Nora Libertun de Duren is a Senior Specialist in the Urban Development and Housing Sector at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), where she leads the research and knowledge agenda. Recently, she has led the Sector Framework Document that establishes the IDB's priorities for its analytical work and its loans in Housing and Urban Development. Nora holds a PhD in Urban Planning from MIT, a...
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Sumila Gulyani is currently the World Bank’s Program Leader for Infrastructure and Sustainable Development in India. In this role, she coordinates the Bank’s work in seven practice areas—water, energy, transport, environment, agriculture, urban and social development—that together have an investment portfolio of about $23 billion in 80 projects. Prior to that she was Global Lead for Urban...
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Ingrid Gould Ellen is the Paulette Goddard Professor of Urban Policy and Planning at NYU’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and Faculty Director of the NYU Furman Center. Her research centers on neighborhoods, housing, and residential segregation. Ingrid is author of Sharing America’s Neighborhoods: The Prospects for Stable Racial Integration (Harvard University Press, 2000) and...
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Leah Boustan is a Professor of Economics at Princeton University, where she is also a faculty associate of the Industrial Relations Section. Her research lies at the intersection between economic history, labor economics and urban economics. Her book, Competition in the Promised Land: Black Migrants in Northern Cities and Labor Markets (Princeton University Press, 2016) was the recipient of the...
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Edlam Abera Yemeru is currently the Chief of the Urbanization and Development Section at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA). In this capacity, she leads the delivery of technical assistance to African member States in support of policies and strategies to leverage the potential of urbanization for economic diversification and inclusive growth. This involves strengthening...
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Tony Venables is Professor of Economics at Oxford University where he directs a programme of research on urbanisation in developing countries and the Oxford Centre for the Analysis of Resource Rich Economies. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, the Regional Science Association and the British Academy, a member of the steering group of the International Growth Centre and chair of the...
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Diane E. Davis is the Charles Dyer Norton Professor of Regional Development and Urbanism and Chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Design at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. Before to moving to the GSD in 2011, Davis served as the head of the International Development Group in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT, where she also had a term as Associate Dean of the...
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Current mayor of Santiago, Chile. A lawyer with a master in Corporate Law, Alessandri has a long trajectory in the public and private sectors. His first role in politics was in 2004, when he was elected Councilmember of Santiago, a position for which he was reelected in 2012. As mayor, his administration has focused on three main pillars: Clean, safe and organized Santiago; Santiago as a model...
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Eric Parrado Herrera is Chief Economist and General Manager of the Research Department of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) since March 2019. Before joining the IDB, he was a professor of economics and finance at the ESE Business School of the Universidad de los Andes in Santiago, Chile. Mr. Parrado is a visiting professor at Oxford University and the Central European University, and a...
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Roberto Azevêdo is the sixth Director-General of the WTO. He began his career in the Brazilian Foreign Service in 1984 and has served in Washington, Montevideo and Geneva. In 2001-2005, he was named head of the Brazilian Foreign Ministry’s Dispute Settlement Unit. From 2006 to 2008 he was Vice-Minister for Economic and Technological Affairs at the Foreign Ministry in Brasilia. In 2008 he was...
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