Nicholas Padgalskas is the Chief Financial Officer of Summit Power International, which is the largest Independent Power Producer in Bangladesh. Prior to joining Summit, he was an Executive Director in ABN AMRO’s Asia-Pacific Energy team in Singapore and previously worked at Citigroup’s Energy Investment Banking division. Nicholas has an MBA from the Sloan School of Management, a Master of…
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Dr. Joan Osa Oviawe is the Executive Chairperson of the Edo State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), spearheading widespread reforms in the basic education sub-sector under the framework of Edo BEST (Edo Basic Education Sector Transformation). Dr. Oviawe is a gender and education specialist whose work experience in education, development and gender spans four continents. She is the…
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Tahir Andrabi is the Stedman-Sumner Professor of Economics at Pomona College. He has been a visiting scholar at MIT, a research associate at STICERD LSE and a consultant for the World Bank. He was a member of the tax and macroeconomic committees of the economic advisory board of the government of Pakistan in 1999-2000. He is a co-founder and Director, Social Policy and Public Goods Program of the…
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Zubedah Robinson is the Digital Engagement Specialist at the World Bank Group. She supports the World Bank Group clients by ensuring that global development messages are amplified on the World Bank Group Corporate English social media channels. Before joining the World Bank Group, Zubedah worked with Sunlight Foundation, a non profit promoting government transparency through the use of technology…
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Mahua Acharya is the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of state-owned energy transition company, Convergence Energy Services Limited of the Government of India. Mahua has two decades of experience in green finance, renewable energy, and carbon markets having worked in multiple countries. For the last few years, Mahua was the Assistant Director-General of 29-country intergovernmental…
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Kul Man Ghising is the current managing director of Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA). He is known for solving the problem of severe power cuts (load-shedding) in Nepal, managing domestic demands, and promoting greater regional cooperation. Prior to this position, he served as the project chief of Rahughat Hydroelectricity Project and the managing director of the Chilime Hydropower Company. He…
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Dasho Chhewang Rinzin is the Managing Director of the Druk Green Power Corporation Limited, the public sector generation utility of Bhutan established in 2008.The Corporation is responsible for operating the country’s export-oriented hydropower projects. Before that, he headed Bhutan Power Corporation Limited, the public sector transmission and distribution utility of Bhutan. For his services, he…
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Prof Sally Grantham-McGregor has run many projects in low and middle income countries (LMIC) involving child nutrition and development and supervised many PhD/MSc students from LMICs. Prof Grantham-McGregor established a research group at the University of the West Indies which investigated the effects of malnutrition and deprivation on child development. The group designed low cost, feasible…
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