Femi Oke is an international journalist, writer and moderator. Since the 1980s, she has worked for BBC television and radio, Sky TV, all U.K. terrestrial television networks, CNN and U.S. public radio. Oke’s reporting has been recognized by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the African Communications Agency and InterAction. You can connect with her anytime via Twitter @…
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Antonio Caño is the Editor-in-Chief of the major global newspaper in Spanish, EL PAIS, which is the top news reference in the Spanish-speaking world. He is also a regular speaker on Latin America and foreign affairs in major US, Latin America and European television programs and conferences. Prior to this position, Antonio was Bureau Chief of EL PAIS in Washington DC for over 10 years and…
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Ashish Thakkar is a serial entrepreneur who founded his first business in 1996 at the age of 15 with a $5,000 loan. Since then, he has driven the growth of the company from a small IT business in Uganda to the globally recognized multi-sector investment group that exists today. Through its investments, Mara Group employs over 8,000 people across 19 African countries in sectors spanning technology…
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Blanca Treviño is currently President and CEO of Softtek. Under her leadership, Softtek has become the leading provider of information technology services in Latin America. Throughout her 30-year career, Blanca has gained international recognition as a promoter of the IT services industry in and from emerging countries. To help increase the participation of Latin America in the IT field, Blanca…
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Mariana Costa is the co-founder of Laboratoria, a tech social enterprise that empowers young women from low-income backgrounds giving them access to education and work in the digital sector. In 2015 Laboratoria is training 130 young women across Peru, Mexico and Chile as web developers, securing jobs for 60% of them and doubling their income. Over the next three years the goal is to train 1,000…
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Two-time Academy Award® winner Sean Penn has become an American film icon in a career spanning over three decades. Penn has been nominated five times for the Academy Award® as Best Actor for "Dead Man Walking," "Sweet and Lowdown," "I Am Sam" and won his first Oscar® in 2003 for his searing performance in Clint Eastwood's "Mystic River" and his second Oscar® as Best Actor in 2009 for Gus Van Sant…
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Allen is one of the Co-founders of LinkedIn and Vice President of Product Management. Currently he manages the Content and Communities division, covering LinkedIn's Groups, News, Influencer, Stream and Communication products. Before joining LinkedIn, Allen designed exploratory products and marketing programs at PayPal. And he was an early employee, Director of Product Design, at SocialNet.com, a…
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The Minister of Housing, Construction and Sanitation, Milton von Hesse, is an economist from the Universidad del Pacífico (Pacific University), and has a master degree in Economics from Georgetown University (ILADES Program / Georgetown). He has been Minister of Agriculture and Irrigation from July 2012 to February 2014. Prior to that he was Executive Director of ProInversion, and from 2009 to…
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Mrs Nial Kaba is the first woman to support the Department of Economy and Finance. She was appointed to this position by Decree No. 2012-1119 of 22 November 2012 appointing the members of the government. This appointment is the culmination of a long and rich academic and professional career. After a BA C degree obtained in 1981 at the Lycée Moderne of Abengourou, Mrs. Kaba, in 1985 earned a…
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En qualité de directeur général et de directeur financier du Groupe de la Banque mondiale, Bertrand Badré était responsable des stratégies relatives aux questions financières et à la gestion des risques pour l’ensemble du Groupe de la Banque mondiale et pour les institutions qui le composent. Il s’agit entre autres de la création de nouveaux produits et services financiers innovants, de la…
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