Odile Renaud-Basso is the President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). The EBRD’s Board of Governors elected Ms Renaud-Basso as the Bank’s seventh President in October 2020 during its 29th Annual Meeting. She took up the role in November 2020, replacing Sir Suma Chakrabarti, who had stepped down in July 2020 after serving two full four-year terms. She is the first…
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Dr Werner Hoyer is the President of the European Investment Bank (EIB). He took up the post on 1 January 2012 for an initial term of six years and was re-appointed for a second term in office, with effect from 1 January 2018. From 1994 to 1998 and then again from 1999 until 31 December 2011, he was Minister of State for Europe and Deputy Foreign Minister of Germany. From 2000 until 2005 he served…
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Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Tran Hong Ha was born on April 19, 1963, in Kim Loc commune, Can Loc district, Ha Tinh province in central Vietnam. He has served in this position since April 2016. He is the member of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV)’s Central Committee for two terms (12th and 13th) since 2016. He also served as a National Assembly Deputy for the 14th term (2016-…
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Erion Veliaj was re-elected as Mayor of Tirana in June 2019, after being firstly elected as the 42nd Mayor of Tirana in June 2015. Prior to his tenure, Veliaj served as a Member of Parliament of Albania and Minister of Social Welfare and Youth from 2013 through 2015. Before joining the ranks of the Socialist Party of Albania in 2011, Veliaj had a long experience as the leader and founder of the…
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Sheela Patel is the founder and Director of the Society for Promotion of Area Resource Centres (SPARC), an NGO that has been working since 1984 to support community organizations of the urban poor in their efforts to access secure housing and basic amenities and seek their right to the city. She is widely recognized – nationally and internationally – for seeking urgent attention to the issues of…
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Merli Margaret Baroudi is a Director of Economics and Sustainability at the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), the political risk insurance and credit enhancement arm of the World Bank Group. Ms. Baroudi joined MIGA in November 2016 and is responsible for MIGA’s economics, country risk management, evaluations and environment and social development functions. Prior to joining MIGA,…
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Ms. Hoven is Managing Director of GIZ, a leading German development agency. She is a development economist with more than 30 years of international experience and has focused on sustainability and climate issues. From 2010 to 2014, she served as World Bank Group Executive Director representing Germany. She has previously held various high-level positions in the BMZ (German Federal Ministry for…
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Charles Abel is the Deputy Prime Minister and Treasurer of Papua New Guinea. He was first elected to the 8th National Parliament for the Alotau Open Electorate in the 2007 General Elections as an Independent candidate then joined the National Alliance Party. He was appointed as Minister for Culture and Tourism in the Somare-Temu cabinet on the from 2007 through 2010. He was appointed Minister for…
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Zainab Ahmed is Nigeria’s Minister of Finance, Budget, and National Planning—a portfolio that makes her one of the country’s most influential ministers. In that capacity, she has is seeking to boost government revenue, with plans underway to raise value-added tax while taming public debt that now estimated at more than $80 billion. She previously served as executive secretary and national…
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John Edwards began his term as UK Information Commissioner in January 2022., , John was educated in New Plymouth, New Zealand and achieved a Bachelor of Laws and Masters in Public Policy at the University of Wellington. He worked as a solicitor and barrister for more than 14 years, including time as a policy adviser to the New Zealand Prime Minister and Cabinet around Freedom of Information.] From February 2014 to December 2021 he was New Zealand Privacy Commissioner.…
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