Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was elected as WHO Director-General for a five-year term by WHO Member States at the Seventieth World Health Assembly in May 2017. He is the first WHO Director-General to have been elected from multiple candidates by the World Health Assembly, and is the first person from the WHO African Region to serve as WHO's chief technical and administrative officer. Immediately…
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Professor Stern is the IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government, Chairman of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment and Head of the India Observatory at the London School of Economics. President of the British Academy, July 2013 – 2017, and was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 2014. Professor Stern has held academic appointments in the UK at Oxford,…
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Mr. Hakimi is the Minister of Finance since 2015 and is the Chairman of the Government High Economic Commission as well as the Co-chair of the Joint Coordination and Monitoring Board. He was the Coordinator of the Brussels International Conference on Afghanistan. Over the period Hakimi has been the Minister of Finance, the Ministry has witnessed significant achievements on a number of fronts.…
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H.E. Ambassador Josefa Leonel Correia Sacko, an Angolan national, is a leading African Agronomist. She is the Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture of the African Union Commission. Prior to her election, she was Special Adviser to two Ministers in Angola: the Angolan Minister of Environment where she also served as Ambassador responsible for Climate Change. As advisor to the Minister of…
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H.E Lina Annab is the Minister of Tourism and Antiquities of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. Prior to assuming her ministerial post in June 2016 Minister Annab was the general manager of Zara Investment Company (Holding). She was also a member of the board of directors of various private and public shareholding companies in Jordan. She represented the private sector on the "Employment –…
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Dr. Mamuka Bakhtadze is a Minister of Finance of Georgia since November 2017 and is a special representative at New Silk Road from Georgian Government. Prior to his appointment as a Minister from 2013 he worked as a CEO of JSC Georgian Railway. Before that he also held various high positions in the private sector such as being CEO of Georgian International Energy Corporation and Member of…
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Ato Newai Gebre-ab has been an economic adviser to the president of Ethiopia since 1991. During the 1960s and early 1970s Gebre-ab worked at the Development Bank of Ethiopia and the Planning Commission. He then worked as a consultant in the United Kingdom and served as a staff member or consultant for various United Nations organizations. He returned to Ethiopia in December 1991. Gebre-ab earned…
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H.E. Amadou Cissé was Vice-President of the Islamic Development Bank from 2002 to 2008. He was Senior Minister for Finance, Economic Reforms and Privatization in Niger from 1996 to1998. From 1983 to 1996 and 1999 to 2001 he worked for the World Bank Group. Mr. Cissé holds a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering and a Master’s in Economics.
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Luis Felipe López-Calva is the Global Director for the World Bank Group’s Poverty and Equity Global Practice (GP), , in the Equitable Growth, Finance, and Institutions (EFI) Vice Presidency. López-Calva has over 25 years of professional experience working with international institutions and advising national governments. He rejoined the World Bank in 2022 from the United Nations Development Programme, where he served as UN Assistant Secretary General and Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean…
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Victoria Kwakwa is the Regional Vice President for Eastern and Southern Africa. An economist and development expert with over 30 years of experience, Dr. Kwakwa leads the Bank’s engagement with 26 countries. She oversees an active portfolio of 313 operations totaling $58 billion and an extensive program of cutting-edge analytic work, technical assistance, and policy advice. At the core of Ms.…
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