Nigel is a product manager for Google’s Crisis Response team, which is changing how citizens stay informed during crises by providing information and tools to help people collaborate during emergencies and build resilient communities. Before joining Google in 2011, Nigel led R&D on humanitarian systems at Microsoft and spent several years at the United Nations helping lead pandemic…
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Ros is a thought-leader in the field of technology, particularly the Internet of Things, and has pioneered new approaches to user-driven technology, innovation and development. Ros works across the public and private sectors to create large-scale sustainable change leveraging digital technology. She has a particular commitment to creating public good with private effort through innovative…
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Jerome Socolovsky is the award-winning religion correspondent for the Voice of America, based in Washington. He reports on the rapidly changing faith landscape of the United States, including interfaith issues, secularization and non-affiliation trends and the growth of immigrant congregations. Jerome’s story on U.S. churches taking up the fight for work-family balance won first prize from the…
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H.H. Pujya Swami Chidanand Saraswatiji’s motto in life is, “In the Service of God and humanity.” Dedicated to the welfare of all, He leads, directs and inspires numerous, wide-scale service initiatives. At the age of eight, Pujya Swamiji left his home to live a life devoted to God and humanity, spending his youth in silence, meditation and austerities high in the Himalayas. At the age of…
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Dr.Vinya Ariyaratne is the General Secretary of the Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement, Sri Lanka’s largest non-governmental grass roots development organization. Following a unique model based on Buddhism, Sarvodaya Movement serves over 15,000 village communities across ethnic and religious divides through an integrated approach to development, peace and reconciliation in Sri Lanka. Dr. Ariyaratne is…
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Dr. Woo assumed the position of CEO and president of Catholic Relief Services in January 2012. Catholic Relief Services was founded in 1943 by the Catholic Bishops of the United States to serve World War II survivors in Europe. Since then, it has expanded in size to reach more than 100 million people in nearly 100 countries on five continents. Dr. Woo, representing CRS, was featured in Foreign…
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Dr Mohamed Ashmawey joined Islamic Relief Worldwide (IRW) as CEO in early 2012 and leads the Islamic Relief family in over 40 countries around the world. Whilst addressing ongoing crises he is transforming Islamic Relief into an impact-led and rights-based development INGO that helps people lift themselves out of poverty. His many years of corporate management expertise in process re-engineering…
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Ruth W. Messinger is president of American Jewish World Service (AJWS), the world’s leading Jewish organization working to end poverty and realize human rights in the developing world. Ruth came to AJWS in 1998 after a 20-year career in public service in New York City. A tireless advocate and social change visionary, Ruth is known for her leadership of the movement to end the genocide in Darfur,…
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Née à Paris en 1956, Christine Lagarde a effectué ses études secondaires au Havre et étudié à la Holton Arms School de Bethesda (Maryland, États-Unis). Elle est diplômée en droit de l’Université de Paris X et titulaire d’un master de l’Institut des sciences politiques d’Aix en Provence. Admise au barreau de Paris, Christine Lagarde rejoint le cabinet d’avocats international Baker & McKenzie…
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