African Younth Forum 2014 July 31 2014

Dear Friends,

The World Bank Group-IMF Young African Society (YAS) is excited to welcome you to the 1st African Youth Forum on July 31st, 2014. This year’s theme, “Equipping and Inspiring the next generation for productive Jobs” was inspired by a report published by the World Bank Group in January 2014, on Youth employment in Sub-saharan . The WBG-IMF YAS has decided to organize its first African Youth Forum 2014, to establish a platform where youth can actively participate in discussing, implementing and evaluating the development agenda in Africa.

Africa must move beyond commodities led growth to focus on human capital development internally. We believe that inclusive growth will only be achieved by equipping young people with the skills needed for a vibrant economy. The necessary parts to move Africa’s young population forward are education, entrepreneurship and employment, health and good governance among others on the continent.

The African Youth Forum 2014 will feature external and internal participants discussing Youth as an important component of the Africa development agenda and specifically addressing the thematic areas as identified by the UN.

Our goal is to equip every attendee with new tools to achieve a positive vision for Africa. We invite you to start the process now by registering today and interacting with our online community.

Please feel free to contact us to discuss issues pertinent to Africa’s development at: [email protected]

We look forward to welcoming you to the World Bank Group!

Regards,

Yvonne Catherine Kirabo and Elikia Kamga Nenkam WBG-IMF Young African Society (YAS) Co-Presidents and Founders 2014 AFRICAN YOUTH FORUM • WORLD BANK GROUP

Thursday, July 31 | 8:00am–6:00pm

08:00–09:00am Atrium, Main Complex Front Lobby Check-in / Registration/ Light Breakfast 8:00–5:00pm MC Atrium Development Expo 09:00–09:30am Preston Auditorium Welcome Ceremony – Makhtar Diop, Vice President, World Bank

– Elikia Kamga/Yvonne Kirabo Co-Presidents of the YAS

09:30–11:05am Preston Auditorium Human Capital: The Fundamental Role of Education and Skills: Addressing the Challenge of Youth Education Moderator: Bai Kamara, Program Manager, Africa Region, International Youth Foundation Panelists: – H.E. Joseph Bienvenu Charles Foe-Atangana, The Ambassador of the Republic of Cameroon to the United States of America in Washington DC

– Claudia Maria Costin, Senior Director for Education, WBG | 1

– John Nassari, Yali Fellow MP for Republic of Tanzania & Deputy Shadow Minister for Education and Vocational Training

– Olubanke King-Akerele, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Liberia

– Yaye Seynabou Sakho, Adviser, MD & COO, WBG

– Nina Oduro, African Development Jobs

11:10–11:30am Preston Auditorium Presentation Soft Launch of the WBG-IMF staff Young African Society

– Kelley Page, Global Strategy Consultant &Co-Chair of Africa 2.0 DC Chapter

– Elikia Kamga/Yvonne Kirabo Co-Presidents of the YAS

– Beldina Auma, Chair of the African Society

11:30–11:45am Coffee Break 11:45am–1:15pm Preston Auditorium Entrepreneurship and Employment in Africa What are the constraints for entrepreneurs in Africa? Addressing the challenges of youth employment and entrepreneurship Opening remarks – Anabel Gonzalez, Senior Director for Trade and Competitiveness, WBG Moderator: Deon P. Filmer, Lead Economist, World Bank Panelists: – Erick Zeballos, Deputy Director, ILO Washington Office

– Kolade Adeyemo, Co-Founder and Chief Marketing Officer of OXOSI

– Sabeen Malik, Senior Policy Advisor, U.S. Department of State

– Willy-Conrad Asseko Allogo, YALI Fellow, Deputy Secretary General, Spokesman for the Association for Independent Action Youth in Gabon and General Manager of Les Transports Citadins

1:15–1:20pm Preston Auditorium Closing Remarks for Entrepreneurship and Employment Panel – Mamadou Toure, President, Africa 2.0 1:20–2:15pm MC Atrium Lunch with Development Expo 2 | 2:15–2:30pm Preston Auditorium Opening Remarks for Plenary 4 – Robert P. Jackson Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary For African Affairs 2:30–4:00pm Preston Auditorium Good Governance Need for More Transparent and Youth Inclusive Governance Policies and Institutions in SSA Moderator: Rachel Nyaradzo Adams; Associate Director for Africa, Office of International Affairs Panelists: – H.E Oliver Wonekha, The Ambassador of the Republic of Uganda to the United States of America, Washington DC

