Mahawa Kaba Wheeler took office as the Director for Women, Gender and Development Directorate at the African Union Commission in 2015. She has extensive professional experience in development programming and humanitarian relief assistance, with particular emphasis on gender, monitoring and evaluation, food security analysis, and mapping and value chain analysis. Prior to joining the AUC she…
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Haleh Bridi is the Director for the Africa External Communications and Partnerships (AFREC) unit in the Africa Region (AFR). She has more than 25 years of development experience working for the World Bank Group, mostly at senior level including serving as country director for Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius and Seychelles (AFR), and director of Regional Programs and Partnerships in the Middle East…
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Mr. Jin Liqun was appointed as the first President of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) in January 2016, after has been serving as AIIB’s President-designate since September 2015. Prior to that, he was Secretary-General of the Multilateral Interim Secretariat (MIS) , the entity tasked to prepare the establishment of AIIB. Before he joined the MIS, he served as Chairman of China…
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Bineta Diop took up her position as the African Union Special Envoy on Women, Peace and Security in 2014. She is the Founder and President of Femmes Africa Solidarité (FAS), and has led numerous peacebuilding programs, as well as election observer missions. She played a central role in involving women in peace negotiations and served as President of the African Union ECOSOCC Gender Cluster. She…
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Bruce Moats is Director of IFC Communications, a position he has held for the past 10 years. He is a member of the Bank Group's External and Corporate Relations extended management team, and oversees the Group's brand management. He serves as overall strategic communications and external affairs advisor for IFC. He is head of IFC's global communications network, responsible for delivering the…
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Ms. Slaughter is the President and CEO of New America and the Bert G. Kerstetter ’66 University Professor Emerita of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University. From 2009-2011 she served as the director of Policy Planning for the United States Department of State, the first woman to hold that position. Prior to her government service, Dr. Slaughter was the Dean of Princeton’s…
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Euphrasie Kouassi Yao took up her appointment as Minister of Women, Family and Protection of Children in January 2016, before which she was the Coordinator of the Côte d'Ivoire women's skills program. Prior to this she held several senior positions in the Ministry of Women, Family and Protection of Children, including technical advisor for cooperation in, director of coaching and socio economic…
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Ambassador Melanne Verveer is the executive director of the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security at Georgetown University, a founding partner of Seneca Point Global, a global women strategy firm, and a co-founder of Seneca Women. She served as the first U.S. Ambassador for Global Women’s Issues, and played a leadership role in the development of the U.S. National Action Plan on…
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Anne C. Richard has served as Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees, and Migration in the US State Department since 2012. Prior to her appointment, Ms. Richard was the vice president of government relations and advocacy for the International Rescue Committee (IRC), non-resident Fellow of the Center for Transatlantic Relations at Johns Hopkins University/SAIS and a board member of…
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Linda Etim is USAID’s Assistant Administrator for Africa, overseeing US development assistance funding for Sub-Saharan Africa. Prior to this appointment, she served as Deputy Assistant Administrator for Africa. Before joining USAID, she served on the National Security Council as the Director for East African Affairs, coordinating U.S. policy civil-military affairs, governance, economic growth,…
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