Xavier Decoster is a Senior Digital Development Specialist within the Digital Development Global Practice. He has been working with the World Bank since 2015 to support digital connectivity and services operations in the Africa region (Central African Republic, Chad, Ethiopia, Mali, and Niger) and in the MENA region (Algeria, Djibouti, West Bank & Gaza, Tunisia). Since 2020 he is now focused…
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Ali Ahmad is a Climate Change Specialist at the World Bank's Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Sustainable Development Department. So far, Ali's career at the Bank has focused on issues at the intersection of energy, climate change and development, with focus on MENA FCV contexts. Prior to joining the World Bank, Ali was a research fellow at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government (…
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Hervé Ndoba has been Minister of Finance and Budget since June 2021. Before his current position, Mr. Ndoba had an international career in the private sector. In 2013, he served as chief administrative and financial officer for a port towing conglomerate in Côte d’Ivoire, where he engineered and implemented the consolidation of the group’s subsidiaries in sub-Saharan Africa. While he worked as…
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H. E. Dr. Maeen Abdulmalik Saeed was appointed the Prime Minister of the Republic of Yemen in October 2018. Prior to this position, H.E. Dr. Saeed served as the Minister of Public Works and Roads in Yemen during 2017-2018 and the Vice-Minister of Public Works and Roads from 2015- 2017. He was also a member of the Conciliation Commission at Yemen's National Dialogue Conference from 2013- 2015 and…
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Aisha Williams is IFC’s Director for Blended Finance and Corporate Strategy. She manages a team of investment professionals responsible for concessional co-investments alongside IFC, originating from over $5 billion of blended finance facilities across investment themes that include fragile and low-income countries, gender, climate, agribusiness, and small and medium enterprises. She oversees IFC…
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Gustavo Beliz is an Argentinian politician and expert in global governance. As Secretary of Strategic Affairs, he is a cabinet minister and is responsible for designing and implementing the foreign relations strategy for the Office of the President, working in partnership with Argentina's other ministries. He leads the countries efforts with multilateral organizations. He served during the…,
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Born on June 20, 1968, in Wrocław. Polish politician and manager, former CEO of Bank Zachodni WBK. Graduate of the University of Wrocław, Business Administration Central Connecticut State University and the Wrocław University of Technology, MBA studies at the Wrocław University of Economics, University of Hamburg and the University of Basel. In 1998, he was a member of the group negotiating…
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