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Shameela Soobramoney
Soobramoney has been the chief sustainability officer of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) si
nce 2007. She is responsible for advising the executive committee and board of the JSE Limited on sustainability and the integration into strategy.
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Leila Fourie
With over 25 years of international experience, primarily in financial services, Leila Fourie has
served on multiple boards and held senior roles in banking, capital markets, and payments.
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Precious Moloi-Motsepe
Dr. Precious Moloi-Motsepe is a philanthropist and social entrepreneur, who has steered developme
nt, equality, and education initiatives through the Motsepe Foundation, a family foundation she founded with her husband 22 years ago.
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Building Tomorrow's Agents of Change Across Africa
By the close of the century, sub-Saharan Africa will be the world's most populous region. Growth a
nd prosperity will depend not on natural resources, but on the talent and entrepreneurial energy of the region's young professionals.
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Start-up Nations: Creating Laboratories for Developing Economies
Emerging and frontier markets have eclipsed the advanced economies in GDP share and growth, just a
s the New World surpassed the Old at the end of the 19th century.
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State Minister Yasmin Wohabrebbi: Ethiopia’s Prospects and Priorities for Economic Recovery
COVID-19 Africa Watch talks to State Minister Yasmin Wohabrebbi about the policy response to the p
andemic, the efforts to develop the digital economy, and the G20 Debt Service Suspension Initiative (DSSI).
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MENA Region: New Tactics to Transform Economies and Accelerate Growth
As economic growth and political reforms continue in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) regio
n, many of those countries have been compelled to accelerate structural reforms to diversify their economies away from hydrocarbons, boost the role of the
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Two Washington, D.C. High School Stars Receive Milken Scholars Award
SANTA MONICA, Calif., (June 14, 2021)—The Milken Scholars, a joint initiative of the Milke
n Institute and the Milken Family Foundation, has chosen two talent
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