His Excellency, Mr. Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo
President of the Republic of Ghana
He was elected President of Ghana and has been in office since January 2017.
Akufo-Addo also served as Chair of the Commonwealth Observer Mission for
the South African elections in 2014. He previously served as Attorney General
from 2001 to 2003 and as Minister for Foreign Affairs from 2003 to 2007
under the Kufuor led administration.
He graduated as an economist from the University of Ghana in 1964. A
graduate of the Oxford University, he practiced law in England and France
before returning to Ghana.
September 2019
Bill Gates
Co-Chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Bill Gates is co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Along with co-
chair Melinda Gates, he shapes and approves grantmaking strategies,
advocates for the foundation’s issues, and helps set the overall direction of the
organization.
Bill began his major philanthropic efforts in 1994, when he created the
William H. Gates Foundation, which focused on global health. Three years
later, he and Melinda created the Gates Library Foundation, which worked to
bring public access computers with Internet connections to libraries in the
United States. Its name changed to the Gates Learning Foundation in 1999. In
2000, to increase efficiency and communication, the two groups merged into
the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
In 1975, Gates left Harvard University in his junior year to focus on Microsoft,
the company he founded with his childhood friend Paul Allen. In July 2008,
Gates transitioned into a new role as chairman of Microsoft and advisor on
some key development projects.
He is a member of the board of directors of Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
September 2019
Sola David-Borha
CEO Africa Regions, Standard Bank Group
Sola David-Borha is the Chief Executive of Africa Regions for Standard Bank
Group since 2017. She served as Chief Executive of Stanbic IBTC holdings
until January 2017 having also served as its Deputy Chief Executive Officer
and Executive Director Corporate and Investment Banking Coverage for
Africa.
She was Chief Executive Stanbic IBTC Bank from May 2011 to November
2012.
Ms. David-Borha has led and sat on various boards including being the former
Vice Chairman for the Nigerian Economic Summit Group, subsidiaries of the
Stanbic IBTC and Standard Bank Groups, Coca-Cola HBG AG, and many
others.
She holds an MBA from Manchester Business School and a Bachelor of
Science in Economics from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. She has
attended the Harvard Advanced Management Programme (AMP) Business
School and global CEO program (IESE, Wharton, CEIBS).
September 2019
Sarah Cliffe
Director, New York University’s Center on International Cooperation
Sarah F. Cliffe is currently the director of New York University’s Center on
International Cooperation. Prior to that, she was the Special Representative for
the World Bank’s World Development Report on Conflict, Security and
Development, and the Special Adviser and Assistant Secretary-General of
Civilian Capacities to the United Nations.
Cliffe has worked for the last twenty years in countries emerging from conflict
and political transition. At the World Bank, her work has covered post-conflict
reconstruction, community driven development, and civil service reform.
Cliffe has also worked for the United Nations Development Programme in
Rwanda, the Government of South Africa, and the Congress of South African
Trade Unions, as well as for a major management consultancy company in the
United Kingdom on public sector reform issues.
Cliffe has a Bachelor’s degree in history from Cambridge’s University and a
Master’s degree in international relations and international economic policy
from Columbia University.
September 2019
Keven P. Gallagher
Professor of Global Development Policy and Director, Global Development
Policy Center, Boston University
Dr. Kevin P. Gallagher is a professor of global development policy at Boston
University’s Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, where he directs
the Global Development Policy Center.
Gallagher is the author or co-author of six books. He serves on the United
Nations’ Committee for Development Policy and co-chairs the T-20 Task
Force on International Financial Architecture at the G-20. He previously
served on the investment sub-committee of the Advisory Committee on
International Economic Policy at the US Department of State and on the
National Advisory Committee at the Environmental Protection Agency.
Gallagher has been a visiting or adjunct professor at the Paul Nitze School of
Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, the Fletcher
School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University; El Colegio de Mexico in
Mexico; Tsinghua University in China, and the Center for State and Society in
Argentina.
