Naina Lal Kidwai is Chairman Advent Private Equity India Advisory board; a non-executive director on the boards of LafargeHolcim, Max Financial Services, Larsen and Toubro and CIPLA; Trustee of Asia ...

Indermit Gill is Chief Economist of the World Bank Group and Senior Vice President for Development Economics. He brings to the role a broad combination of leadership, expertise, and practical ...

John B. Taylor is the Mary and Robert Raymond Professor of Economics at Stanford University and the George P. Shultz Senior Fellow in Economics at the Hoover Institution. He is Director of the ...

The International Monetary Fund–World Bank Group Annual Meetings bring together leaders from government, business, civil society, and international organizations to discuss the global economy and ...

Dr. Acha Leke is a senior partner at McKinsey & Company and Chairman of its Africa practice. He joined McKinsey in 1999, went on to establish the firm’s Nigeria office in 2010, and has been at the ...

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 ...

Ferid Belhaj took up the position of World Bank Vice President for Middle East and North Africa on July 1, 2018. Prior to this, Mr. Belhaj served 15 months as the Chief of Staff of the President of ...

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 ...

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 ...

He assumed the position of the Director General on September 8th, 2022 and the Executive Director of the Fund for Reconstruction and Development of the Republic of Uzbekistan (UFRD) on August 8th, ...

Christiana Figueres is a world authority on global climate change and was the Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC from 2010-2016. Ms. Figueres is currently Vice-Chair of the Global Covenant of Mayors ...