Academy Award winner Matt Damon is an actor, screenwriter, producer and humanitarian, who has garnered international acclaim for his work both on- and off-screen. Inspired during international travel with his family throughout Mexico and Guatemala as a youth, Damon has long been devoted to environmental and social issues including climate change science, early childhood education, fighting hunger…
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Afsaneh M. Beschloss is Founder and CEO of Rock Creek, a leading global investment and advisory firm. Previously, she was Managing Director and Partner at the Carlyle Group and Treasurer and Chief Investment Officer of the World Bank. Ms. Beschloss has a long history working on global public policy and financial policy advising governments, central banks, and regulatory agencies. Ms. Beschloss is…
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Emmanuelle Nasse – Bridier is AXA Group Chief Credit Officer. She was previously head of AXA France strategic asset allocation. Emmanuelle started her career in Credit Lyonnais Group whereherlast position was vice president of Securitization Division in charge of structuring RMBS and ABS transactions. She joined AXAgroup in 1999 to create and develop AXAIM ABS Department. She was head of AXAIM…
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Jack Lew was confirmed by the United States Senate on February 27, 2013, to serve as the 76th Secretary of the Treasury. Secretary Lew previously served as White House Chief of Staff. Prior to that role, Lew was the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), a position he also held in President Clinton's Cabinet from 1998 to 2001. Before returning to OMB in 2010, Lew first joined the…
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Paul Danahar is the BBC's Americas Bureau Chief based in Washington. Before that he was the BBC’s Middle East Bureau Chief and ran the organisation's news coverage of the Arab Spring for which he won two Emmy's and a Peabody. He is the author of the book ‘The New Middle East: the world after the Arab Spring’. In 2003 he was awarded the MBE by HM Queen Elizabeth for his work as the BBC's Baghdad…
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José Rosero is the Executive Director of the National Institute of Censuses and Statistics of Ecuador and former President of the Statistical Conference of the Americas. He is a trained economist and holds a master´s degree in economics of development and a Ph.D. in economics from Amsterdam University. He has served as Vice Minister of Social Development, as Technical Secretary of the Social…
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Thomas Konditi, President & CEO, Africa, GE Transportation Thomas Konditi leads GE Transportation's effort in Sub-Saharan Africa. Thomas most recently was Chief Financial Officer for GE Africa. His responsibilities included the oversight of Sub-Saharan Africa finance, capital markets, financial services, treasury and tax support for the $3.2 billion operation that spans across 25 countries.…
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