Gallagher holds a Bachelor’s degree from Northeastern University, a Master in
International Environmental Policy and a PhD in International Political
Economy from Tufts University.
September 2019
Irene Ovonji-Odida
Independent Commissioner, ICRICT & member, Pan African Lawyers Union
IFFs Task Force. Formerly member AU/ECA High Level Panel on IFFs (Mbeki
HLP) & International Board Chair, ActionAid International
Irene Ovonji-Odida is currently a member of the Illicit Financial Flows Task
Force Pan African Lawyers Union, Tax Steering Group South Centre and
Independent Commission ICRICT.
As CEO of the Uganda Women Lawyers Association from 2013 – 2018, she
repositioned it as a strong force for women’s human rights, social justice and
the Rule of Law. Irene Ovonji-Odida was appointed to the AU/ UNECA High
Level Panel on Illicit Financial flows from 2012-2015.
As a regional MP in East African Legislative Assembly from 2001 to 2006,
she led initiatives for regional conflict resolution and effective oversight by
African legislators in trade negotiations. From 1994-2001 she worked in key
government agencies which anchored major national initiatives.
Ovonji-Odida has been a leader in civil society since 1988 in the women’s and
human rights movements. She has been a member of national and international
boards and was international board chair of ActionAid International and also a
member of the African Advisory Board of The ONE Foundation. She has
authored or contributed to publications on women’s land rights in Uganda,
constitutionalism and East African regional integration.
Irene Ovonji-Odida holds a Master’s degree in Comparative Jurisprudence
from Howard University, USA.
September 2019
Sneha Sanghrajka Shah
Global Head of Risk Managed Services at Refinitiv
In her current role as Global Head of Risk Managed Services, Ms. Shah is
responsible for the profitable and sustainable growth of Refinitiv’s Know Your
Customer, Screening Resolution Services, Client Onboarding and Enhanced
Due Diligence Businesses.
Prior to Refinitiv, she was appointed Managing Director of Africa for
Thomson Reuters in April 2015, and led all of the Financial, Risk, Tax and
Legal businesses across the region.
Ms. Shah joined Thomson Reuters in 2001 in New York and held several
global leadership roles across the Financial and Media business units in
operations, product development and technology before moving back to South
Africa to lead the Financial and Risk business for Thomson Reuters across
Africa in 2013.
Prior to joining Thomson Reuters, she was a Commodities Trader for Cargill
in South Africa and traded money markets and foreign exchange at CFC Bank
in Kenya. Sneha holds a BA (Hons) degree in Politics with International
Studies from the University of Warwick.
September 2019
Matthew Bishop
Managing Director, Bellagio and Fellows Program Global Policy and Advocacy,
the Rockefeller Foundation
Matthew Bishop joined The Rockefeller Foundation after spending nearly 30
years at The Economist serving as the Economist U.S. Business Editor and
New York Bureau Chief. Previously, he was the London based business editor.
Along with serving as a writer and editor at The Economist, Bishop co-
founded the Social Progress Index, helped to launch the #GivingTuesday
campaign, and was a member of the G8 Taskforce on Social Impact Investing.
He is the co-author of several books, including Philanthrocapitalism: How
Giving Can Save the World and The Road From Ruin.
Before joining The Economist, Bishop was on the faculty of London Business
School. Bishop was educated at Oxford University.
September 2019
Eric LeCompte
Executive Director, Jubilee USA Network
Eric LeCompte is the Executive Director of Jubilee USA Network, a
development coalition of more than 650 religious groups and US organizations.
He is a member of expert working groups to the United Nations Conference on
Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the United Nations Human Rights
Office of the High Commissioner.
LeCompte serves on boards of faith-based, development and financial
transparency organizations. He is a member of the executive board of the
Financial Accountability and Corporate Transparency (FACT) Coalition.
LeCompte is the former national council chair of Pax Christi USA. He also
previously worked for the School of the Americas Watch, Catholic Worker
and Fellowship of Reconciliation.
