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Paula Garcia Tufro

Paula Garcia Tufro is a project director at the U.S. Institute of Peace where she leads the strategic direction and execution of USIP’s Interorganizational Global Forum, focused on great power competition in the context of state fragility in Venezuela. Prior to joining USIP, she served as the deputy director of the Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center at the Atlantic Council and previously served in the Obama administration for eight years and she is the former director for Development and Democracy at the National Security Council.
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Paula Hidalgo-Sanchis

Paula Hidalgo-Sanchis is based in Uganda and manages Pulse Lab Kampala, a Lab of the UN Global Pulse network. Paula has worked as humanitarian and development practitioner for 18 years. She has worked as manager of Innovations, social policy advisor and analyst posted in America, Asiam and Africa. With field experience in over 20 countries, Paula is passionate about promoting innovations for human development. She holds a Ph.D. in Geography and master's level on international assistance, and has a strong motivation to promote the use of big data and artificial intelligence to achieve today’s world challenges.
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Paula Park

Paula Park is a journalist with 25 years of experience who has worked for The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg, as well as publishing articles in the New York Times. She started her career covering development and the arts in East Africa for the BBC World Service and wrote the Oxfam study "Lands of Plenty, Lands of Scarcity: Agricultural Policy and Peasant Farmers in East and Southern Africa.”
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Paula Dupraz-Dobias

Paula Dupraz-Dobias is an award-winning reporter and documentary producer based in Geneva. She has reported on international organizations, business transparency, environment, and development from Switzerland, Peru, and the United States. Her work has been featured in Vice, Al-Jazeera, Quartz, France Télévision, and elsewhere. She was awarded the Prix Nicolas Bouvier 2018 for her in-depth coverage of international organizations in Geneva.
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Paula Fujiwara

Paula is The Union's scientific director and oversees all technical departments and projects of the organization. A medical doctor and a public health specialist, she has served as director of both the departments of HIV and TB.
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Pauline Baker

Dr. Pauline H. Baker is President Emeritus of the Fund for Peace. She serves on its Board of Trustees and is also an independent director on the NDPI Board. Dr. Baker lived in Nigeria for 11 years, taught at the University of Lagos, and served as an election observer for the National Democratic Institute in the last four Nigerian general elections.
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Pauline Rose

Pauline Rose is the director of UNESCO's EFA Global Monitoring Report (GMR) since August 2011. Prior to taking up this post, she was senior policy analyst with the GMR team for three years, leading the research on the themes of governance, marginalization and conflict. Before joining GMR, Pauline was a reader in international education and development at the University of Sussex.
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Pauline Rose

Pauline Rose, Ph.D., is a professor of international education at the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge, and director of the Research for Equitable Access and Learning Centre.
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Pauline Thivillier

Pauline Thivillier is a program delivery monitoring officer at Sightsavers. She has previously worked for UNHCR, Mines Advisory Group and Fair Trials International. She holds two master’s degrees, one on European litigation in Université Panthéon Assas (Paris II) and another on international and European law from the University of Manchester. She is currently based in the United Kingdom.
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Pauline Williams

Dr Pauline Williams is the senior vice president global health R&D in GSK. She has spent over 25 years in drug discovery and development with a focus on clinical pharmacology and translational medicine. Within the GSK-Save the Children Partnership she initiated and led a project to develop a chlorhexidine gel product for prevention of serious infections of the umbilical cord. She also founded the GSK noncommunicable diseases open lab, which provides support to African researchers to understand and address the rising burden of NCDs in sub-Saharan Africa. Williams has led GSK Global Health R&D since 2017, overseeing dedicated teams of scientists and physicians working on innovative treatments for malaria, TB, and kinetoplastid diseases.