– Robert Hunja, Director of Governance Practice, WBG

– Pape Samb, CEO, Global Youth Innovation Network (GYIN)

– Serge Kapto, E-Governance Eexpert, UNDP,

– Anna Alice Adhiambo Musandu, YALI Fellow, Public Affairs and Communications Officer in the Parliament of

– Stefania Piffaneli, Deputy Director, UNIC

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4:00–4:15pm Preston Auditorium Afternoon Keynote Speaker – H.E Daniel Kablan Ducan, Prime Minister of Ivory Coast (TBC)

4:15–4:30pm Preston Auditorium Yali Fellows Conversation with Makhtar Diop, Vice President, World Bank (TBC) – 5 Yali Fellows Makhtar Diop, Vice President, World Bank (TBC)

Concurrent Panel Sessions | 4:30–5:45pm Preston Auditorium Investing in Youth Health: The Key to Raising a Competitive Next Generation Moderator: Christine Sow, Executive Director of the Global Health Council Panelists: – Hon. Dr. Miatta Kargbo, Minister of Health and Sanitation of Sierra Leone (TBC)

– Hassanatu Blake, Focal point

– Lola Walker, Senior Technical Advisor–Integrated Children Health and Social Services, USAID Health

– Prateek Awashi, UNFPA

– Kombo Ehouman Fabienne N’Guessan, YALI Fellow, Health Specialist | 3

– Akiko Maeda, Lead Health Specialist, World Bank (TBC)

– Dena Ringold, Lead Economist, World Bank Entrepreneurship and Innovation: Project Showcase Moderator: Aleem Walji, Senior Advisor at WBI, Former Director Panelists: – Paul Breloff, Managing Director of Accion Venture Lab

– Tsegahiwot Belachew, Ashoka’s Changemakers’ Global Digital Media Strategist

– Gloria Ndindir Mangoni, YALI fellow, Assistant Teacher with Focus on Urban Planning and Information Systems

– Sophia Muradyan, Senior Incubation Specialist at infoDev

– Delores McLaughlin, Senior Policy Advisor Economic Security Plan International

5.45–6:00pm Preston Auditorium Closing Remarks – Jin Yong Cai, Executive Vice President and CEO of IFC

6:00–7:00pm MC Atrium Happy Hour Networking Event Schedule is subject to change. YOUTH FORUM 2014 SPEAKERS BIOGRAPHIES

JIN-YONG CAI Is Executive Vice President and CEO of IFC, a member of the World Bank Group and the largest global development institution focused on private sector development and the fight against poverty. Cai, a Chinese national, joined IFC on October 1, 2012. He has extensive experience in private sector development in emerging markets across the globe. He also has deep expertise in a variety of financial products and industries—and a record of success managing highly complex business transactions, with clients in developed and developing markets alike. Throughout his career, he has been recognized for his role in major transactions in financing, restructuring, and mergers and acquisitions.

Before joining IFC, Cai worked in the financial services industry for 20 years. That included 12 years with Goldman Sachs Group, where he was part of Goldman Sachs’ global leadership team and its top executive in China. Before that, he held senior positions in Morgan Stanley’s investment banking division. During his time at Morgan Stanley, he was seconded to the China International Capital Corporation at the inception of what has since become one of the country’s largest investment banks.

Cai, who began his professional career in the World Bank Group in 1990, has a Ph.D. 4 | in economics from Boston University and a Bachelor of Science degree from Peking University.

MAKHTAR DIOP is the World Bank’s Vice President for the Africa Region. He has been in the position since May 6, 2012. Before taking up this position, he was the World Bank Country Director for between January 2009 and April 2012, and previously held the positions of Director of Strategy and Operations of the Latin America and the Caribbean Region, and Sector Director for Finance, Private Sector and Infrastructure in the same region.