LeCompte holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in sociology from College of Saint
Benedict and Saint John's University.
September 2019
Gita Gopinath
Chief Economist, IMF
Gita Gopinath is the Economic Counsellor and Director of the Research
Department at the International Monetary Fund (IMF). She is on leave of
public service from Harvard University’s Economics department where she is
the John Zwaanstra Professor of International Studies and of Economics.
She is the co-editor of the current Handbook of International Economics and
was earlier the co-editor of the American Economic Review and managing
editor of the Review of Economic Studies. She had also previously served as
the co-director of the International Finance and Macroeconomics program at
the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), a visiting scholar at the
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, and member of the economic advisory panel
of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. From 2016-18, she was the
Economic Adviser to the Chief Minister of Kerala state in India.
Gopinath is an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
and of the Econometric Society. In 2019, Foreign Policy named her one of the
Top Global Thinkers, in 2014, she was named one of the top 25 economists
under 45 by the IMF and in 2011 she was chosen a Young Global Leader
(YGL) by the World Economic Forum.
She received her Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University in 2001 after
earning a B.A. from Lady Shri Ram College and M.A. degrees from Delhi
School of Economics and University of Washington.
September 2019
Rebeca Grynspan
SG, Ibero-American General Secretariat
Rebeca Grynspan took office as Ibero-American Secretary-General on 2014
and her mandate was renewed for a further four-year term in 2018.
In 2010 she was named Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations (UN)
and Associate Administrator of the United Nations Development Program
(UNDP). From 2006 to 2010, she was UNDP Regional Director for Latin
America and the Caribbean.
Prior to joining the UN, Grynspan served as Vice-President of Costa Rica from
1994 to 1998. She was also Minister of Housing, Minister Coordinator of
Economic and Social Affairs, and Deputy Minister of Finance.
She has been actively involved in key United Nations initiatives, such as the
Millennium Project’s Task Force on Poverty and Economic Development and
the High-level Panel on Financing for Development.
Grynspan holds a degree in Economics by the University of Costa Rica and a
MSc in Economics by the University of Sussex. She has been awarded a
Doctorate Honoris Causa by the University of Salamanca, the University of
Extremadura and the European University of Madrid in recognition of her
professional career.
September 2019
Baba Yusuf Musa
DG, West African Institute for Financial and Economic Management
Mr. Baba Y. Musa is currently Director General of the West African Institute
for Financial and Economic Management (WAIFEM) a capacity building
institution owned by the Anglophone Central Banks of West Africa,
headquarters in Lagos Nigeria. Previously, Dr Musa has held the position of
Director, Debt Management Department at WAIFEM from 2006 - 2018.
Prior to joining WAIFEM, Musa had a 21-year stint at the Central Bank of
Nigeria, where he worked in both the Research and the International Economic
Relations Departments.
Over the last 23 years, Mr. Musa has been facilitating debt management
training and capacity building activities of public sector officials in West
Africa and beyond. Musa had served for 5 years (2008 - 2013) as a member of
the Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) of the World Bank Debt
Management Facility and was Chairman of the Implementation Coordination
Group (ICG) of the World Bank Debt Management Facility from 2016-2019.
He is an adviser on debt management to some state governments in Nigeria.
He has many publications and partnered and facilitated debt management
capacity building activities in Africa and beyond with many international
organisations such as IMF, World Bank UNCTAD, UNITAR and African
Capacity Building Foundation. He is currently a council member of Nigerian
Economic Society and holds B.Sc Degree in Economics, master’s in Business
Administration and Ph.D.in. Economic
September 2019
Gillian Tett
Chairman of Editorial Board (US) and Editor at large, Financial Times
Gillian Tett is chair of the editorial board and editor-at-large, US of the
Financial Times. She writes weekly columns, covering a range of economic,
financial, political and social issues.
