Ms. Tami Dokken is the first Chief Data Privacy Officer at the World Bank, the world’s largest international development bank with 189 member countries and twin goals of ending extreme poverty and promoting shared prosperity. Ms. Dokken joined the World Bank in 2019 to develop and implement a first-of-its-kind privacy program to meet the requirements of the World Bank Group’s Policy on Personal…
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Professor Abhijit Banerjee was educated at the University of Calcutta, Jawaharlal Nehru University and Harvard University, where he received his Ph.D in 1988. He is currently the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2003 he founded the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), along with Esther Duflo and Sendhil Mullainathan…
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Sylvia Schmelkes is a Mexican sociologist and education researcher who currently is serving as the director of the Mexican National Institute of Educational Evaluation (INEE). She studied sociology at the Ibero-American University in Mexico City and obtained a Master's degree in Education Research by the same institution. She is best known for her work in intercultural education and her book…
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Chief Economist, Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office (FCDO) Expert on assessing cost-effectiveness of alternative interventions to reduce poverty, including in education. Researcher and policy advisor
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Nazneen Ahmed, is a senior research fellow at the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies . She has more than 20 years of experience as an economist working on international trade and development, gender and socioeconomic issues, agriculture, and the apparel industry. Ahmed was a member of the panel of economists for Bangladesh’s 7 th Five-Year Plan and is a member of the government’s Bangladesh NGO…
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Markus Goldstein is a development economist with experience working in Sub-Saharan Africa, East Asia, and South Asia. He is currently a Lead Economist in the Office of the Chief Economist for Africa at the World Bank, where he leads the Gender Innovation Lab. His current research centers on issues of gender and economic activity, focusing on agriculture and small scale enterprises. He is…
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Charlotte Watts is Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Department for International Development (DFID). In this role she is Director of the Research and Evidence Division and Head of the Science and Engineering Profession for DFID. Professor Watts is seconded to DFID from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), where she is Professor of Social and Mathematical Epidemiology. …
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Paula Gaviria Betancur was appointed as a member of the United Nations Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on Internal Displacement in December 2019. A lawyer and specialist in journalism with postgraduate training in public opinion and political marketing, Ms. Gaviria is a former Presidential Advisor on Human Rights in her home country Colombia and is presently the Director of the peace-…
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David Miliband is the President and CEO of the International Rescue Committee. He oversees the agency’s relief and development operations in over 30 countries, its refugee resettlement and assistance programs throughout the United States and the IRC’s advocacy efforts in Washington and other capitals on behalf of the world’s most vulnerable people. David has had a distinguished political career…
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Franck Bousquet, is the Senior Director of the World Bank’s Fragility, Conflict, & Violence (FCV) Group since July 1, 2017 and in this position he led, the development of the World Bank Group’s first Strategy for Fragility, Conflict and Violence . As Senior Director, Bousquet is mobilizing expertise and supporting operational teams across the World Bank to deliver on the ground in close collaboration with humanitarian-development-peace partners. Bousquet brings several years of leadership experience on resilience and reconstruction issues.…, Articles:, France 24 - World Bank to attack poverty in conflict zones (Feb. 27, 2020) AFP - World Bank launches action plan for countries weakened by conflict [ Banco Mundial lança plano de ação para países fragilizados por conflitos ] (Feb. 27, 2020) Le Figaro - Focus on conflict zones for the World Bank [ Priorité aux zones de conflits pour la Banque mondiale ] (Feb. 27, 2020) Frankfurter Allgemeine -…
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