Atul Gawande is a surgeon, writer, and public health researcher. He practices general and endocrine surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, and is Director of Ariadne Labs, a joint center for health systems innovation. He is Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard School of Public Health and Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School. And he is…
Type: Expert
Frank Sesno is an Emmy-award winning journalist, and host and creator of Planet Forward, a ground-breaking web-to-television show seen on PBS and Bloomberg TV. He is also chief executive of Face the Facts USA, a new nonpartisan, multi-platform content hub and civic engagement initiative dedicated to elevating the tone of national debate with provocative facts found at facethefactsusa.org. Sesno's…
Type: Expert
May Habib is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Qordoba, a language services and digital content company based in Dubai that works with over 650 linguists in 30 countries. She was formerly the Mergers & Acquisitions Director at Mubadala and an investment banker at Lehman Brothers and Barclays Capital, New York. Ms. Habib is a Harvard alumni and the recipient of the Young CEO of the…
Type: Expert
Peter Sands was appointed Group Chief Executive in November 2006. He joined the Board of Standard Chartered PLC as Group Finance Director in May 2002, responsible for Finance, Strategy, Risk and Technology and Operations. Prior to this, Peter was Director and Senior Partner at worldwide consultants McKinsey & Co. Before joining McKinsey, Peter worked for the United Kingdom’s Foreign and…
Type: Expert
Global Lead for nutrition, World Bank’s Health, Nutrition & Population Global Practice, World Bank – Co-Author of WBG Obesity Report Meera is managing key partnerships and firmly positioning nutrition within the World Bank’s new initiative on Human Capital. She steered the repositioning of the nutrition agenda that led to the new global Scaling-up Nutrition (SUN) movement and was a…
Type: Expert
Homi Kharas is the Interim Vice President and Director of the Global Economy and Development program. In that capacity, he studies policies and trends influencing developing countries, including aid to poor countries, the emergence of the middle class, and global governance and the G-20. He has served as the lead author and executive secretary of the secretariat supporting the High Level Panel,…
Type: Expert
François Bourguignon is a specialist in the economics of development, public policy, economic growth, income distribution and inequality. As the Bank’s former Senior Vice President for Development Economics and Chief Economist, he provided intellectual leadership and direction to the Bank’s overall development strategy and economic research agenda, at global, regional and country levels.
Type: Expert
David Hawkes heads the Special Litigation Unit at the World Bank Integrity Vice Presidency. Previously Mr. Hawkes served as a prosecutor who specialized in anti-corruption and white collar crime investigations in Berlin, Germany, and an official in the German Federal Ministry of Justice. Mr. Hawkes holds a doctorate in law (Dr.iur.) from Freiburg/Germany.
Type: Expert
Professor Sir Robert T. Watson FRS is a former Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Biodiversity Ecosystem Services (IPBES). Prof. Watson is one of the most influential environmental scientists worldwide, contributing to multiple scientific assessments to inform international and national policies and actions. Among key positions held during his career, Watson was Chief Scientist at the UK…
Type: Expert
Will Martin, is a senior research fellow with the International Food Policy Research Institute , where his main interests are agricultural trade policy, poverty reduction, and the environmental impacts of agricultural support. Before joining IFPRI in 2015, Martin spent nearly 25 years at the World Bank, where he headed a research team on agriculture and rural development for six years. His analysis of the…
Type: Expert