In 2014, she was named Columnist of the Year in the British Press Awards and
was the first recipient of the Royal Anthropological Institute Marsh Award. In
June 2009 her book Fool’s Gold won Financial Book of the Year at the
inaugural Spear’s Book Awards.
Tett’s past roles at the FT have included US managing editor, assistant editor,
capital markets editor, deputy editor of the Lex column, Tokyo bureau chief,
and a reporter in Russia and Brussels.
September 2019
Tharman Shanmugaratnam
Senior Minister of the Republic of Singapore and Chair of the G20 Eminent
Persons Group on Global Financial Governance
Mr Tharman Shanmugaratnam was appointed Senior Minister on 1 May 2019.
He is also Coordinating Minister for Social Policies and advises the Prime
Minister on economic policies. He had previously served, from 2011, as
Deputy Prime Minister.
He is concurrently the Chairman of the Monetary Authority of Singapore
(MAS), Singapore’s central bank and financial regulator. In addition to his
responsibilities in the Government, he is Deputy Chairman of GIC and chairs
its Investment Strategies Committee.
Tharman chairs the Group of Thirty, an independent global council of
economic and financial leaders. He also chaired the G20 Eminent Persons
Group on Global Financial Governance. He earlier led the International
Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC) for four years from 2011. He
currently also co-chairs the Advisory Board for the UN’s 2019 Human
Development Report and serves on the World Economic Forum’s Board of
Trustees.
Tharman has spent his working life in public service, in roles principally
related to economic and social policies.
He studied at the London School of Economics and Cambridge University. He
later obtained a Master’s in Public Administration at Harvard University,
where he was named a Lucius N Littauer Fellow.
September 2019
David Lipton
Acting Managing Director, IMF
David Lipton was appointed Acting Managing Director of the International
Monetary Fund on July 2, 2019. He assumed the position of First Deputy
Managing Director on 2011 and was reappointed for a second five-year term
beginning September 1, 2016.
Before coming to the Fund, Lipton was Special Assistant to the President, and
served as Senior Director for International Economic Affairs at the National
Economic Council and National Security Council at the White House.
Previously, Lipton was a Managing Director at Citi, where he was Head of
Global Country Risk Management. Prior to joining Citi in May 2005, he spent
five years at Moore Capital Management, a global hedge fund and, before that,
a year at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Lipton served in the Clinton administration at the Treasury Department from
1993 to 1998. Before joining the Clinton administration, Lipton was a fellow
at the Woodrow Wilson Center of Scholars. From 1989 to 1992, he teamed up
with Prof. Jeffrey Sachs, working as economic advisers to the governments of
Russia, Poland and Slovenia during their transitions to capitalism.
Lipton began his career with eight years on the staff of the International
Monetary Fund, working on economic stabilization issues in emerging market
and poor countries. He earned a PhD. and M.A. from Harvard University in
1982 and a B.A. from Wesleyan University in 1975.
September 2019
Frank Elderson
Executive Director of Supervision, Netherlands Bank
Frank Elderson has been an Executive Director of Supervision at DNB since 1
July 2011. He is a member of the Supervisory Board of the European Central
Bank.
Elderson holds several secondary positions. He has chaired the Central Banks
and Supervisors Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS) since
2018 and the Sustainable Finance Platform since 2016. He has also chaired the
FEC Board since 2016, the Supervisory Board of the Dutch Reading
Foundation since 2017 and the Management Board of the Nederlands
Vioolconcours Foundation since 2016. Before joining the Governing Board,
Elderson served as DNB's General Counsel (2008-2011). He was the Director
of the Legal Services Division (2007) and Head of the ABN AMRO
Supervision Department (2006).
After joining DNB in 1999, Elderson held various management positions in
the Legal Services Division, as well as representing DNB on various working
groups of the European System of Central Banks (ESCB). He started his
professional career in 1995 as a lawyer with Houthoff Advocaten & Notarissen.
