How can increasing women’s economic participation help create more and better jobs? Expanding women’s access to jobs, finance, and digital tools can increase labor force participation, support ...

David Moinina Sengeh is Sierra Leone’s first-ever chief innovation officer. He is also the Minister of Basic and Senior Secondary Education. Previously he was a research scientist at IBM Research ...

Wanjiru (Ciiru) Waweru Waithaka is a serial entrepreneur from Kenya. Ms. Waithaka graduated in Interior Architecture from the University of Glasgow. She successfully founded and ran an interior ...

Frank Mars is a member of the Board of Directors of Mars, Incorporated, and until most recently, the Global President of Mars Symbioscience. Pioneering some of the most innovative and breakthrough ...

David Goldwyn is president of Goldwyn Global Strategies, LLC (GGS), an international energy advisory consultancy. A thought leader in energy security and extractive industry transparency, he is ...

Strive Masiyiwa is the Founder and Executive Chairman of Econet, a pan-African technology company, and one of the pioneers of the mobile telecoms industry on the continent. Econet operates Africa’s ...

Mr. Nasser served 10 years of his career with the family owned Target Engineering Construction, executing on Oil & Gas related projects values in excess of one billion US Dollars. These projects ...

Ms. Penny Mordaunt was appointed Secretary of State for International Development on 9 November 2017. She was appointed Minister for Women and Equalities on 30 April 2018. She was Minister of State ...

Barbara Byrne is a Vice Chairman in the Investment Banking Division at Barclays, responsible for leading the firm’s global relationships with multinational corporate clients. She is a member of ...

Valdis Dombrovskis is the Vice-President of the European Commission responsible for the Euro and Social Dialogue, also in charge of Financial Stability, Financial Services and the Capital Markets ...

Keiko Honda is Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer of the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), the political risk insurance and credit enhancement arm of the World Bank ...

Lara de Mesa is Head of Responsible Banking at Santander since September 2018. From this position, and reporting to the Head of the Executive Chairman’s Office, she leads the team which aim is to make ...