, democratic participation, strengthening civil society and gender, sexuality and reproductive justice. He also oversees the foundation’s regional programming in Brazil, Mexico and Central America,…
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Gabriel Jaime Franco, a native of Medellin, Colombia, is a Member of the Editorial Board of Prometeo and the International Poetry Festival of Medellin. He has published En la Ruta de Dia (1989), La Tierra de la Sal y Reaprendizaje del Alfabeto (National Poetry Prize Fire in Words, 1997). He has been included in the anthologies Five young poets, Dissidence Limbo, Best's meet (Brazil – Colombia),…
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The young musicians in this Orchestra have performed around the world. They've even met European royalty. Yet they live in a garbage dump in South America! Cateura, located on the outskirts of Asuncion in Paraguay, is a community formed around the landfill. Most people here make their living by selling plastic bottles or anything they can recycle from garbage. There is trash everywhere, and…
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Edward Miguel is the Oxfam Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics and Faculty Director of the Center for Effective Global Action at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught since 2000. Ted's main research focus is African economic development, including work on the economic causes and consequences of violence; the impact of ethnic divisions on local collective action…
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Ollanta Moisés Humala Tasso was born on June 27, 1962 and is married to Nadine Heredia. They have two daughters (Illary and Naira) and one son (Samin). He is the third of seven children born of the union of Isaac Humala and Elena Tasso. Before enrolling in the Academy of Army Officers (Escuela de Oficiales del Ejército) in 1979, he pursued studies in animal science at the Universidad Nacional…
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