Between 2002 and 2005 Mr. Diop was the Bank’s Country Director for Kenya, , and . Before joining the World Bank, Mr. Diop worked at the International Monetary Fund, and served as Minister of Economy and Finance in . Follow Makhtar on Twitter: @Diop_WB

CLAUDIA MARIA COSTIN, Senior Director for Education, WBG She has worked as a trade policy-maker and she has extensive experience at the national and international levels in the formulation and advocacy of trade and investment policies, negotiation and implementation of agreements, building of trade- related institutional capacity, enhancing competitiveness, and promoting foreign investment. She has lectured in over 30 countries and published extensively on trade and investment issues. She has a degree in Law, University of Costa Rica and LLM, Georgetown University.

ROBERT HUNJA, Director of Governance Practice, WBG Mr. Hunja, a Kenyan national and lawyer by training, has been working in the procurement arena for over 17 years. He has worked at the United Nations Commission

JULY 31 • WASHIINGTON, D.C. 2014 AFRICAN YOUTH FORUM • WORLD BANK GROUP on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) during the development of the UNCITRAL Model Law on Procurement of Goods, Works and Services. He joined the World Bank in 1995 where he worked in the Legal Department before being appointed Manager of the Bank’s Procurement Policy group. In 2006, Mr. Hunja went on external service from the World Bank and joined the Government of Kenya where he helped establish the Public Procurement Oversight Authority and was its first Director General. He returned to the World Bank in September 2008 and was an Operations Advisor in the Africa Region, before taking up a position as a Lead Governance Specialist in the World Bank Institute(WBI), and is currently the Director of Governance Practice with the World Bank Group.

OLUBANKE KING-AKERELE, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Liberia Olubanke King Akerele is a Liberian politician and diplomat who served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs in the cabinet of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf from 2007 to 2010. She is the granddaughter of Liberia’s 17th president, Charles D. B. King.

Akerele studied at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria and graduated from Brandeis University in Massachusetts, United States with a B.A. in economics. She earned her first M.A. from Northeastern University in manpower economics, then a second M.A. from Columbia University in economics of education. Akerele also completed her first year at the University of Liberia Louis Arthur Grimes School of Law. She later served for over 20 years at the United Nations.

ANABEL GONZALEZ, Senior Director for Trade and Competitiveness, WBG Anabel Gonzalez will become Senior Director of The World Bank Group Global Practice on Trade and Competitiveness on July 1st, 2014. | 5 Previously, she served as Costa Rica’s Minister of Foreign Trade and the President’s principal advisor, negotiator and spokesperson on trade and investment policy. During her tenure, Anabel led Costa Rica’s efforts to join the OECD, negotiated, approved and implemented six free trade agreements–including with China and the European Union– and implemented policies that significantly enhanced the investment climate in Costa Rica and contributed to the attraction of over 140 investment projects. She also had a lead role in Costa Rica’s Competitiveness and Innovation Council.

During her more than 15 years of service with the Ministry of Foreign Trade, she has held various positions including Director General for International Trade Negotiations and Vice-Minister of Foreign Trade. She has also served as the Director to the Agriculture and Commodities Division of the World Trade Organization, where she contributed to the Doha Round, providing advice and support to senior management and member countries in matters relating to agriculture negotiations. She also worked at the Inter-American Development Bank as Senior International Consultant on Trade and Investment, leading projects related to implementation of trade agreements, regional economic integration, Aid for Trade, and investment issues. Other positions she has held include Director General of the Costa Rican Investment Promotion Board.

For the past two years, Anabel has served as Chair of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Trade and Foreign Direct Investment. As from September 2014, she will lead the Global Agenda Council on Competitiveness.

H.E. JOSEPH BIENVENU CHARLES FOE-ATANGANA, The Ambassador of the Republic of Cameroon to the United States of America in Washington DC Ambassador FOE-ATANGANA Bienvenu Joseph Charles is a senior career diplomat with rank of Minister Plenipotentiary. He was born on January 6, 1952 in Edea, Cameroon, where his parents lived and worked at the time, though originally from Yaoundé in the then Centre-South Province of Cameroon. He attended primary school at Saint Joseph School, Mvolye from1958–1964; secondary school at the Saint Paul Junior Seminary in Mbalmayo, and completed at Saint Theresa Seminary in Yaoundé, Cameroon.

