Born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri, Mr. Aldridge is currently enrolled at Forest Park Community College. He serves as director of an organization called Young Activists United St. Louis and sits as student co-chair on the non-profit Missouri Jobs with Justice. Mr. Aldridge is a member of the Ferguson Commission, created by the State of Missouri following the death of Michael Brown in August…
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In the war-torn region of Southern Sudan, Emmanuel Jal was born into the life of a child solider on an unknown date in the early 1980s. Through unbelievable struggles, Mr. Jal managed to survive and emerge as a recording artist, achieving worldwide acclaim for his unique style of hip hop with its message of peace and reconciliation born out of his personal experiences. Mr. Jal has released four…
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Amira Yahyaoui is a Tunisian human rights advocate and founder of Al Bawsala. For over a decade, Ms. Yahyaoui was an active member of the Tunisian anti-censorship and freedom of speech movement, which aimed to end the restrictive policies of then President Ben Ali. Following the revolution in early 2011, she founded the Tunisian organization Al Bawsala. Al Bawsala is a public policy and…
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Alexandra Bezeredi is a Lead Social Development Specialist in the Africa Region of the World Bank. Prior to her current assignment, she was the Regional Safeguards Advisor for Africa. She has also worked in the Operations Policy and Country Services, Environment, and Secretary’s departments of the Bank, focusing on environmental and social safeguards and institutional governance issues. She has…
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Mark Bristow has been the chief executive of Randgold Resources since he led its incorporation in 1995. A geologist with a PhD from the University of Natal in South Africa, his pioneering exploration work in West Africa provided the foundation on which the company was established. He has since overseen its growth into a major multinational gold mining and exploration business which is listed on…
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Dr. Yansane was appointed State Minister of Mining and Geology in January 2014. Previously he was the Minister of Economy and Finance as well as a Former Governor, Central Bank of Guinea, Conakry (1986-1996). Before his appointment as Minister of finance in 2010, Dr Yansane was a Development Consultant with a number of international and regional institutions, including the World Bank, the…
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Richard Morgan is an International Government Relations Advisor for Anglo American (2010). He began his career at the British Embassy in Tokyo as a Commercial officer (1986-1990). Later he held a position at the Communications/Media team at the FCO in London (1990-95), followed by working as First Secretary at the British High Commission, South Africa (1995-2000) and in the Middle East and North…
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Cyprian Chitundu has served since October 2011 as managing director of ZESCO Limited, a power utility company operating under the supervision of the Ministry of Mines, Energy and Water Development in Zambia, Central Africa. Cyprian has extensive experience in engineering and management. In Zambia, he has worked at Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines, Kariba North Bank Company Limited and ZESCO…
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Born in Curitiba, David received a strong education in Jewish values and traditions from his family and as a student at a faith-based school, where he participated in weekly group activities and camps. Exploring the possibility of living in Israel, after turning 18, he spent a year on a kibbutz with a group of forty young Brazilian Jews. There he began working in a kitchen. During this eye-…
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Deborah Amos covers the Middle East for NPR News. Her reports can be heard on NPR's award-winning Morning Edition, All Things Considered and Weekend Edition. In 2003, Amos returned to NPR after a decade in television news, including ABC's Nightline and World News Tonight and the PBS programs NOW with Bill Moyers and Frontline. A member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Amos is also the author…
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