John Sanbrailo
John Sanbrailo has been Executive Director of the Pan American Development Foundation since 1999. He has over 40 years of experience managing international development programs and disaster assistance with funding from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, the Organization of American States, corporate and private donors, and […]
Namira Salim
Namira Salim, is a Monaco based is a Pakistani explorer, future astronaut and artist. Being the only Pakistani member of Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic, the world’s first commercial space liner, she is widely known as the first future South Asian Space Tourist. Namira is the first Pakistani and first woman from Monaco to have […]
Marcelo Salazar
Marcelo Salazar is the adjunct coordinator of the Amazon Xingu Program of the Instituto Socioambiental (ISA) in Brazil. He is a Brazilian industrial engineer and author of books, studies and papers published in some academic journals and newspapers. Marcelo has worked with traditional Amazon communities for 18 years to support their sustainable development and protect […]
Francisco Rodríguez
Francisco Rodríguez is Chief Economist and Managing Director at Torino Capital. Previously, he was director and senior Andean economist at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Rodríguez has held numerous positions in academia and public policy. Between 2000 and 2004 he headed the Venezuelan Congressional Budget Office. He has taught economics at the University of Maryland […]
Kasim Reed
Kasim Reed is the 59th Mayor of the City of Atlanta. He was elected to a second term on November 5, 2013 and took the oath of office on January 6, 2014. Elected with a clear mandate for fiscal reform, Mayor Reed has increased core city services and reduced the City’s spending during the worst […]
Minister Pavlo Petrenko
Born on 17 July 1979 in Chernivtsi, Ukraine. Education: 2001 Graduated from the Law faculty of Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University (diploma with honors, speciality «Jurisprudence», Academic Level «Master of Laws»). 2004 Graduated from the Ukrainian Academy of Foreign Trade under the Ministry of Economy of Ukraine (speciality «Management of International Economic Activity», Academic Level […]
Aaron Oesterle
Hon. Catherine McKenna
Catherine McKenna was elected the first female Member of Parliament (MP) in Ottawa Centre on October 19, 2015. On November 4, 2015 she was appointed Minister of Environment and Climate Change. Before a career in politics, Catherine co-founded and was the Executive Director of Canadian Lawyers Abroad, a charitable organization based at the University of Ottawa. […]
H.E. Fuad Masum
Dr. Fuad Masum, President of the Republic of Iraq, a liberal orientation in spite of affiliation to a religious family great. He is the son of Sheikh Mohammed Mullah Fuad Masum, the head of the Kurdistan scientists and advocates of rapprochement sectarian and religious coexistence. Koya was born in 1938. Is married and has five daughters. learning […]
Jimena Leiva Roesch
Jimena Leiva Roesch joined IPI in April 2015. From 2009 to March 2015, Jimena was at the Permanent Mission of Guatemala to the UN in New York, where she last served as Counselor. She was the lead negotiator for the sustainable development goals and the 2030 Agenda. She was also Guatemala’s focal point for the United […]
Miriam Kornblith
Venezuelan sociologist and political scientist. Current Senior Director of the Latin America and Caribbean Program at the National Endowment for Democracy. Former Vice President of the Venezuelan National Electoral Council.