On obtaining his Baccalaureat certificate (equivalent to the GCE “A” Level) in 1972, he proceeded to the University of Yaoundé where he graduated three years later with a Bachelor of Arts degree in History-English and a post-graduate diploma in 1976. Foe- Atangana Bienvenu J.C. pursued his post-graduate education at the International Relations Institute of Cameroon (IRIC) where he graduated in 1978 with a Doctorat de 3eme Cycle. He was initially recruited by the Ministry of Foreign affairs as a contract worker in 1976, but on graduation from IRIC he was absorbed into the Cameroon Civil Service as a career diplomat.

Joseph Charles Bienvenu Foe-Atangana served at the Cameroon Embassy in Kinshasa, Zaire, from 1981 to 1986 as Second Secretary, First Secretary, and Second Counselor, successively. In 1997, he was appointed Director in charge of Protocol at the Douala Office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Six years later, he was appointed Consul of Cameroon in Calabar, Nigeria with jurisdiction over some 10 states of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

He was appointed Ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of the Republic of Cameroon to the United States of America by the Cameroonian Head of State, His Excellency President Paul Biya, on March 11. 2008.

Ambassador Foe-Atangana is a practicing Roman Catholic Christian. He has attended numerous seminars and international conferences. He is the holder of several awards and decorations, both national and international; notably, Knight of the Cameroon Order of Merit; Member of the Niger Order of the Federal Republic of Nigeria; Knight of the Cross 6 | of King Leopold (Belgium); Officer of the National Order of Merit (). Ambassador Foe-Atangana is married and has eight children. His hobbies include reading, travelling, and sports.

ROBERT P. JACKSON, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary For African Affairs Ambassador Robert P. Jackson became Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for African Affairs in October 2013. He most recently served as Ambassador to the Republic of Cameroon.

Mr. Jackson’s previous assignments include postings as Deputy Chief of Mission and Chargé d’Affaires, a.i., Rabat, Morocco; Deputy Chief of Mission and Chargé d’Affaires, a.i., , Senegal; Director of the Office for the Promotion of Human Rights and Democracy at the Department of State in Washington, D.C.; Political/Economic Counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire; Political-Military Officer in Lisbon, Portugal; Coordinator of the Entry-Level Officer Training Program (A-100) and Deputy Director of the Orientation Division at the Foreign Service Institute; Country Officer for Zimbabwe and Botswana; Chief of the Political Section in Harare, Zimbabwe; Country Officer for Nigeria; Political/Economic Officer in Bujumbura, Burundi; and Consular/Economic Officer in Montreal, Canada. Mr. Jackson has been a Member of the Senior Foreign Service since December 2003. In 2006, he received the James A. Baker III–C. Howard Wilkins, Jr., Award for Outstanding Deputy Chief of Mission. He has also received three individual superior honor awards and two individual meritorious honor awards.

Prior to joining the Foreign Service in 1982, Mr. Jackson taught French and English as a foreign language at the Institut Montana in Zugerberg, Switzerland. He had previously taught English and American Civilization at the University of Clermont in Clermont- Ferrand, France. Mr. Jackson earned his M.S. in National Resource Strategy from National Defense University, his M.A. in International Affairs from the George Washington University

JULY 31 • WASHIINGTON, D.C. 2014 AFRICAN YOUTH FORUM • WORLD BANK GROUP in Washington, D.C., and his B.A. in Government and Legal Studies from Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. Ambassador Jackson speaks French and Portuguese.

BELDINA AUMA, Chair of the World Bank Group-IMF African Society Beldina Auma is the current Chair of the World Bank Group-IMF African Society, a 1,500 member organization of Africans working in the World Bank and IMF. As Chair of the Society, she has spearheaded roundtable discussions on salient issues on Africa, engaging major constituencies such as the African American Unity Caucus, Congressional Black Caucus, and African Diplomatic Corps, among others.

