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The World Bank Group Youth Summit's 12th edition, brings together young people (ages 18-35) to tackle urgent global challenges. This year’s focus is on digital transformation, creative industries, and ...
Simone Tebet is the Minister of Planning and Budgeting of Brazil. She was a Senator for the state of Mato Grosso do Sul between 2015 and 2022. In the Federal Senate, she led the first women's caucus ...
Ibrahima Guimba-Saïdou is the current Director General of the National Agency for the information society (Ansi). He is also the former Minister - Special Advisor of the President of the Republic and ...
As the world faced a host of intertwined challenges – from climate change, pandemics, fragility, geo-political tensions, to debt distress – the World Bank Group changed to become a better and bigger ...
Bidya Pradhan is the Senior Atmospheric Environment Specialist at the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD). She joined the organization in 1999, and has worked extensively ...
Hope Ndhlovu, born and raised in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, is a Co-Founder and CEO of Tuverl. Tuverl is an app that seeks to make Public Transport, cheaper, reliable and more accessible to millions of ...
Nangamso is currently the CEO of Funda Wande and an experienced education leader. Before being appointed as CEO, her previous portfolios included being Funda Wande’s Versioning and Relationships lead ...
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 ...
Dr. Omar Razzaz is the former Prime Minister of Jordan (2018-2020) and is currently a Senior Fellow at the Middle East Initiative (MEI) at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and a Board Member ...
Solmssen was Siemens’ general counsel and assumed responsibility for the company’s businesses in North and South America and was best known for having negotiated simultaneous settlements of the ...
Luong The Huy began volunteering in LGBTI advocacy work in 2008. In 2011, Huy officially joined the LGBTI rights movement and worked on the community's advocacy and capacity building work, dealing ...
Peter Sands was appointed Group Chief Executive in November 2006. He joined the Board of Standard Chartered PLC as Group Finance Director in May 2002, responsible for Finance, Strategy, Risk and ...