Zainab Hawa Bangura was appointed UN Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict in 2012. Prior to this, she served in the Government of Sierra Leone as Minister of Health and Sanitation, and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. Before entering Government, she managed the civilian component of the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL), and was actively involved…
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Zeinab Badawi is a Sudanese-British television and radio journalist, currently the presenter of Global Questions and Hard Talk for the BBC. Through her own production company she has produced and presented many programmes, including currently the definitive TV series of African history in association with UNESCO. Zeinab is one of the best-known broadcast journalists working in the field today. In…
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Mr. Nasser served 10 years of his career with the family owned Target Engineering Construction, executing on Oil & Gas related projects values in excess of one billion US Dollars. These projects covered substation EPC contracts, refinery expansions as well as the construction of generation plants. In 2006, following the successful sale of Target Engineering Construction to Arabtec…
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Adriano Afonso Maleiane is Mozambique’s Minister of Economy and Finance. Previously, he served as Governor of the Bank of Mozambique (1991-2006) where he oversaw the removal of the commercial banking arm and the restructuring of the Bank as purely a central bank. He participated in the foreign debt negotiation with the Paris and London clubs of creditors, which led to Mozambique’s HIPC debt…
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Luis Alberto Arce Catacora, is the head of the Ministry of Economy and Public Finances from Bolivia, since the beginning of Evo Morales Ayma‘s government, eleven years ago. He received an Msc in Economics from the University of Warwick in England in 1997. Previously in 1991, he graduated as Bachelor in Economics from the San Andres Major University (UMSA). He also graduated as an Accountant from…
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Francis Fragano is currently Regional Safeguards Adviser for the Latin America and Caribbean Region (LAC) of the World Bank and previously held the position in the South Asia Region. In addition to advising Bank staff and teams on safeguards, he coordinates the phase 3 consultations on the draft Environmental and Social Framework in his region. He is a biologist with over 25 years of experience…
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