Elderson earned his degree in Dutch law at the University of Amsterdam in
1994. He obtained an LLM degree from Columbia Law School, in the United
States, in 1995. Frank Elderson was sworn in as a lawyer in the Netherlands in
1995.
September 2019
Akinwumi Adesina
President, African Development Bank Group
Dr. Akinwumi Ayodeji Adesina was elected President of the African
Development Bank Group in 2015. He previously served as Nigeria’s Minister
of Agriculture and Rural Development.
Adesina was Vice-President of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa
(AGRA) and Associate Director at the Rockefeller Foundation in New York,
where he worked for a decade in senior leadership positions, including as
Regional Office Director and Representative for Southern Africa.
Dr. Adesina was Principal Economist for the International Institute of Tropical
Agriculture, Principal Economist and Coordinator of the West Africa Rice
Economics Task Force at the West Africa Rice Development Association and
Assistant Principal Economist at the International Crop Research Institute for
the Semi-Arid Tropics. He was also the President of the African Association of
Agricultural Economists.
Dr. Adesina has a Bachelor’s degree in agricultural economics from the
University of Ife, Nigeria, and a PhD in Agricultural Economics from Purdue
University in the United States, where he won the Outstanding PhD Thesis
Award. He also won the prestigious Rockefeller Foundation Social Science
Post-Doctoral Fellowship in 1988.
September 2019
Anne Finucane
Vice Chair and CEO of Bank of America
Anne M. Finucane is vice chairman at Bank of America and also serves as
chairman of the board of Bank of America Merrill Lynch Europe. As a
member of the executive management team, Finucane is responsible for the
strategic positioning of Bank of America and leads the company’s
environmental, social and governance (ESG), capital deployment, and public
policy efforts.
Active in the community, Finucane serves on a variety of corporate and
nonprofit boards of directors including Carnegie Hall, the National September
11 Memorial & Museum, The Ireland Funds, the World Bank Group’s Women
Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative (We-Fi), CVS Health, Brigham and Women’s
Hospital, Partners Healthcare, and Special Olympics. She served on the U.S.
State Department’s Foreign Affairs Policy board and is a member of the
Council on Foreign Relations.
Finucane has received numerous professional and public service accolades.
Most recently, she was inducted into the Advertising Hall of Fame. She has
been named to Fortune’s Most Powerful Women and Forbes’ Most Powerful
Women lists, and American Banker magazine annually names her among the
25 Most Powerful Women in Banking.
September 2019
Mark Wiseman
Chairman, BlackRock Alternative Investors
Mark Wiseman is Global Head of Active Equities for BlackRock and
Chairman of BlackRock Alternative Investors. A Senior Managing Director,
he also serves as Chairman of the firm’s Global Investment Committee and on
its Global Executive Committee.
Wiseman joined BlackRock in 2016 from the Canada Pension Plan Investment
Board (CPPIB) where he served as its President and CEO since 2012. Before
becoming CEO, Wiseman was Executive Vice-President, Investments, for
CPPIB. He joined CPPIB in June 2005 as Senior Vice-President, Private
Investments.
Prior to joining CPPIB, Wiseman was responsible for the private equity fund
and co-investment program at the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan. He has
worked as an officer with Harrowston Inc. and as a lawyer with Sullivan &
Cromwell, where he practiced in New York and Paris. He also served as a law
clerk to Madam Justice Beverley McLachlin at the Supreme Court of Canada.
Wiseman earned a Bachelor’s degree from Queen’s University as well as a law
degree and an MBA from the University of Toronto. He also was a Fulbright
Scholar at Yale University, where he obtained a Master of Laws degree.
Wiseman is a regular lecturer at the Harvard Business School and an adjunct
professor at Tsinghua University.
September 2019
Maurice Tulloch
CEO, Aviva
On 4 March 2019 Maurice Tulloch was appointed as Chief Executive Officer
of Aviva plc.
Tulloch joined Aviva in 1992 and was most recently Chief Executive Officer
International Insurance and Chairman of Global General Insurance. He joined
the Board of Aviva plc as an Executive Director on 20 June 2017.
