Ruth Berg
Ruth Berg has spent her career working to advance public health and leveraging the private sector to advance health outcomes. As a Managing Partner at Palladium, Ruth leads Palladium’s Health Practice in the Americas, which includes over a dozen projects implemented by over 500 staff and consultants. She brings 20 years of experience leading the […]
Remy Raisner
Mr. Raisner is the Founder and CEO of The Raisner Group (formerly Proteus Capital Management), a real estate private equity firm headquartered in New York City. Initially, The Raisner Group purchased distressed apartment buildings auctioned off by banks. Since then, it has made instrumental contributions to the rebirth of Brooklyn. Under his leadership, Proteus has […]
Strive Masiyiwa
Entrepreneur. Trustee, Rockefeller Foundation. Director, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Agriculture. Founder: Carbon War Room; Capernaum Trust, a foundation that provides scholarships to 26,000 orphans in Africa. Recipient of awards: 10 Most Outstanding Young Persons of the World, Junior Chamber International (1999); one of the 15 Global Influentials of the Year, CNN Time Poll […]
H.E. María Juliana Ruiz Sandoval
María Juliana Ruiz nació en Bogotá. Es hija de Luis Fernando Ruiz y Gloria Sandoval. Está casada hace 17 años con el Presidente de la República de Colombia, Iván Duque Márquez, y son padres de tres hijos: Luciana, Matías y Eloísa. Se graduó de bachiller del Colegio Marymount y obtuvo su título de Abogada de […]
H.E. María Juliana Ruiz Sandoval
Born May 23, 1978 in Bogotá, Colombia. Daughter of Luis Fernando Ruiz and Gloria Sandoval. She has been married with the President of Colombia, Ivan Duque Marquez, for 15 years. They have three children: Luciana, Matías, and Eloísa. She graduated from Marymount School and attended Javeriana University where she received the degree of lawyer. She […]
Abdelghni Lakhdar
Abdelghni Lakhdar is CEO of the Millennium Challenge Account-Morocco Agency in charge of the implementation of a $450 million compact between Morocco and the US Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC). The compact is focused on two major projects: “Education and training for employability and “Land productivity”. Previously, he was the economic adviser to the Head of […]
Mamadou Biteye
Mamadou Biteye is Vice President, Inclusive Growth at VISA, based in Dubai. Mamadou is responsible for Visa’s Global Inclusive Growth Strategy, the global social impact programming, stakeholder engagement, measurement and thought leadership. Mamadou has over 25 years of experience in strategic leadership, advocacy and campaigning, community development, and capacity building with extensive field experience in […]
Robert Shuter
Rob Shuter has been Group President and CEO of MTN Group Limited since March 13, 2017. Mr. Shuter has extensive experience in the telecoms sector in both Africa and Europe as well as in financial services. Before joining MTN Rob was the CEO of the Vodafone Europe Cluster responsible for Vodafone’s operations in 9 European […]
Dr. James Mwangi
Dr. James Mwangi is one of Africa’s most renowned thought leaders, a disruptive entrepreneur and philanthropist. As the Group CEO of Equity Group Holdings, James is credited with democratizing financial access. He has led Equity to become an integrated financial services Group operating in 6 African countries with a client base of over 14 million, […]
Jeremy Johnson
Jeremy is the CEO and co-founder of Andela, a company founded on the idea that brilliance is evenly distributed. With that as their backbone, Andela invests in Africa’s most talented software developers to help companies build high-performing engineering teams. Prior to founding Andela, Jeremy co-founded 2U, one of the world’s fastest growing education technology startups. […]
Dr. Mukhisa Kituyi
Mukhisa Kituyi, of Kenya, became UNCTAD’s seventh Secretary-General on 1 September 2013. After serving an initial four-year term, he was reappointed by the General Assembly in July 2017 for an additional term that began on 1 September that year. Dr. Kituyi has an extensive background as an elected official, an academic, and a holder of […]