Mehdi Tazi-Riffi is the CEO of TANGER MED, in charge of the development of the Port Complex and adjacent Logistics and Industrial platform. Mehdi started his career in 1998 as Marketing Manager for NOKIA Networks in Germany before joining in 2001 the Swiss-based KUDELSKI GROUP as Head of Business Development, based in Lausanne, then as General Manager MENA based in Dubai until mid 2010. Mehdi…
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Dr. Abdalla Hamdok was born in 1956. Prior to becoming Sudan’s 15th Prime Minister, Dr. Hamdok had a long career in public service, international organizations as well as the private sector. From 1981 to 1987, he served as a senior official in the Sudanese Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning. In the 1990s, Hamdok held senior positions first at Deloitte & Touche, the International Labor…
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Tristan Reed is Economist in the Research Group of the World Bank. He seeks to answer policy-relevant questions in industrial organization and trade and has used diverse methodologies including structural general equilibrium models and randomized controlled trials to illuminate how markets work in developing countries, and to understand how to improve their contribution to welfare, especially of…
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Fulbert Tchana Tchana, , is a World Bank Senior Economist. Since joining the Bank in 2013, he has worked on analytical, advisory, capacity building, and lending operations in the Middle East and Africa, supporting clients in the areas of economic modeling, growth and productivity analytics, economic and trade diversification, oil revenue management, subsidies reform and regional integration. Prior to joining the Bank, he…
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As Director of the Office of the UNSGSA, Pia leads the team that supports Her Majesty Queen Máxima of the Netherlands’s work as the UN Secretary-General’s Special Advocate for Inclusive Finance for Development (UNSGSA). She joined the Office after spending 18 years at Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP). Most recently, she worked as the Managing Director of the Center for Learning and Inclusion…
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James Sampi, a Peruvian national, joined the World Bank’s Macroeconomics, Trade and Investment Global Practice in the Latin America and Caribbean region in 2016. He has worked on lending and analytical activities at the regional and country levels in Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, Mexico, and the Dominican Republic. His work is focused on growth and macro-structural policies. Prior to joining the…
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Dana Vorisek is a senior economist in the Prospects Group of the Equitable Growth, Finance and Institutions Global Practice. She is one of the lead authors of the corporate flagship Global Economic Prospects, which presents the World Bank’s views on the global economy. Her research and policy work is on a range of topics, including productivity, investment, inflation, and oil price shocks. She…
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Felix Mlusu is the Minister of Finance of the Republic of Malawi, having been appointed to the position in June 2020. Previously, he spent 41 years at NICO Holdings Limited. He first joined National Insurance Company Limited as a Management Trainee in 1975 and rose through the ranks to become its first Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer in 1994. He went on to become the Managing…
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United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres appointed Elliott Harris of Trinidad and Tobago as Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development in the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) and Chief Economist, effective 2 April 2018. Mr. Harris brings over 25 years of international experience in the fields of international economics and development policy analysis,…
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Dr. Husna Ahmad OBE is the CEO of Global One 2015, a faith-based international NGO focused on women. She is the former Group CEO of Faith Regen Foundation, a multi-faith UK charity. Dr. Ahmad is a board member of Faith for the Climate, Faith in Water, and Palmers Green Mosque. She is also a member of the Women’s Faith Forum UK and executive committee member of Barnet Faith Forum. She is a co-…
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