Aleksandar Stojanov is a Swiss-Macedonian national who works at the World Bank Group as a Trade Analyst (JPO). Professionally, Aleksandar has gained extensive public sector experience in the Trade and Investment Promotion Agency of the Switzerland and as an Evaluation Officer with the United Nations in Niger and Somalia. Prior to that, he also worked as a consultant in the finance and corporate…
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In May 2020, Dr. Ali Allawi was appointed Minister of Finance of Iraq in the cabinet of Mustafa al-Kadhimi. In April 2005, he was appointed to be the Minister of Finance in the Transitional Government headed by Dr.Ibrahim al-Jaffari, a post he held until May 2006 when he returned to private life. During this tenure he was directly responsible for Iraq embarking on a major program of macroeconomic…
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Ahmed Hanaa joined IFC in August 2010 as a trade specialist. He currently serves as IFC Middle East & Pakistan Trade Lead responsible for the trade business development and portfolio management. He started his career with Citi Bank as a Trade Finance associate in 1999 and has thereon successfully risen through the ranks till heading Citibank Egypt’s trade finance product management focusing…
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Kholood Khair is managing partner of Insight Strategy Partners, a think and do tank in Khartoum that works on transitional policy priority areas. Kholood also hosts and co-produces Spotlight 249, Sudan's first English language political discussion and debate show aimed at young Sudanese. Kholood has contributed to several publications and has provided analyses for different research and policy…
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Pedro Magariño joined the Women, Business and the Law team in 2021 and conducts research and analysis within the Labor team. With a passion for women empowerment and private sector development, Pedro also collaborates with the WB Finance, Competitiveness and Innovation Global Practice. Originally from Spain, Pedro counts with several years of experience in regulatory bodies and international…
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Carolina Monsalve is a Lead Climate Change Specialist in the Climate Change Group in the World Bank. She has co-led the preparation of the new WBG Climate Change Action Plan, led greenhouse gas accounting as well as climate corporate reporting, and has led the development of climate change policy commitments under IDA19. She has extensive experience leading policy and analytical activities with a…
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Heidi is a Senior Private Sector Specialist with the Macroeconomics, Trade and Investment Global Practice of the World Bank Group. She co-manages the World Bank Group’s two flagship trade facilitation programs and provides technical support to a number of countries on border management processes. Heidi is a World Bank certified Gender Specialist and leads the institution’s efforts on trade…
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Chris Sacca is the founder of Lowercase Capital, one of history's most successful funds and known for its very early investments in companies like Twitter, Uber, Instagram, Twilio, Docker, Optimizely, Blue Bottle Coffee, and Stripe. These days, Sacca heads a science and investing team at Lowercarbon Capital, the world's most prolific fund pursuing wildly ambitious solutions to the climate crisis…
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Agricultural entrepreneur Armelle Sidje Tamo believes zero waste can be the new normal in Cameroon, where her shopping bags, cardboard and rolls of paper replace wood-based paper and plastic packaging. Despite historically being the world leader in plantain production, Cameroon has already seen a loss of 200,000 hectares of vegetation due to deforestation for plastic-accumulating landfills.…
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Marcelo Bortman is a Lead Health Specialist in the Health Nutrition and Population practice. He is Team Leader for several project in Latin America and the Caribbean, Europe, Central Asia, and China. Marcelo is a medical doctor and epidemiologist, that worked 20 years as family medicine doctor in the field and 18 years working internationally at the World Bank.
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