Mamta started as Vice President for Human Development at the World Bank on July 1, 2020. In this role she oversees the Global Practices for Education ; Health, Nutrition, and Population ; Gender ; Social Protection and Jobs – as well as the Human Capital Project . Mamta has held many leadership positions at the World Bank, including as Director of Operations Policy (2019), Director of…
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Johan Swinnen is director general of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and managing director of Systems Transformation at CGIAR. He is a member of the Advisory Committee On Voluntary Foreign Aid (ACVFA), USAID; Commissioner in the Food Systems Economics Commission; Co-Chair of the Think20 (T20) Task Force on Climate Change, Sustainable Energy, & Environment; and a…
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Vera Esperança dos Santos Daves de Sousa, was born in Luanda, and has a degree in Economics from the Catholic University of Angola (UCAN). She has been Minister of Finance since 2019 and was reappointed following August, 2022 elections. She is the first woman to rise to the post of Minister of Finance in Angola. Prior to her appointment, she was Secretary of State for Finance and Treasury.…
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Dr. Uzziel Ndagijimana is the Minister of Finance and Economic Planning in Rwanda’s Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning (MINECOFIN) and has been since April 2018. He served as Minister of State in Charge of Economic Planning (MINECOFIN) from July 2014 up to April 2018 before his appointment as full Minister of Finance and Economic Planning. Before joining the MINECOFIN, Dr. Ndagijimana was…
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Omar Arias is Manager of Global Engagement and Knowledge in the Education Global Practice. Previously, he was the Practice Lead Economist of the Social Protection and Labor Global Practice and Global Lead for skills at the World Bank. He was also the acting Sector Manager and Lead Economist in the Human Development Economics Unit for the World Bank Europe and Central Asia region; the sector…
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Hon Tweah became the Minister of Finance and Development Planning (MFDP) in 2017. Prior to becoming Minister, Mr. Tweah served as Senior Advisor to the Executive Director representing The Gambia, Ghana, Liberia Sierra Leone and Sudan at the African Development Bank (AfDB). Before joining the AfDB in 2016, he worked as Chief Economist (2013-2016) of the National Millennium Compact Development…
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Emmanuel Nyirinkindi is IFC’s Vice President of Cross-Cutting Solutions. He is responsible for overseeing cross-cutting services globally, including public-private partnerships (PPPs) and corporate finance, global Upstream projects and programs to proactively create new investible opportunities and markets, sustainability and gender solutions, and climate. His leadership ensures that climate,…
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Raj Kumar is a Washington, D.C.-based social impact leader, journalist, and author specialized in global development. He is the President & Editor-in-Chief of Devex, the independent news organization, and the author of The Business of Changing the World, an influential book about the future of global aid and philanthropy.
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Alberto Rodriguez is the Director for Strategy and Operations in Human Development, overseeing strategic and operational aspects of the World Bank’s global portfolio and activities in Health, Education, Gender, Social Protection and Jobs. A Colombian national, Mr. Rodriguez has more than 25 years of experience in international development, with a strong emphasis on human capital and education…
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Imad N. Fakhoury joined the World Bank as Director of the Infrastructure Finance, PPPs & Guarantees Group in November of 2019. Fakhoury comes most recently from the IFC, where he held the position of Senior Adviser for Private Sector Solutions. There, he worked to strengthen efforts to mobilize finance for development through leveraging private-sector solutions, creating markets, and reducing…
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