Julie Ryan works for the International Finance Corporation’s Risk and Public Affairs team. She previously worked for the Doing Business team, collecting and analyzing data for the Getting Credit – Credit Information indicator. Julie is the co-author of the annual Doing Business report’s chapter on the ease of doing business score calculations as well as several case studies. She has a master's…
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Freedom-Kai Phillips, BSc honors (E. Michigan), MA (Seton Hall), LLB (Dalhousie), LLM (Ottawa), PhD Candidate (Cambridge) is Director of the Deloitte Center for Sustainable Progress (DCSP). In addition, Mr. Phillips is a Legal Research Fellow with the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law, and a member of the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law. With over two decades of…
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Arame Tall is a Senior Adaptation & Resilience Specialist in the Climate Change Group of the World Bank. Dr. Tall leads coordination of the Bank’s work on Adaptation & Resilience and is the team leader for the World Bank Group’s first of its kind Action Plan on Climate Change Adaptation & Resilience. The new plan significantly boosts support for adaptation and resilience, and also…
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Joan M. Larrea is an expert in catalyzing investment in places that need it most and brings with her over 20 years of experience in emerging markets investing. Joan has led Convergence since its inception, establishing it as the leading independent authority on blended finance. She serves on the Global Environment Facility Advisory Group for Non-Grant Instruments and the Advisory Council for…
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Jeffrey J. Schott joined the Peterson Institute for International Economics in 1983 and is a senior fellow working on international trade policy and economic sanctions. During his tenure at the Institute, Schott was also a visiting lecturer at Princeton University (1994) and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University (1986–88). He was a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for…
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During three decades of service in the public and private sectors, Mr. Kuria has made significant contributions to Kenya’s economic development. In two terms as elected Member of Parliament for Gatundu South, he served on committees including Budget and Appropriations; Public Works and Housing; and as vice chair, Transport, Infrastructure, Public Works and Housing. He was also a member of the…
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Mr. Verghese is the Co-founder & Group CEO of Olam International Limited, a leading food and agri-business, headquartered in Singapore and ranking among the top 30 largest primary listed companies in terms of market capitalization on SGX-ST. In 2016, Fortune magazine recognized Olam at #23 in its ‘Change the World’ list. He is Chairman of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development…
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Current CFO of Banco de Comercio Exterior de Colombia S.A. (Bancóldex), Claudia González has a major in industrial engineering from Universidad de Los Andes, with vast experience in capital markets, finance, human resources, and financial planning. In the private sector she has worked as Group Treasury Vice President for Red Multibanca Colpatria, Treasury Manager for GranBanco-Bancafe, and…
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Santiago Levy is a nonresident senior fellow with the Global Economy and Development Program at Brookings. He was previously president of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association. From 2008 to 2018 he was the vice president for sectors and knowledge at the Inter-American Development Bank. From 1994 to 2000, he served as the deputy minister at the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit…
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Alaka Holla is a Senior Economist in the Human Development Chief Economist Office of the World Bank and program manager of the Bank’s Strategic Impact Evaluation Fund, a multi-donor trust fund that promotes the use of randomized controlled trials and quasi-experimental methods to inform policies in education, health, water and sanitation, and early childhood development in low- and middle-income…
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