Previously Tulloch was Chief Executive Officer of Aviva UK and Ireland
General Insurance. Prior to that, he was President and Chief Executive Officer
of Aviva Canada. Prior to that he was Executive Vice-President and Chief
Operating Officer, Aviva Ontario and specialty distribution and has held
several senior management positions in Aviva.
Tulloch is a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA, CMA), and holds an
MBA from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh and a BA in Economics from
the University of Waterloo.
Tulloch is a Board member of The Geneva Association, a leading international
think tank for the insurance industry. He's also a member of the Insurance
Development Forum (IDF) and a Non-Executive Director of Pool Re. Tulloch
was previously Chair of ClimateWise.
September 2019
Julie Hanna
Executive Chairwoman, Kiva
Julie Hanna has been a Kiva board member since 2009. She is an entrepreneur,
investor and advisor working with purpose-driven, technology companies to
solve humanity’s greatest challenges. In 2015, President Obama appointed her
Presidential Ambassador for Global Entrepreneurship to help develop the next
generation of entrepreneurs.
Serving in roles that ranged from founding executive to founder and CEO,
Hanna has pioneered products and led companies that have allowed millions of
people to connect, communicate and collaborate globally. Among them,
Healtheon (now WebMD), onebox.com (now Unwired Planet), Portola
(acquired by Netscape) and open source pioneer, Scalix.
Hanna is an internationally acclaimed speaker and advocate for the
democratizing potential of technology to enable a more just world at scale. In
recognition of her vision and global impact on economic and social progress,
Hanna was named the United States Woman Icon of APEC and is a recipient
of the 2016 Global Empowerment Award.
September 2019
Eric Xiandong Jing
Executive chairman and CEO, Ant Financial Services Group
Eric Jing has been Ant Financial’s CEO since October 2016 and its Chairman
since April 2018. He also serves on the boards of Alibaba Group and Paytm,
the leading payments platform in India, in addition to serving as chairman of
the board of MYbank.
Under Eric Jing’s leadership, Ant Financial has forged strategic partnerships
around the world with Paytm in India, KakaoPay in Korea, Ascend Money in
Thailand, Mynt in the Philippines and Emtek in Indonesia.
As part of Ant Financial’s financial inclusion mission, Eric Jing serves as a
senior consultant of the World Bank’s Identification for Development, as well
as a senior consultant for the World Economic Forum.
Prior to assuming the role of CEO, he held various management positions at
Ant Financial, including President and COO. He also served as CFO of Alipay
and in other leadership positions at Alibaba Group. Before joining Alibaba in
2007, he was CFO of Pepsi-Cola Guangzhou and held various management
positions at Swire Coca-Cola.
Eric Jing received his Bachelor of Engineering degree from the College of
Economics & Management at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and earned an
Executive MBA from the Carlson School of Management at the University of
Minnesota.
September 2019
Michael Sabia
President and CEO of the Caisse de depot et placement du Quebec
President and Chief Executive Officer since March 2009, Michael Sabia is
responsible for the strategic direction of CDPQ and the global growth of the
organization.
Before joining CDPQ, he was with BCE, holding such positions as President
and Chief Executive Officer, Executive Vice-President and Chief Operating
Officer, and Chief Executive Officer of Bell Canada International. From 1993
to 1999, he occupied various roles with Canadian National Railway, including
Chief Financial Officer. He spent the preceding decade working as a senior
official in the Government of Canada.
Sabia is a member of the Canadian government’s Advisory Council on
Economic Growth. He is a trustee of the Foreign Policy Association of New
York and a member of the Canada-Mexico Leadership Group and the Asia
Business Leaders Advisory Council. Sabia is an Officer of the Order of
Canada.
Sabia obtained a Bachelor of Arts in economics and politics from the
University of Toronto and holds graduate degrees in economics and politics
from Yale University.
September 2019