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Pablo Bereciartua
Pablo Bereciartua is Argentina's Secretary of State for Infrastructure and Water and is Founder and CEO of Bereco SA & Bereco Labs, Inc., a company focused on innovation, technology, and management. He is also the founder of other technology based companies such as B3 and Agro Appgrade SA. In the public sector, he has served as the director of infrastructure for the city of Buenos Aires, where he faced both enormous challenges and opportunities to apply new technologies to city and regional infrastructure. Pablo is a professor at the University of Buenos Aires and former dean at the Buenos Aires Institute of Technology, where he focused on teaching and researching…
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Amine Belaicha
Amine Belaicha runs Numid-Invest, a private investment and advisory firm providing consulting services to foreign companies developing business opportunities in North Africa. The firm also supports local companies in planning their strategic development, finding investors, and raising debt. Amine previously served as Vice-President of Investments for Swicorp Private Equity in Tunis, where he gained transactional experience across the region in a variety of sectors, including consumer goods, insurance, and pharmaceuticals. Earlier, he worked as a strategy consultant for the Boston Consulting Group in Paris serving clients in continental Europe, the UK, and the MENA region. Since 2010, Amine has been a lecturer at HEC Paris Business School. Amine is also…
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Radha Kuppalli
As a business and investment leader, Radha Kuppalli has been developing innovative finance and commercial solutions to addressing climate change and restoring and protecting nature for over 20 years. Her career has spanned executive leadership in the asset management industry, investment in real assets and private equity, business development and growth execution, and board roles in the finance, manufacturing, and environmental sectors. She is currently building businesses aligned with the transition to a net zero and nature-positive future. For 17 years, Radha was an integral staff member and executive of New Forests—building the world’s leading asset manager in forestry and natural capital. She was a Board Director and held executive…
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Belva Devara
Belva Devara is CEO and Co-Founder of Ruangguru, the largest education technology enterprise in Southeast Asia, across Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, and Singapore. Ruangguru has impacted over 20 million K–12 students through high-quality learning videos, quizzes, and live tutoring on web and mobile platforms. Its affordable subscription cost allows for high student adoption across lower-income segments and in more rural regions. In addition, Ruangguru has served over 10 million lifelong learners through online professional courses and corporate training. With venture funding of over $205 million, Ruangguru is most recently included in the list of the 50 most innovative companies in the world by Fast Company, ranking #25 overall and #2 in…
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Nora Al-Jindi
Nora Al-Jindi is a passionate educator with over a decade of experience in the field of business academia. She is an advocate for the integration of technology in education to better prepare graduates when joining the workforce. She is currently the Marketing Program Chair at Dar Al-Hekma University in Saudi Arabia. In her efforts to bridge the gap between theory and practice, she interacts closely with the Business Community to promote the practical side of marketing, allowing students to apply studied theoretical concepts. Through her work as the X-Culture Regional Executive Director, she pioneered the way for Saudi universities to join the X-Culture platform and engage students in virtual global…
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Naasu Genevieve Fofanah
Naasu Genevieve Fofanah is an entrepreneur and author with extensive gender and global public policy experience. An award-winning women's and girls' rights activist, she has championed controversial issues globally. She launched Susue Women's Finance during the COVID-19 pandemic to influence government policy on women's business and access to finance. Susue Women's Finance and Sierra Leone Commercial Bank formed the Women's Bank Initiative to offer low-interest loans to female entrepreneurs. The Bank of Sierra Leone Financial Literacy Working Group elected Naasu Co-Chair in 2022. Naasu previously served as Sierra Leone's first Special Gender Adviser to ex-President Ernest Bai Koroma. She made gender equality and women's (GEWE) a priority in the National…
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Vivianne Naigeborin
Vivianne Naigeborin is a pioneer in social impact investing in Brazil and serves as Strategic Advisor for Potencia Ventures. Potencia is an international organization that invests in emerging global markets to support an enabling environment for businesses contributing to poverty reduction. Potencia was the first investor and principal strategic partner for a half-dozen key initiatives for businesses with social impact in Brazil, including Vox Capital, the first Brazilian impact investing venture capital firm, and Artemisia, a pioneer organization in the dissemination, promotion. and acceleration of impactful businesses in Brazil. Prior to Potencia, Vivianne worked as a strategic consultant for companies, funds, individuals and citizen sector organizations in the field of…
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Aboubakr JamaĂŻ
Aboubakr JamaĂŻ has been the Dean of the Institute for American Universities School of Business and International Relations since 2014. Aboubakr's professional career spans the business sectors of finance, economics, and journalism. As a professor, he teaches political science and international journalism at IAU and other American institutions of higher education. Among the many prizes and distinctions he has received, he was named Harvard University’s Nieman Fellow in 2007 and Mason Fellow in 2008. He was also awarded the 2008 Tully Center Free Speech Prize, Newhouse School of Communication, Syracuse University, and the International Press Freedom Award from the Committee to Protect Journalists. In 2016 he was honored by the…
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Katrin Eggenberger
Katrin Eggenberger was sworn in as the Principality of Liechtenstein's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Justice, and Culture on November 11, 2019 as one of the youngest female ministers worldwide, shortly ahead of one of the most pressing and demanding times for governments in history. Her Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Justice, and Culture brings together three fields in which Liechtenstein actively expresses its autonomy as a country. Policies in these areas contribute significantly to defining the way the country sees itself. In April 2020, Katrin published a joint op-ed with the foreign ministers of Ghana, Indonesia, Norway, Singapore, and Switzerland on the necessity to globally coordinate the response to COVID-19, culminating…
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Joel Steinhaus
Joel Steinhaus is an entrepreneur and non-profit leader. He is the former Head of Strategic Initiatives at WeWork and former Managing Director and Chief of Staff to the Chairman at Citigroup. Joel helped launch NBC News' Education Nation, a multi-media enterprise focused on engaging the public in a conversation about improving education in the U.S. He is Chairman of the hundred year-old non-profit New Yorkers for Parks and is a Trustee of uAspire, a national non-profit focused on college affordability. Joel is currently a member of the Economic Club of New York and a former term member at the Council of Foreign Relations. In 2014, he was named a David…
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