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Wendy Freeman Carr

Wendy Freeman Carr leads Deloitte’s work in institutional strengthening and capacity development in emerging markets. She is a principal thought leader and architect of Deloitte’s award-winning performance-based capacity development approach. She has over 20 years of experience leading and advising large-scale transformation efforts, in the U.S. and abroad, on how to design and operationalize high-performing organizations using human capital and change management principles.
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Werner Hoyer

Werner Hoyer has been president of the European Investment Bank since 2012. Before that, he served for 24 years as a member of the German Bundestag. During this period, he held the position of minister of state at the Foreign Office on two separate occasions.
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Werner Liepach

Werner Liepach is the director general of the Central and West Asia Department at the Asian Development Bank. He assumed office in February 2018. Mr. Liepach oversees the definition and execution of the departmental strategy and business plan, as well as the day-to-day management of operations of the department. He is responsible to oversee ADB’s regional portfolio, which now stands at $18.6 billion for over 155 projects in seven sector divisions at ADB headquarters and 10 country offices, covering energy; environment, natural resources and agriculture; transport, public management, financial sector, and trade; regional cooperation and operations coordination; social; and urban and water development.
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Werner Schultink

Werner Schultink is associate director in the program division of UNICEF in New York and chief of nutrition. He joined UNICEF in April 1999 and has held a number of senior positions both at headquarters in New York, where he was a senior nutrition adviser, and in the India country office, where he led the child development and nutrition section.
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W. Gyude Moore

W. Gyude Moore is a senior policy fellow at the Center for Global Development. He previously served as Liberia’s minister of public works, deputy chief of staff to former President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, and head of the president’s delivery unit. Moore researches governance, infrastructure financing, and Africa’s response to the changing landscape of external actors.
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Wiebke Koenig

Dr. Wiebke Koenig has been head of the Global Leadership Academy since 2013. Previously she served as head of GIZ’s corporate communications office in Berlin, held responsibility for the liaison office to the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research, and acted as senior advisor for East Asia. Before joining GIZ, she was a lecturer in sociology, focusing on transformation processes in East and Central Asia, economical ethics, comparative sociology, and world system theory. She holds a master’s of science in political science and east asian studies and a Ph.D. in sociology.
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Wilfried Coly

Wilfried Coly is regional data analyst at the International Organization for Migration’s regional office for West and Central Africa. He provides support to IOM’s Missing Migrants Project by compiling data on the deaths and disappearances of migrants in West and Central Africa through primary sources such as media reports, IOM country office, search and rescue operations data, migrant testimonies, civil society reports, and partner agencies among others.
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Will Martin

Will Martin is a senior research fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute and current president of the International Association of Agricultural Economists.
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Will Surman

Will Surman is director of communications for crop protection at CropLife International. He is the global voice for the plant science industry and has worked in communications focused on sustainable agriculture for more 10 years.
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Will Todman

Will Todman is deputy director and a senior fellow in the Middle East Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He is the author of the recent report, “Powering Recovery: Reform, Reconstruction, and Renewables in Conflict-Affected States in the Arab World.”