Jin-Yong Cai is Executive Vice President and CEO of IFC, a member of the World Bank Group and the largest global development institution focused on private sector development and the fight against poverty. Cai, a Chinese national, joined IFC on October 1, 2012. He has extensive experience in private sector development in emerging markets across the globe. He also has deep expertise in a variety…
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Juan Alberto Fuentes is the chair of Oxfam International. Juan Alberto has a strong background in economics having studied at the University of Toronto and gaining a PhD from the University of Sussex. He has had a wide ranging career path and is a published author; as such he is a global voice in the economic sector. Juan Alberto was the founder and Director for the Central American Institute for…
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Sami MEKKI est tunisien, diplômé en sciences économiques et ancien élève de l'Ecole Nationale d'Administration (ENA) de Tunis et de l'Ecole Nationale des Impôts (ENI) de France. Il a travaillé pendant 20 ans au Ministère des Finances et a contribué aux réformes touchant les finances locales, il est parmi les rédacteurs du code de la fiscalité locale de la Tunisie. Au cours de sa carrière, Sami…
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Phyllis Kurlander Costanza is the CEO of the UBS Optimus Foundation. Prior to this, she was with the Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF) and also served as a CIFF board member for eight years. Before joining the non-profit sector, Ms Costanza worked for more than a decade as a management consultant in Washington, DC and Vienna, Austria and also lived and worked in Kiev, Ukraine on a…
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Michael Anderson joined CIFF as Chief Executive Officer in 2013. He was previously Prime Minister David Cameron’s Special Envoy for UN Development Goals, and Director General for Policy and Global Programmes at the UK Department for International Development.
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Chris is the Founder of Caribou Digital, a new organisation dedicated to growing digital economies in an ethical and sustainable way in emerging markets. Caribou Digital works with public and private sector clients to help digital access, transactions and entrepreneurship develop to create 21st Century digital countries. Previously, Chris was the Managing Director of GSMA Mobile for Development.…
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Tony Salvador, PhD, is a practicing social scientist with Intel Corporation and is currently with their Corporate Strategy Office. He founded the application of social science at Intel and has led various teams of anthropologists, psychologists, sociologists and economists who have worked around the world to understand the lived experience of people in all walks of life and work. His work in…
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Andrew Zolli works at the intersection of global innovation, foresight, social change and resilience. He is the author of Resilience: Why Things Bounce Back and also serves as an advisor to Andrew to Planet Labs, Data Kind and the Garrison Institute. From 2003-2014 he was the creative and curatorial force behind PopTech, a renowned innovation and social change network. He has been a Fellow of the…
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