Born in 1951 in Pozarevac. He received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees and a PhD at the Belgrade Faculty of Economics. He did his post-doctoral studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He worked as an assistant at the Institute of International Politics and Economics in Belgrade and as an assistant at the Belgrade Faculty of Economics, and then as an assistant professor and…
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Nigel is a product manager for Google’s Crisis Response team, which is changing how citizens stay informed during crises by providing information and tools to help people collaborate during emergencies and build resilient communities. Before joining Google in 2011, Nigel led R&D on humanitarian systems at Microsoft and spent several years at the United Nations helping lead pandemic…
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Andrew Zolli works at the intersection of global innovation, foresight, social change and resilience. He is the author of Resilience: Why Things Bounce Back and also serves as an advisor to Andrew to Planet Labs, Data Kind and the Garrison Institute. From 2003-2014 he was the creative and curatorial force behind PopTech, a renowned innovation and social change network. He has been a Fellow of the…
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Mr. Kashdan is a recognized authority on personality, well-being and social relationships. He has published more than 150 scholarly articles on how to foster and sustain happiness and meaning in life, strength use and development, stress and anxiety, mindfulness, gratitude, social relationships, and self-regulation. These contributions have been recognized through the receipt of early career…
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Bonnie McClafferty is the director of the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition’s (GAIN) Agriculture for Nutrition Global Program as well as director of the organization’s U.S. Office. The Agriculture for Nutrition program at GAIN seeks to unlock obstacles along nutritious food supply chains to make diverse and nutritious diets accessible to the poor and undernourished. She has spent the better…
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Anne-Marie Steyn is the Shamba Shape Up Account Manager, based in Nairobi. Under her management, Shamba Shape Up has grown from a 3-month a year Kenya-only TV series to a 6-month a year regional TV series backed up by a call center and mobile information service. Ms. Steyn is a sustainability expert with a background in vegetable, flower, and dairy farming in Kenya and water management in UK. She…
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Danny Harvey is the Country Director for Concern Worldwide in Zambia and has been overseeing the Realigning Agriculture to Improve Nutrition (RAIN) project since 2013. She is a development professional with over 17 years of experience developing, implementing, managing, supporting and evaluating development programmes for International NGOs. With a background in Agriculture (MSc in Tropical…
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Theresa Agyeiwaa Ampadu-Boakye, a Ghanaian national based in Nairobi, is a Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Expert and has for the past ten (10) years been working with agricultural projects in the areas of Monitoring, learning & Evaluation and organizational development. Currently, Ms. Ampadu-Boakye is the Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist for the N2Africa project, where she…
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Hugh Bagnall-Oakeley is a senior hunger policy adviser with Save the Children (UK), and has over 30 years’ experience in Rural Development and Agribusiness, much of that was as a team leader managing, evaluating and designing projects for a range of different donors and other clients. His multi-disciplinary experience includes farmer institutional development, agricultural extension in both…
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