Rodger Voorhies is the Executive Director of the Global Growth & Opportunity Division and a member of the Executive Leadership Team at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation reporting to the CEO. Rodger overseas the Agricultural Development, Financial Services for the Poor, Gender, and Water, Sanitation and Hygiene programs within the foundation with approximately $700 million in annual…
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Bill Gates is co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Along with co-chair Melinda Gates, he shapes and approves grantmaking strategies, advocates for the foundation’s issues, and helps set the overall direction of the organization. Bill and Melinda Gates work together to expand opportunity to the world’s most disadvantaged people by collaborating with grantees and partners. They also…
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Her Majesty Queen Máxima of the Netherlands, has served as the UN Secretary-General’s Special Advocate for Inclusive Finance for Development (UNSGSA) since 2009, as a leading global voice in advancing universal access to affordable, effective, and safe financial services. She emphasizes that financial inclusion accelerates progress toward numerous development and economic goals including poverty…
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Carmen M. Reinhart, est la nouvelle vice-présidente et économiste en chef du Groupe de la Banque mondiale et, à compter du 15 juin 2020, date de sa prise de fonction, elle contribuera à guider les réflexions de l’institution en ce temps de crise sans précédent. Reinhart dirige par ailleurs le département de l’économie du développement à la Banque. Spécialisée dans la finance internationale et la macroéconomie, ses…
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Vice-présidente du Groupe de la Banque mondiale pour les Ressources humaines, Annette Dixon est chargée d’apporter des orientations stratégiques en matière de développement des talents et de superviser l’ensemble des politiques, programmes et services à l’intention des personnels du Groupe à travers le monde. Elle était auparavant vice-présidente de la Banque mondiale pour le Développement humain…
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Jacob Jusu Saffa is Minister of Finance of Sierra Leone as of April 12, 2018. He was a member of a Transition Team set up by President Bio to conduct a stock taking exercise of the state of affairs of Government Ministries, Department and Agencies. He was the Team Lead for the Finance and Economic Development Pillar under the Transition Team. Mr. Saffa started his career as a Development Planning…
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Banlieuz'art is a Guinean music group made up of two members, Konko Malela and King Salaman. They modernize the local traditional sound making it accessible to new listeners by infusing it with hip hop, reggae, dancehall, and RNB flavors. They have been influenced by classics such as the Bembeya Jazz, Bob Marley, Morgan Heritage, and Fugees, and their music aims to depict the daily realities in…
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Ulla Tørnæs has a degree in Business Administration in English and French from Copenhagen Business School. University-level studies in Chambéry, France, and at the Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen.
Minister for Development Cooperation since November 2016. Minister for Higher Education and Science from February to November 2016. Minister for Development Cooperation from 2005 to 2010.…
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Roula Khalaf is Deputy Editor of the Financial Times. She has worked for the FT since 1995, first as North Africa correspondent, then Middle East correspondent and most recently as Middle East editor. Before joining the FT, she was a staff writer for Forbes magazine in New York. Roula oversees the FT’s network of foreign correspondents and bureaus. She writes regularly on global politics and…
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