Panel

India Mr. Banerjee is currently the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2003, he co-founded the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab. Mr. Banerjee is a past president of the Bureau for the Research in the Economic Analysis of Development. His areas of research are development economics and…

Benin Mr. Amoussouga Gero heads the Economic Analysis Unit of the President of the Republic of Benin, current chair of the African Union. He is also the Director of the Graduate School of the Faculty of Economics and Management at the University of Abomey, where he specialises in research on African economic development.

Cuba Ms. Alonso, who received a PH.D in Biological Science in 1979, is a leading Cuban scientist and currently the President of the Cuban Agency of Environment. In that role, she is responsible for the implementation of the country’s environmental policy, environmental management and the performance and projection of Cuban research centres related to environmental…

Ex Officio Ms. Mohammed is the Special Advisor of the Secretary-General on Post-2015 Development Planning.

Co-Chair Prime Minister Cameron has been in office since May 2010 and heads a Conservative / Liberal Democrat Coalition Government. He was elected Leader of the Conservative Party in December 2005 on a mandate to change and modernise his Party. During his time as Leader of the Opposition he promoted social justice and social action,…

Co-Chair Ms. Sirleaf is the first elected female head of state in Africa and has been in office since 16 January 2006. She won a second term in 2011. President Sirleaf was jointly awarded the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize with Leymah Gbowee of Liberia and Tawakel Karman of Yemen (also on the High Level Panel).…

Co-Chair Dr. Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is the sixth President of the Republic of Indonesia, and also the country’s first directly elected President. President Yudhoyono has assumed a number of self-transformation: from student to soldier, soldier to reformist general, four-star general to Cabinet Minister, Minister to Politician, and politician to President. President Yudhoyono has an extensive…