Gonzalo Hernández Licona is the Director of the Multidimensional Poverty Peer Network (MPPN-OPHI), where he coordinates 61 countries and 19 international institutions to advance and exchange ideas about implementing Multidimensional Poverty Indicators. He is also an expert for Country-Led evaluations working for UNICEF. He is Senior Research Fellow at the International Initiative for Impact…
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Odunayo Eweniyi is Co-founder and COO of PiggyVest. She previously cofounded pushcv.com, one of the largest job sites in Africa with the largest database of prescreened candidates. She has 5 years’ experience in Business Analysis and Operations and is a graduate (first class) of Computer Engineering, Covenant University, Nigeria. She was named one of Forbes Africa 30 under 30 Technology in 2019…
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Currently Vice Chairman, Inland Waterways Authority of India (IWAI) and Project Director, Jal Marg Vikas Project, Shri Pravir Pandey is a 1992 Batch Officer of the Indian Audit and Accounts Service (IA&AS)) and his parent organization is Comptroller and Audit General of India (CAG). Shri Pravir Pandey has taken upon himself to rewrite the history of navigation on river Ganga. Since March,…
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Arturo Herrera is the Minister for Finance, Mexico. Prior to this, he served as Deputy Minister of Finance and Public Credit and also acting as Undersecretary for Revenues. Earlier in his career he has held positions at the World Bank, the private banking sector, the Government of Mexico City, and Mexico’s Ministry of Finance and Public Credit. At the World Bank he participated and led several…
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Ville Skinnari is the Minister for Development Cooperation and Foreign Trade, Finland. Prior to this, he served in various capacities for the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Member of Parliament among others. Earlier in his career, he also worked in the field of international trade, including developing Nokia’s service business for the Asian and European markets and serving as the Business…
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Anxhela, 16, is passionate about making sure that children, and especially girls, can get an education and are empowered to speak up for their rights. At the age of 13, she joined a child-led group that advocates for children’s issues, which has allowed her to develop her communication, self-confidence, and teamwork skills. She is now recognized as a leader in this group and is known for…
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Hon Ken Ofori-Atta, assumed office as Ghana’s Finance Minister on January 27, 2017. He brings over 30 years’ experience in Ghanaian and international financial sector. He was a Co-Founder and former Chairman of the Databank Group (an investment banking firm) in Ghana. He was the Executive Chairman from 1990 until his retirement on February 14, 2012. Prior to co-founding Databank in 1990, the Hon…
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Orzala Nemat is an Afghan scholar and civil society activist. Dr Nemat holds PhD in Development studies from School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), MSc from University College London (UCL) and has been a Yale World Fellow class of 2008. As an expert in political ethnography, her research interest includes development and conflict, gender, governance and borderlands studies. Her PhD thesis…
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Gayle Tzemach Lemmon is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Ashley’s War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield (2015) and The Dressmaker of Khair Khana (2011), about a young entrepreneur who supported her community under the Taliban. Ashley’s War is currently being developed into a major motion picture. Gayle currently serves as Partner and…
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