Ros is a thought-leader in the field of technology, particularly the Internet of Things, and has pioneered new approaches to user-driven technology, innovation and development. Ros works across the public and private sectors to create large-scale sustainable change leveraging digital technology. She has a particular commitment to creating public good with private effort through innovative…
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Chris is the Founder of Caribou Digital, a new organisation dedicated to growing digital economies in an ethical and sustainable way in emerging markets. Caribou Digital works with public and private sector clients to help digital access, transactions and entrepreneurship develop to create 21st Century digital countries. Previously, Chris was the Managing Director of GSMA Mobile for Development.…
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Gernot Wagner serves as lead senior economist at the Environmental Defense Fund. He also teaches energy economics as adjunct associate professor at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs and is a research associate at Harvard Kennedy School. Mr. Wagner served on the editorial board of the Financial Times as a Peter Martin Fellow, where he covered economics, energy, and the…
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James Close brings over 25 years of experience in the field of energy policy, climate change, and private infrastructure investment and public-private partnerships. During his career in the professional services industry, he provided strategic and financial advice to a range of public and private sector clients at board and ministerial levels. Mr. Close has advised the UK government on the…
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Barry Eichengreen is the George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee Professor of Economics and Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught since 1987. He is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (Cambridge, Massachusetts) and Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (London, England). In 1997-98 he was Senior…
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James Robinson is the Wilbur A. Cowett Professor of Government at Harvard University where he has taught in the departments of Government, Economics and History since 2004. He started to study political science as an undergraduate at the London School of Economics but was convinced by Michio Morishima, the distinguished Japanese mathematical Marxist economist, to change into economics. He…
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Tina Nabatchi is an Associate Professor of Public Administration and International Affairs at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University. Her research focuses on citizen participation, collaborative governance, conflict resolution, and challenges in public administration. Her research has been published in numerous journals, as well is in several edited books,…
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Dr. Dhananjayan (Danny) Sriskandarajah has been Secretary General and CEO of CIVICUS - World Alliance for Citizen Participation since January 2013. His previous posts include Director of the Royal Commonwealth Society, where he was the first non-British and youngest person to head this 140-year-old organization, Interim Director of the Commonwealth Foundation, and Deputy Director of the Institute…
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Jeff Thindwa, a Malawi national, is Practice Manager in the World Bank’s Governance Global Practice, where he leads the work on Open and Collaborative Governance. Prior to this he was the Manager of the Social Accountability Practice in the World Bank Institute, which he led from December 2010 to June 2014. Mr. Thindwa joined the World Bank in 2000 and has served in various positions including as…
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Mr. Ahluwalia is currently a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Stern School of Management, NYU. He served as the Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission of the Government of India from 2004 to 2014. A key figure in India’s economic reforms from the early 1980s onwards, he has held several important positions including Special Secretary to the Indian Prime Minister (1988–90); Commerce…
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