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President of World Bank Group, Islamic Development Bank, African Development Bank, Asian Development Bank, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Inter-American Development Bank respectively.

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Following a career as a photographer and video producer, Alice began working in financial services as an IFA in 2007. She began her career as an investment writer and financial journalist in 2009, working for a number of top financial institutions while obtaining extensive expertise writing for a range of industries and audiences. Alice went to St Andrews University to study English and Russian.

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Argentina’s Energy Secretary in 2002, and subsequently its World Bank representative. Alieto Guadagni has a doctorate in economics from the University of Chile. In 1991 he undertook the role of undersecretary of Production for Defense in the Ministry of Defense in Argentina, and consequently became secretary of International Economic Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Relations. In 1993, Guadagni was appointed an official ambassador of Brazil. He has worked as a consultant for international organisations such as the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the World Bank, the Organization of American States, and the United Nations, in addition to being a researcher at the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella.

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Senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. Adjunct professor at Georgetown University. Per Anders Aslund is a Swedish economist and a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council. Additionally, he is the chairman of the International Advisory Council at the Center for Social and Economic Research. From 2003 Aslund was the director of the Russian and Eurasian Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. His work mainly focuses on the economic transition from centrally planned to market economies. Anders Aslund has been dubbed by David Frum as ‘one of the world’s leading experts on the collapse of the planned Soviet economy.’

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