Kelly Clements is the Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees, UNHCR. Prior to this, she served as United States Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau for Population, Refugees, and Migration since March 2010. She previously was the Director of Policy and Resource Planning in the Bureau and also served as Acting Deputy Chief of Mission in the United States Embassy in Beirut. Ms.…
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Mr. Rüdiger König is the Director General for Crisis Prevention, Stabilisation, Peacebuilding and Humanitarian Assistance at the German Foreign Office in Berlin. He is leading this new Directorate-General since its creation within the Foreign Office in March 2015. The creation of this Directorate-General is one of the results of a broad public consultation and review process to strengthen the…
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Oscar Fernandez-Taranco assumed his position as Assistant Secretary-General for Peacebuilding Support on 1 November 2014. Prior to this he has worked for 5 years as Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs. He was responsible for overseeing the Department’s divisions dealing with the Americas, Asia and Pacific, Europe, Middle East and West Asia, and the Decolonization Unit and Division…
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Aïchatou Boulama Kané, Niger’s Minister of Planning since April 2016, is well-known to her fellow citizens as an advocate for the emancipation of women and the promotion of democracy. She is responsible for the design, development, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of the national planning and foresight policy. It was under her leadership that the 2017-2021 Economic and Social…
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Since September 2017, Jean-Marc Châtaigner is the new Ambassador and French Special Envoy for Sahel. Previously, he was the Deputy-Executive Director of Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD). Before moving to this position in March 2015, Mr. Châtaigner was the Deputy Director General for Global Affairs, Development and Partnerships at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Previously…
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Nandan Nilekani is and Indian entrepreneur and the co-founder and non-executive Chairman of the Board of Infosys, an India-based, multinational provider of business consulting, technology, engineering, and outsourcing services. Between 2009 and 2014, Nilekani served as the Chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), which is mandated with issuing unique Aadhaar ID numbers to…
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Eric Jing is the CEO of Ant Financial Services Group, which operates the world's largest mobile and online payments platform, Alipay, as well as the world's largest money-market fund. Jing was appointed President of Ant Financial in 2015 and has served as board member of Alibaba Group since August 2016. After joining Alipay as a Chief Financial Officer in 2009, Jing became Ant Financial’s…
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Joe Gebbia is the co-founder and CPO of Airbnb, serving on the Board of Directors and Executive staff, while leading Samara, Airbnb’s in-house design and innovation studio. An entrepreneur from an early age, Airbnb’s groundbreaking service began in his San Francisco apartment and spread to 3 million+ listings in over 191 countries, creating a new economy for thousands of people around the world.…
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Luis Caputo has a degree in Economics from the University of Buenos Aires and is a professor of Economics and Finance for the graduate program of the Universidad Católica Argentina. He was Secretary of Finance of the Ministry of Finance and Treasury between December 2015 and December 2016. As Secretary of Finance, he played a leading role in negotiating agreements with creditors which were not a…
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