Ms. Auma is also Senior Communications Officer for the World Bank’s Africa Region advising Africa region vice presidency on various communications components of the region’s work, including: country, sector, outreach, strategic linkages and media. She is currently focusing on implementation of the IDA 17 communications program for the African region and identifying how IDA has complemented the MDGs. Recently she was implementing a communications program for the Bank’s Africa Diaspora Program, which included strategic linkages with key diaspora groups, and working closely with the African Union. She has worked on country communications programs for Angola, Botswana, Comoros, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. She has also done a cross section of sector communications work.

Ms. Auma has made significant contributions to the international communications and development programs, especially in Africa. She has held visible positions of responsibility, including Executive Director of Communications for Development International, where she was instrumental in expanding the organization’s operations in Africa by launching regional offices on the continent and collaborating with UNDP, UNESCO, UNAIDS,| 7 UNIFEM, UNECA, UNFPA and various United Nations Agencies in developing successful media associations in Africa, and other programs.

In 2000, Ms. Auma chaired a United Nations Committee which evaluated the Communications Component of the 5-year benchmark of the Platform for Action of the Beijing World Conference on Women, which she presented to the United Nations Plenary. She also headed UNIFEM’S Communications Program from 1996 to 1998. She has had a long career working with international NGOs, media organizations, and the private sector.

Ms. Auma holds an MA in Communications from Howard University, and a BSc in Journalism from the University of Tennessee, Knoxvelle

ELIKA KAMGA NENKAM, Co–President, World Bank Group–IMF Staff Young African Society Elikia Kamga Nenkam is the Co-President and Founder of the WBG-IMF Young African Society. She also worked at the World Bank Group as Junior Professional Associate (JPA) in the Transport and ICT global practice ore precisely in the Transport unit of the Africa region. Ms. Kamga Nenkam current position in the transport unit of the Africa region gives her field knowledge of issues that Young African’s are currently experiencing in countries such as Tanzania, Senegal, Burkina Faso and other sub-saharan African countries. This experience fostered her desire to continue supporting Young Africans by founding the WBG-IMF Young African Society.

Ms. Kamga Nenkam professional and educational background s spans the diverse discipline of Project Management, operations, communication strategy and financial analysis/markets.. Prior to the World Bank, Ms. Kamga Nenkam was working for one of the Top asset management company in Europe, Amundi Asset Management in Paris, where she assisted product specialist and fund manager in the selection of global picking, raw materials stocks and Luxury stocks. Prior to this, she worked at Natixis investment securities in Paris were she supported equity research analysts in the field of agribusinesses, beverages and consumer staples.

Ms. Kamga Nenkam holds an MSc in Risk and Investment Management and a Master in Management from EDHEC business school.

She is the author of a research paper on Risk model and Foreign Direct Investment in Third World Countries She is a national of Cameroon and spent her childhood in Douala, Cameroon. Her passion for development and for entrepreneurs empowerment led Elikia Kamga Nenkam to Found and serve as president for 2years of the Micro Drilling Project renamed later Develop which objective is to foster development in sub-Saharan Africa through micro-lending. Elikia was also involved in Scola Africa an NGO that provided school supplies to remote villages in Bobo-diolasso, Burkina Faso

YVONNE CATHERINE KIRABO, Co-President and Founder, World Bank Group–IMF Staff Young African Society Yvonne Catherine Kirabo is the Co-President and Founder of the WBG-IMF Young African Society. She also works at the World Bank Group as a Business Management Officer in the Information Technology Finance Line of Business. She started as a Junior Professional Associate (JPA) at the World Bank Group working for the Corporate Solutions office in the Information and Technology Solutions vice Presidency in January 2012. She served as the organizational management chair of the JPA Organizing Committee and Lead Chair on the Youth Summit Organizing Committee 2013.

Ms. Kirabo’s professional and educational backgrounds span the diverse disciplines 8 | of Project Management, Education, Business Analysis and IT. She mostly worked as a Database Systems lecturer at London School of Commerce, interned at the United Nations in New York City as a researcher and analyst on technology strategies for development in DPKO in addition to working as a strategy consultant for John Snow Inc.

Ms. Kirabo holds a BSc in Computer Engineering and Networks from Kharkov National University, Ukraine and an MSc in Information Science from University of East London, United Kingdom. She has been published in the Guardian and has received several awards including the World Bank’s Spot Award.

