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Lerato Mbele
Lerato Mbele is an international broadcaster, TV personality, and media consultant with a passion for Africa and its development.   She is the co-owner of “Moon Landing Media” (pty) Ltd and proprietor of the African Leadership Dialogues series. She also hosts a daily talk show and podcast titled “PowerTalk with Lerato Mbele” at Power987 in her native South Africa.   Prior to this Lerato spent…
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Ousmane Diagana
Ousmane Diagana, a Mauritanian national, is the Regional Vice President for Western and Central Africa as of July 1, 2020. In this position, Mr. Diagana leads relations with 22 countries, and oversees a portfolio of projects, technical assistance and financial resources worth more than $38 billion. Prior to this appointment, Mr. Diagana was the Vice President of the World Bank Group Human…
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Andrew Dabalen
Andrew Dabalen is the World Bank’s Africa Region Chief Economist since July 1, 2022. The Chief Economist is responsible for providing guidance on strategic priorities and the technical quality of economic analysis in the region, as well as for developing major regional economic studies, among other roles. He has held various positions including Senior Economist in the World Bank’s Europe and…
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Alamine Ousmane Mey
Alamine Ousmane Mey was appointed Minister of Economy, Planning & Regional Development as part of last February cabinet reshuffle. Prior to that, he served as Minister of Finance, a role he was assigned in 2011 despite his lack of government experience then. Mey was recognized as Finance Minister of the Year at the African Banker Awards 2016. In 1993, Mey obtained a job with the CCEI Bank,…
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Mercy Niwe
Mercy Niwe currently serves as the World Bank Group’s Lead for Stakeholder Engagement including Civil Society, Parliamentarian and Faith-based engagements. In this role, she leads the institution’s engagement with key stakeholders and is focused on fostering strategic collaboration and partnerships based on shared values and priorities. Mercy has diverse experience in international development…
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Halsey Rogers
Halsey Rogers is Lead Economist with the World Bank’s Education Global Practice and served as Co-Director of the  World Development Report 2018: Learning to Realize Education’s Promise . He now helps lead initiatives that advance the WDR vision, including the global Learning Poverty estimates and the Global Education Policy Dashboard.  In the past, he represented the Bank in SDG negotiations on…
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Catherine Russell
Catherine Russell serves as UNICEF’s 8th Executive Director, overseeing the organization’s work for children in over 190 countries and territories. Ms. Russell brings to the role decades of experience in public service, with a focus on empowering underserved communities around the world and developing high-impact policies and programmes to support women and girls, including in humanitarian crises…
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Paul Blake
Paul Blake is an External Affairs Officer at the World Bank, where he helps design, produce, host, film, and edit several digital podcasts, video series, data visualizations, and other multimedia products. Previously, he worked as a journalist for several outlets, including BBC News and ABC News (US), which allowed him to travel and report across North America, in Latin America and the Caribbean…
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Lawrence H. Summers
Former Treasury Secretary,  , Lawrence H. Summers is one of America’s leading economists. In addition to serving as  71st Treasury Secretary 71st Secretary of  the Treasury  in the Clinton Administration, Dr. Summers served as  White House National Economic Council Director of the White House National Economic Council  in the Obama Administration, as  President of Harvard University President of Harvard University , and as…
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Jeanine Cooper
Jeanine Cooper was commissioned as Liberia’s Minister of Agriculture in February, 2020. Since then, Minister Cooper has re-oriented the Ministry of Agriculture to focus on agri-business, partnerships, and coordination. She has formulated -and is implementing- a food systems approach with heavy focus on expanding food production, boosting agro-processing, supporting livelihoods, and improving…
Type: Expert

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