Headlined by the Honorable Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Nobel Laureate and former President of Liberia, this hour-long panel discussion will feature women leaders from across the globe and across generations to reflect on the importance of accelerating gender equality and empowerment; explore the power of collective action to accelerate change; and discuss how the private sector, philanthropic, and community leaders can play the role of changemakers and, together, accelerate equality.
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Isabel Santagostino Recavarren is a Private Sector Development Specialist with the Women, Business and the Law project. She currently leads research on violence against women, and the indicators on domestic violence and sexual harassment, as well as engagement activities with various stakeholders, including CSOs, the private sector and governments. Before joining the World Bank Group, she worked…
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Ratna Sahay is Senior Advisor on Gender in the Office of the Managing Director at the International Monetary Fund (IMF). She is responsible for mainstreaming gender in the Fund's core activities-surveillance, programs, and capacity development. Until April 2021, she was a Deputy Director in the Monetary and Capital Markets Department, where she led several policy papers and projects in the areas…
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Dr. Fatou Diane has had a very successful career within the government for about fifteen years. She was Coordinator of the Promise at the Ministry of Microfinance and Social and Solidarity Economy after important functions at the Ministry of Economy, Finance and Planning as Director of Regulation and Supervision of Decentralized Financial Services (2017-2021), Technical Adviser to the Director…
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Jerry Ng is the Founder and Chairman of Bank Jago. Prior to this, he spent over ten years leading the transformation of Bank BTPN from a small pension bank to the 7th largest bank in Indonesia and a leader in mass market and digital banking in SE Asia. He has held roles at Citibank, Bank Central Asia, Bank Danamon, Astra Financial Services, and the Indonesian Bank Restructuring Agency, a…
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Monica Brand Engel – co founding Managing Partner of Quona Capital -- is a wife and mother of twins, as well as an investor and entrepreneur, who has launched funds and products aimed at broadening financial inclusion globally. Engel (neé Brand) spent her formative years in Silicon Valley, launching and building alternative financing companies targeted at near-bankable businesses. Longing to…
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Mrs. Sheila M’Mbijjewe MBS, ACCA (UK) has served as Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Kenya since 2015. She holds a BA degree in Accounts and Finance and is a Chartered Accountant, England and Wales. Mrs. M’Mbijjewe has had a long career in accounting and audit. She worked in senior positions in the banking sector and was the first woman to be appointed executive director of a publicly…
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Koba Gvenetadze has been serving as Chairman of the Board of the National Bank of Georgia, Governor since 2016. Prior to that, he worked as Senior Economist at the Middle East and Central Asia Department of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), in Washington D.C. during 2002-2014, including positions of the Resident Representative of the IMF in Azerbaijan and the Kyrgyz Republic (2008-2014). He…
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Ms. Madhabi Puri Buch took charge as Chairperson, Securities and Exchange Board of India in Mumbai on March 2, 2022. Ms. Buch has served as Whole Time Member, SEBI till October 04, 2021. She has handled Market Regulation Department, Market Intermediaries Regulation & Supervision Department, Integrated Surveillance Department, Investment Management Department, Department of Economic &…
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Norman Loayza is Director of the Global Indicators Group in the Development Economics Vice-Presidency of the World Bank. From 2015 to 2020, he led the Asia hub of the Development Research Group. He was director of the World Development Report 2014: Risk and Opportunity – Managing Risk for Development. He joined the World Bank in 1994 and served most of his career in the Development Research Group…
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