She is a national of Uganda and spent her childhood in Kampala, Uganda and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Experience and demographic identity have driven Ms. Kirabo’s passion for Youth inclusion and development. She has been involved in several platforms including the Arab Youth Platform, established in 2013 in Saint-Marsel, France for promoting Youth inclusion and participation.

ANNA ALICE ADHIAMBO MUSANDU, YALI Fellow, Public Affairs and Communications Officer in the Parliament of Kenya Anna Musandu is a communications specialist working in the Parliament of Kenya where she serves as a Public Affairs and Communications Officer. She has over 10 years’ experience working in the national legislature. Anna is working on various communication strategies for the Parliament of Kenya that includes developing and improving various platforms for public participation, outreach, and engagement.

She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications Science from the University of South Africa and a master of arts in Mass Communications from the University of Leicester, United Kingdom. Through the Washington Fellowship, Anna seeks to gain knowledge and skills that she will use to facilitate her work in promoting gainful relations between Parliament and the public. She also seeks to establish programs

JULY 31 • WASHIINGTON, D.C. 2014 AFRICAN YOUTH FORUM • WORLD BANK GROUP to help raise youth and women to public leadership positions through training and networking. Furthermore, she aims to use innovative means to package and disseminate public information to aid effective public participation in governance issues as provided for in the Constitution of Kenya.

GLORIA NDINDIR MANGONI, YALI fellow, Assistant Teacher with Focus on Urban Planning and Information Systems Gloria Ndindir Mangoni is an Assistant Teacher at the University of Kinshasa where she is in charge of assignments related to urban planning and geographic information systems. She joined the Prime Minister’s office in 2012 as a Research Analyst and is responsible for managing, mapping, and disseminating agricultural data. Upon returning from the Washington Fellowship, she plans to implement an integrated information system web site to better inform the decision making process in the agricultural and urban planning sector

JOHN NASSARI, YALI Fellow. The Youngest Member of Parliament (MP) in Tanzania representing Arumeru East Constituency, where represent over 300,000 people in the National Assembly. My responsibilities as a MP include discussing bills and passing laws for good governance, as well as giving legislative sanction to taxation and acquisition of means to carrying out the work of the government. I also scrutinize government policies and administration, including proposals for expenditures and to debate major issues of the day. At the district level, I oversee the district’s annual budget, and monitor the implementation of any development projects undertaken by both central government and local government within my area of representation. At university I studied Sociology with major in Policy, Planning and Administration. At school I gained valuable skills in management, monitoring and | 9 evaluation and both project planning and implementation that I have been able to apply to my current role as a Member of Parliament.

WILLY-CONRAD ASSEKO ALLOGO, YALI Fellow, Deputy Secretary General, Spokesman for the Association for Independent Action Youth in Gabon and General Manager of Les Transports Citadins After he graduated from the university applied science of Dortmund (Germany) in 2010 as a fellow from the Gabonese Government, Willy decided to go back home to find a Job and help his country to develop. Since he couldn’t find a job, he signed a contract with a legal firm and he helped them focus efficiently on their foreign clients’ issues by taking care of those client’s needs. Knowing Gabon as a land of opportunities for Foreign People, he decided to start his own business against his parents will in October 2010. From day to day, he worked to become a one-stop-shop logistic expert and a role model for Gabonese young people. He’s passionate about motivating young people to turn their sportily energy into projects. In this sense, he co-founded the young Gabonese entrepreneurs association (APJA) and was in Team that fundraised over 1 million USD at the African Development Bank (AFBD) to set up the first Gabonese business incubator in Partnership with the Gabonese Government. As a Basketball Fan and former national player, he founded the Basketball Academy Club (BAC) which aims to use Sport and Education to develop the next generation of African Leaders. With local Authorities contribution and private sector

KOMBO EHOUMAN FABIENNE N’GUESSAN, YALI Fellow, Health Specialist Kombo Fabienne N’guessan has two years of experience working in public administration. In 2012, she served as an intern at the Ministry of Family, Women, and Children Affairs and in 2013 she transferred to the Cabinet of the Minister of Health and the Fight against AIDS as a Research officer. She is also a member of the Ministry’s technical committee for the implementation of universal health coverage in Cote d’Ivoire. She has been active in the humanitarian and social development sector where she has volunteered in a literacy centre for children in India, elaborated a pilot project on conservation agriculture as a source of revenue for women in rural areas of Kenya, and conducted a study on women traders in the informal sector of Uganda.

