Ms. Garrido is the Minister of National Planning and Economic Policy of the Republic of Costa Rica as well as Coordinator of the Technical Secretarial of the National Commission of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). She studied political science and has a master’s degree in democratic governance and public politics from the University of Costa Rica. She worked for the United Nations…
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Mr. Benchaaboun was appointed by His Majesty King Mohammed VI, August 20th 2018, Minister of Economy and Finance; he was subsequently reappointed to the post and assigned an additional portfolio that of the Reform of the Administration. Early on his career, he was appointed Director of the Administration of Customs and Indirect Taxes, responsible for coordinating transversal projects on behalf of…
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Ms. Ortiz Mena is chief executive officer of IEnova. Prior to her appointment as CEO in September 2018, she was chief development officer, responsible for the company’s business development and commercial areas from 2016 to 2018. Ortiz joined IEnova in 2000. She has held the positions of manager, project director, director for government and regulatory affairs, vice president of external…
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Eric LeCompte is the Executive Director of Jubilee USA Network, a development coalition of more than 700 religious groups and U.S. organizations. In 2016, his Congressional testimony on Puerto Rico informed debt-crisis legislation that Congress passed. LeCompte has also advised a United Nations General Assembly process on global sovereign bankruptcy structures to alleviate poverty. He is a member…
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Ilan Goldfajn is Chairman of the Advisory Board at Credit Suisse, Brazil. He was chairman of Brazil’s central bank from 2016 to 2019. In 2018, he was selected Central Banker of the Year by The Banker magazine. Previously, he was chief economist of Itaú Unibanco, founding partner of Ciano Investimentos, and partner at Gávea Investimentos. He has also been a professor at Pontifical Catholic…
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Joyce Chang, is Managing Director and Chair of Global Research for J.P. Morgan, whose research capacities expand across equities, currency and commodities, fixed income, emerging markets, derivatives and structured finance. In 2019, she was ranked among American Banker’s “ Most Powerful Women Finance .” Her team has been named the top global research firm for 2017 and 2018 by Institutional Investor.
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Anna Gelpern is an Agnes N. Williams Research Professor at Georgetown Law and a nonresident senior fellow at the Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics. She has published research on government debt, contracts, and regulation of financial institutions and markets. She co-authored a law textbook on International Finance, and has contributed to international initiatives on…
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Sarah Colenbrander is the Director of the Climate and Sustainability Programme at the Overseas Development Institute (ODI). She is an environmental economist, specializing in cities, climate change and sustainable finance. Over the last decade, Sarah has supported policymakers across Asia, Africa and Latin America to develop climate-compatible development strategies. Before joining ODI, Ms. …
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Executive level strategist/advisor of Broadband Network Implementation and Services bridging municipal broadband deployment initiatives with wireless and wireline next generation Smart City technology. SME on the assessment of real property assets and its viability for neutral host options for third party broadband providers. Al is the former Deputy Commissioner of Telecommunications Planning…
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Dr. Wong is a United States Fulbright Senior Scholar at the Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing. Dr. Wong is working on helping institutionalize ecosystem service assessments in China to advance sustainable development. Her current research is on evaluating China’s governance reforms for constructing China’s Ecological Civilization. In particular…
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