LJD Week 2023 | The Role of Data in Enabling and Mobilizing the Private Sector

Axel van Trotsenburg is the World Bank’s Senior Managing Director (SMD), responsible for Development Policy and Partnerships. As SMD, he is focused on mobilizing knowledge, talent, partnerships and communications to enhance the Bank’s impact globally and in the client countries it serves. He directs the World Bank’s core development work captured by the Bank’s Global Practice groups and ensures its integration into operations, with a special focus on climate change, fragility, human capital, and debt sustainability issues. Mr. van Trotsenburg currently also co-leads the Evolution Roadmap aimed at increasing the scale and impact of the World Bank operations and systematically incorporating sustainability, resilience and inclusion into the Bank’s work on poverty reduction and boosting shared prosperity. Additionally, he oversees the Bank’s numerous partnerships, co-chairs the replenishment of the International Development Association, represents the Bank in the G7 and G20 meetings, and leads the Bank’s climate engagement in the context of the annual COP convenings.

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Dr. Hal Varian is the Chief Economist at Google, where he started in 2002 as a consultant and has been involved in many aspects of the company, including auction design, econometric analysis, finance, corporate strategy and public policy. Dr. Varian is also an emeritus professor at the University of California, Berkeley in three departments: business, economics, and information management. He has also taught at MIT, Stanford, Oxford, Michigan and other universities around the world. Dr. Varian has published numerous papers in economic theory, industrial organization, financial economics, econometrics and information economics. He is the author of two major economics textbooks which have been translated into 22 languages, the co-author of a bestselling book on business strategy, Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy, and wrote a monthly column for the New York Times from 2000 to 2007. Dr. Varian is a fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation, the Econometric Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and was Co-Editor of the American Economic Review from 1987-1990.

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Ali Schmidt-Fellner leads the knowledge management efforts at the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth. In this capacity, she manages key think tank relationships, develops cutting-edge research agendas, and builds the Center’s knowledge assets on the future of financial inclusion, the digital economy, and inclusive economic mobility. Prior to joining the Center, Ms. Schmidt-Fellner had worked for the World Bank’s Disruptive Technologies for Development division and the Global Wildlife Program. She has also worked for Andela, where she expanded workforce development programs for software developers across Africa, and has served as a research analyst at the Institute for Business in the Global Context at The Fletcher School. Ms. Schmidt-Fellner currently also serves as a Millennium Fellow at the Atlantic Council.

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Federico Galizia is IFC’s Vice President for Risk and Finance. Within this role, he provides overall direction for IFC's Risk and Finance functions, oversees the Corporation’s Controller, Investment & Credit Risk; Corporate Risk Management; and Special Operations functions, and manages its enterprise risk management frameworks and processes. He has more than twenty-five years of experience in international organizations and financial institutions, most recently as Chief Risk Officer of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). Prior to joining the IDB, Mr. Galizia had served as Head of Risk and Portfolio Management and Chairman of the Investment and Risk Committee at the European Investment Fund in Luxembourg, Deputy Division Chief at the International Monetary Fund, and Adviser to the President of the European Investment Bank in Luxembourg, among other roles. Starting his career with McKinsey, Mr. Galizia has attained extensive experiences in private sector investments, across multiple industries and geographies.

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Emily Kreps is the Global Head of ESG and Sustainable Finance for Deutsche Bank’s investment banking business. She focuses on ESG strategy, content generation, internal stakeholder management and client engagement, in partnership with Deutsche Bank’s client coverage teams. She is a member of the bank’s Global Sustainability Strategy Steering Committee which is responsible for setting and driving sustainability for the Group. Prior to joining Deutsche Bank, Ms. Kreps led the Global Capital Markets team at CDP (formerly the Carbon Disclosure Project), a leading environmental non-profit defining key aspects of the global disclosure system for investors, companies, cities, states, and regions. Ms. Kreps brings more than a decade of experience as an investment banker. She is an expert in ESG disclosure, taxonomies, and the linkage to capital markets impact. She serves as the executive sponsor of Deutsche Bank’s Women on Wall Street employee resource group.

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Indermit Gill is Chief Economist of the World Bank Group and Senior Vice President for Development Economics. Mr. Gill, an Indian national, brings to the role a broad combination of leadership, expertise, and practical experience working with governments on macroeconomic imbalances, growth, poverty, institutions, conflict, and climate change. He is widely regarded for his contributions to development economics. He spearheaded the influential 2009 World Development Report on economic geography. His pioneering work includes introducing the concept of the “middle-income trap” to describe how countries stagnate after reaching a certain level of income. He has published extensively on key policy issues facing developing countries—among other things, sovereign debt vulnerabilities, green growth and natural-resource wealth, labor markets, and poverty and inequality.

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