Ms. N’Guessan holds a bachelor’s degree in Anthropology from the University of Waterloo in Canada and a master’s in Development Studies at the University of Kwazulu Natal, in Durban, South Africa. After she returns from the Washington Fellowship Program, she intends to implement a project with other Fellows to fight against child mortality and promoting the improvement of maternal health. World into solutions, and is passionate about youth and women’s empowerment.

AKIKO MAEDA, Lead Health Specialist, World Bank Akiko Maeda is a World Bank health economist with 20 years of experience in development, specializing in health systems reform, with special focus on health insurance and health financing reforms. She was the Health Sector Manager in the Middle East and North Africa Region of the World Bank. Dr. Maeda has a Ph.D. in Health Economics from Johns Hopkins School of Public Health

ALEEM WALJI, Senior Advisor at WBI, Former Director Aleem Walji is the Senior Advisor at World Bank’s Leadership, Learning & Innovation unit. He oversees Open Government, Transparency and Accountability initiatives with particular interest in leveraging technology to increase social accountability and improve service 10 | delivery. Aleem also serves on the Global Advisory Council on the Future of Government at the World Economic Forum. Prior to joining WBG, Aleem served as a Head of Global Development Initiatives at Google.org, with a focus on eastern Africa. Aleem was also the first CEO of the Aga Khan Foundation in Syria. He is a graduate of Emory University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He completed his bachelor’s degree in Near Eastern Studies and Anthropology and his master’s degree in International Development and Regional Planning.

BAI KAMARA, Program Manager, Africa Region, International Youth Foundation Ms. Baї Kamara is a Program Manager in the Africa region at the International Youth Foundation (IYF). Her work focuses on positive youth development, employability programming, and capacity building. Before joining IYF, Baї held various positions at USAID and at the Multicultural AIDS Coalition working in the areas of education and HIV/ AIDS. Baї holds a Master of Arts degree in Sustainable International Development from The Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University and a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations with a minor in Africana Studies from Wellesley College.

CHRISTINE SOW, Executive Director of the Global Health Council Dr. Christine Sow is an internationally-recognized advocate for global health, with more than 20 years of US and international leadership experience, especially in improving women’s and girls’ quality of life in resource-poor settings. Trained as a demographer and holder of a Ph.D. in epidemiology, Dr. Sow has led many initiatives to strengthen health systems and increase access to life-saving drugs and facilities. Previously, Dr. Sow served as Vice President of International Programs at Plan International USA, where she oversaw the nonprofit organization’s division in charge of institutional fundraising and technical support of major programs. In that role she also participated as a delegate to the World Bank’s Civil Society Consultative Group for Health, Nutrition and Population.

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From 2008–2011, Dr. Sow served as Chief of Child Survival at UNICEF/Mali, and from 2003–2008 as the Health Team Leader and Senior Public Health Advisor for USAID/ Mali. Throughout her time in Mali, Dr. Sow provided technical assistance to national policy development within the health sector, specifically focusing on scaling-up community health strategies. She served as vice-chair of the Malian National Malaria Control Program’s oversight committee and supervised UNICEF’s contributions to the implementation of the International Health Partnership Compact in Mali. Dr. Sow also has served as the Country Coordinating Mechanism Chair for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria in Mali; Chief of Party and Cote d’Ivoire Country Director for Family Health International; and Senior Technical Officer for Evaluation, Surveillance and Epidemiological Research for Family Health International in Arlington, Virginia.

Drawing upon her extensive experience in the public health field and partnership development, Dr. Sow has assumed a variety of leadership and advocacy roles, working with key international health actors at both the global and national levels. Dr. Sow possesses expertise in HIV/AIDS, maternal and child health programs, and advocacy, strategy development, oversight and budgetary management. Dr. Sow received her Master of Public Health and Master of Arts from the University of Michigan and her PhD from Tulane University. She is bilingual in English and French.

