Hiroko Samejima is founder, CEO and Chief Designer of andu amet Ltd.. andu amet is a leather brand whose products are made from exquisite Ethiopian sheepskin, known as the world’s best leather for its silky smoothness and stout quality. She has won a number of awards for her entrepreneurial endeavors including Women of the Year 2013 of the Nikkei Woman magazine and Young Women Innovator of APEC.…
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Ken Endo is an associate researcher of Sony Computer Science laboratories Inc., and CEO of Xiborg Co.,Ltd.. Endo received Ph.D at Biomechatronics group, MIT Media Lab in 2012. At the same time, He taught a course to develop orthopedic devices for developing countries as an instructor of MIT D-lab. He became an associate researcher at SonyCSL, and works on technology that rehabilitates and…
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Tomohiro Hamakawa serves as a Project Manager at Kopernik, managing consulting projects within the advisory service arm. Tomo has spent most of his career working for international development organizations across Asia, Africa and Europe, including the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation. He has a Bachelors in Social Anthropology from Harvard College and a Master in Public Policy from the…
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In the third grade of elementary school, he encountered the world of programming and all the creative options it offered. While learning new computing languages, such as BASIC, he devoted himself to software development. He joined a programming club at his school, the Fukui National College of Technology, and worked part time, discovering the pleasure of making things and performing services for…
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Inspired by the Grameen Bank’s work, Atsuyoshi established an e-education system among the poor in Bangladesh. At the age of 19, he became the first Japanese coordinator of the research laboratory of Grameen Bank. In 2010, he started up the e-Education Project and was inaugurated president. He won both Grand Prix and Watami Special Awards of Everyone’s Dream Award 2010. In 2011, he published “DO…
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Ms. Aiko Doden is NHK Senior Commentator on International Affairs, and Senior Producer for “NEWSROOM Tokyo” on NHK World TV. She has expertise in reporting on a wide range of global issues from hard security to human security. As commentator she covers SE Asia with a focus on Myanmar and Thailand, US Japan relations and Japan’s Foreign Policy. Ms Doden comments on developmental affairs with a…
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Sergio Jellinek oversees the Bank's communications for Latin America and the Caribbean. He is a founder of the COM+ Alliance, a partnership of international organizations and communications professionals. He has extensive experience in developing countries, both as a working journalist and as an adviser to international organizations.
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Jane E. Fountain is Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Public Policy and Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is the founder and director of the National Center for Digital Government, established in 2002 with support from the National Science Foundation. She has been Chair, Vice Chair and is a continuing member of the World Economic…
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Dr. Naoko Ishii is the CEO and Chairperson of the Global Environment Facility (GEF), an independently operating financial organization that provides grants for projects related to the global environment. Dr. Ishii was unanimously selected by the GEF Council in June 2012 and took office on August 1. Prior to becoming the fourth CEO and Chairperson of the GEF, Dr. Ishii, as Deputy Vice Minister of…
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Ede Jorge Ijjász Vásquez is the Senior Director for the new Social, Urban, Rural and Resilience Global Practice at the World Bank Group. He assumed this position on July 1, 2014, under a stronger institutional structure focused on ending extreme poverty by 2030 and boosting shared prosperity for the bottom 40 percent. As senior director, Mr. Ijjász will lead a team of over 600 technical experts…
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