I am the founder of Led By HER, an organization that works on promoting innovation, women's rights and entrepreneurship.

Carlos Santiso has a long career working on improving lives in fragile states and emerging economies in Africa and the Americas by furthering democracy, strengthening governance and fighting corruption. In the past two decades, he has worked in over two dozen countries in various capacities in multilateral development banks, bilateral aid agencies, and policy think tanks. He is the Director for Digital Innovation in Government at the Development Bank of Latin America, based in Colombia. He previously headed the Innovation for Citizen Services Division of the Inter-American Development, which he joined in 2011 to manage the Institutional Capacity of the State Division; as Sector Manager for Governance at the African Development Bank between 2007 and 2011, as governance adviser to the British government aid agency between 2002 and 2007 and as senior operations officer at the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance between 1996 and 2000. He started his career as an adviser at the French Prime Minister’s Office between 1995 and 1996. He is a founding member of the board of adviser of the Centre for Democratic Governance in Burkina Faso. Carlos holds Ph.D. in comparative political economy from Johns Hopkins University (2006), a master in international economic policy from Columbia University (1995) and a master in public policy from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques of Paris (1993). He has written extensively on digital government, democratic governance, development finance and foreign aid.

Innovation, Inclusive Growth, Digital Economy, Global Business

Postdoctoral Research Fellow @LSEEI | Consultant Jobs Group @WorldBank | #PoliticalEconomy #LabourMarkets #Migration

Dr. Andreas Hollstein studied Law and earned his PhD at the University of Bonn. From 1993 until 1995 he worked for the Head of Division at the Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania. After this he worked as a Research Assistant of Wolfgang Lohmann MP and in the CDU/CSU faction in the German Bundestag in the areas of social welfare and the benefits act for asylum seekers. He became Honorary 1st Deputy Mayor of his home town Altena in 1994. He has been Mayor of the City of Altena since 1999.

Research on Arctic business opportunities, sustainability, circular economy and human rights.