Focus: Government/Politics
Ilir Dugolli
Ilir Dugolli currently serves as Ambassador of Kosovo to the United States, having previously served as Ambassador of Kosovo to Turkey. Following Kosovo's independence, he was among the first group of diplomats charged with establishing Kosovo's diplomatic missions. He previously held ambassadorships to Pakistan, Jordan, Afghanistan, Sweden, and Belgium. He has also served as Director for NATO and Security Policies at the Kosovo's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Ilir has been involved with a number of civil society initiatives, including as president of the board for the Project on Ethnic Relations – Kosovo, as co-founder of KIPRED (Kosovar Institute for Policy Research and Development), and as co-founder of D4D (Democracy for…
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Leslie Brown
Leslie Brown is Senior Advisor with the NYC Office of Technology and Innovation (OTI). OTI was created by executive order under Mayor Eric Adams consolidating all NYC tech agencies and offices, including NYC Cyber Command, 311, DOITT, Office of Data Analytics, and the Office of Information Privacy with a combined contract procurement portfolio of $6.4 billion.  In this role Leslie preps the Chief Technology Officer and other principals for legislative hearings and other public-facing tech and innovation stakeholder domestic and international engagements.  Leslie works to advance OTI’s legislative agenda in collaboration with internal subject matter leads and the NYC City Hall Intergovernmental Affairs team to foster knowledge sharing and engagement on shared…
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Beatriz Boza
Beatriz Boza leads the Corporate Governance and Sustainability practice at EY Peru. She is also Founder and Chair of Ciudadanos al DĂa, a Peruvian-based not for profit and market-maker for good-government best practices. She has held several high ranking government appointments, including being a member of the Board of Directors of Peru’s Central Reserve Bank, Chief of Staff to Peru's Minister of Finance, President of PromPeru, Peru’s Investment and Tourism Promotion Board, and President of Indecopi, Peru´s Competition, Consumer Protection and Intellectual Property Office. Prior to joining EY, Beatriz served as an independent director of publicly listed and private companies in retail, export, and extractive industries. She has extensive experience…
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Prodyut Bora
Prodyut Bora is an Indian politician and Founder and Chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party of India. Previously, he was the National Executive Member of the Bharatiya Janata Party, India's principal opposition party and State General Secretary for BJP Assam, the National Convener of BJP’s Information Technology Cell, and a member of BJP’s National Media Cell. He directed a private software company for six years before entering politics. Prodyut is also a prolific writer—his opinion pieces have been carried in the Indian Express, The Times of India, The Economic Times, and The Pioneer.
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Cecilia Barja-Chamas
Cecilia Barja-Chamas is a writer of narratives that mobilize to act on behalf of the ousted and disenfranchised. She works in the public sector and civil society leading complex multi-sector, multi-year, and cross-borders sustainable programs in her home country Bolivia and throughout Latin America. Being part of a new generation that started a new era of politics in Bolivia, and later as a team member that built systemic change toward sustainable development in the Pan Amazon and the peace process in Colombia, she has deepened her understanding of the complexity and beauty of social processes towards the common good. She was a Mason Fellow at the Ash Center at Harvard…
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Janah Ncube
Janah Ncube is Deputy Chief Executive Officer at Crisis Action, a global organization working on the protection of civilians in conflict. Previously Janah was the Pan Africa Director at Oxfam. Her work as a global development strategist has informed systems and structural changes to multilateral institutions such as SADC, AU, AfDB and the UN on regional integration, governance, gender, peace and security, and has saved lives in the over 15 crisis situations across the world she has worked on. Janah serves as a board member and advisor of several local and international boards, governmental, and church bodies. She founded Inspiring Africa, a platform that mentors women and youth and inspires…
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Amira Yahyaoui
Amira Yahyaoui is a Tunisian human rights advocate and founder of the award-winning Al Bawsala, a public policy and accountability NGO. Al Baswala monitors the work of the Tunisian Parliament, the Constitutional Assembly, and Tunisian city halls, using technology to make information accessible to citizens. When she was a teenager, Amira was banned from her homeland for her human rights activism and fled to Paris as a refugee. After the Arab Spring, Amira returned to Tunisia for the political transition and writing of the new Tunisian constitution. She won a Vital Voices Global Trailblazer award in 2012 for women transforming the Middle East and was named top 100 most powerful…
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Julien Steimer
Julien Steimer is CEO of AXA Indonesia, a leading insurance company headquartered in France. Convinced of the added value of public-private partnerships, Julien served the French government for over a decade in the areas of agricultural policy reform, global food security, and EU affairs. From 2009-2012, he shaped the political strategy of the French Ministry of Agriculture, a department with a EUR 15.5 billion budget. Julien successfully led high-level negotiations on the Agricultural Action Plan adopted by G20 Heads of State in 2011 and the first-ever signed Franco-German agreement on Common Agricultural Policy. Previously, he served as Deputy Director for European Issues in the French Foreign Service, where he planned,…
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Andriy Shevchenko
Andriy Shevchenko is a prominent Ukrainian politician, diplomat, journalist, and civil activist. In 2015-21 he served as the Ukrainian Ambassador to Canada. Prior to that, he was a Member of the Ukrainian Parliament, winning seats in 2006, 2007, and 2012. He served as the Chairman of the Free Speech Committee and the 1st Deputy Chairman of the Human Rights Committee. Andriy is the author of the Law on Access to Public Information and was an active participant of the Euromaidan Revolution of 2013-14. As a seasoned journalist, he helped to establish the 5th Channel, the first 24/7-news channel in Ukraine, and became the face of the 2004 Orange Revolution for viewers. Prior to this,…
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Pablo AmĂlcar Sandoval Ballesteros
Pablo AmĂlcar Sandoval Ballesteros is a Mexican politician and activist serving as State Coordinator of the Development Programs of the State of Guerrero. He was previously Coordinator of the Morena Parliamentary group and President of the Political Coordination Board (2018). He was a member of the Party of the Democratic Revolution, serving as Secretary of national organization. He was national delegate of the CEN of the PRD in the campaign for the government of Guerrero and the state of Mexico in 2005. In the public sector, Pablo has served as director of Control and Evaluation in the Federal District Government and was part of the AndrĂ©s Manuel LĂłpez Obrador Advisory…
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