As co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates shapes and approves foundation strategies, advocates for the foundation’s issues, and sets the organization’s overall direction. He works with grantees and partners to further the foundation’s goal of improving equity in the United States and around the world. Bill co-founded Microsoft Corporation in 1975 with Paul Allen and led...
Tipo: Expert
Coura Sene is an executive leader with over 20 years of experience in the mobile money, telecom and insurance industries, spanning multiple geographies. She currently serves as Wave Mobile Money’s General Manager (GM) for the WAEMU region. Coura’s stewardship has led to Wave’s explosive growth in Senegal, Cote d’Ivoire and increasingly, rest of Francophone West Africa. As GM for the region, she...
Tipo: Expert
Sucharita is the co-founder and CEO of Kaleidofin, a fintech platform that provides intuitive and tailored financial solutions to underbanked customers. Prior to this, she co-founded the IFMR group and most recently was the group CEO of IFMR Holdings. She conceptualized and founded IFMR Capital, building capital markets access for financial inclusion and IFMR Investments, an alternatives fund...
Tipo: Expert
Ana Maria is currently the Head of the Payment System Department at the Central Bank of Colombia. She previously worked at the Unit of Financial Regulation of the Ministry of Finance, the Securities Self-Regulatory Organization and the Colombian Banking Association. She is a leading economist in Latin America, responsible for financial inclusion of 1 million vulnerable households in 2020 through...
Tipo: Expert
Xavier Gine es Economista Principal en el Grupo de Investigación del Banco Mundial. Desde que empezó a trabajar en el Banco Mundial en 2002, su investigación se ha centrado, entre otros temas, en el acceso a los servicios financieros y en la protección de los consumidores financieros. Se graduó con un M.A. y un Ph.D en Economía por la Universidad de Chicago.
Tipo: Expert
Noreyana Fernando is External Affairs Officer for development finance in the World Bank’s the ECR Multilateral and International Affairs team. She was previously with the World Bank Human Development communications team, where she supported communications for the Human Capital Project, HD Vice President and cross-cutting projects. She was the Partnerships Lead for the 2019 World Bank Youth Summit...
Tipo: Expert
Samantha Power asumió, el 3 de mayo de 2021, como decimonovena administradora de USAID. En su calidad de líder del principal organismo internacional de desarrollo del mundo y de sus más de 10 000 funcionarios, Power se enfoca en ayudar a Estados Unidos a responder a cuatro desafíos interrelacionados: la pandemia de COVID-19 y los avances en el desarrollo que ha puesto en peligro; el cambio...
Tipo: Expert
Priscila Cruz is currently the executive president and co-founder of Education For All (Todos Pela Educação) in Brazil, which was founded in 2006. Cruz is also the president of the board of the Instituto Articule and a member of various groups, including the board of the Department of Judicial Research for the Nacional Broad of Justice, the Itaú Foundation for Education and Culture, the Center...
Tipo: Expert
Professor of International Education and Development, The Open University Expert in education systems in Africa, including on political economy of reform, teacher training and complementary basic education.
Tipo: Expert
Trained as an economist in India, Dr. Rukmini Banerji completed her BA at St. Stephen’s College and attended the Delhi School of Economics. She was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University and earned her PhD at the University of Chicago. Dr. Banerji worked as a program officer at the Spencer Foundation in Chicago for several years before returning to India in 1996 to join Pratham as part of the...
Tipo: Expert