DENA RINGOLD, Lead Economist, World Bank Dena Ringold is a Lead Economist in the Social Protection and Labor Team of the World Bank’s Africa Region where she leads work on youth employment and social safety nets. Prior to joining the Africa Region, Dena was a core team member of the World Development Report 2013: Jobs, and she previously worked in the Office of the Chief Economist for Human Development. Dena began her career at the World Bank in the Europe and Central Asia Region, where she focused on social protection and local service | 11 delivery in Central and Southeastern Europe. She initiated the Bank’s first qualitative and quantitative studies of the Roma minority and helped to set up the Roma Education Fund. She has also worked on social protection in Latin America. In 2005, Dena was an Ian Axford Fellow in public policy based at the Ministry of Maori Development in Wellington, New Zealand. She holds an MSc in Economics and Government from the London School of Economics and a BA in History and Political Science from Swarthmore College.

DEON P. FILMER, Lead Economist, World Bank Deon Filmer is a Lead Economist at the World Bank. He works on issues of youth employment and skills, service delivery and impact evaluation of policies and programs to improve human development outcomes, with research spanning the areas of education, health, social protection, and poverty and inequality. His publications include studies of the impact of demand-side programs on schooling outcomes; the roles of poverty, gender, orphanhood, and disability in explaining education inequalities; the determinants of effective service delivery and the evaluation of interventions aimed at improving it; the determinants of fertility behavior; and on trends in adult mortality around the world.

He has recently co-authored books on Making Schools Work: New Evidence from Accountability Reforms and Youth Employment in Sub-Saharan Africa, and was a core team member of the World Development Reports in 1995 Workers in an Integrating World and 2004 Making Services Work for Poor People, and a contributor to the 2007 report on Development and the Next Generation, He holds a PhD and MA from Brown University and a BA from Tufts University.

ERICK ZEBALLOS, Deputy Director, ILO Washington Office Erick J. Zeballos is Deputy Director at the International Labour Organization (ILO) in Washington DC. He joined the ILO in 2008 as Senior Specialist in Food, Drink and Tobacco industries, at the Sectoral Activities Department in Geneva. Prior to joining the ILO he was Adviser on trade and poverty policies at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in Washington, D.C. From 2000 to 2005 he served as Policy Adviser in private sector, economic development and rural livelihoods to the U.K. Department for International Development (DFID) in Latin America (Bolivia, Peru, Brazil, and Nicaragua) and West Asia (Afghanistan and Pakistan). He also served as Adviser on Rural Development and Gender Affairs to the Ministry of Sustainable Development in Bolivia. He has large policy making and strategic planning experience in the areas of poverty reduction, labour markets, trade & competitiveness, private sector and rural development. He is an Engineer with a MSc degree in Agricultural Sciences and Post Graduate studies in Rural and Human Development, as well as Executive Education studies in Strategic Management and Trade Negotiations at Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Wharton School (University of Pennsylvania), and the University College of London.

HASSANATU BLAKE, Focal Point Founder, Hassanatu Blake is the founder of the Focal Point an organization with the mission to educate and empower the world’s youth to address social issues and create social change. Since 2010, Focal Point Global has implemented youth projects which have reached nearly 50 youths from underserved communities in the US, Cameroon and Namibia.

MAMADOU TOURE, President, Africa 2.0 Mr. Mamadou Toure is a Managing Director and Sales & Project Finance Leader with GE Africa, and before this he served with the World Bank Group as an Investment Officer at the International Finance Corporation. Prior to this, he was on the Investment Banking Team with the Fortis Group in Paris, where he spearheaded leading-edge projects in a 12 | variety of industry sectors across Africa. Before this, he worked as an audit consultant with KPMG in France. He is also the Founder and Chairman of the Africa2.0 Foundation, a leading NGO and global advocacy group dedicated to developing and advancing a new vision and agenda for the next generation of young leaders in Africa and the Diaspora. As a testament to Mr. Toure’s leadership on the Africa 2.0 agenda, his initiatives have been endorsed and supported by Mo Ibrahim, Aliko Dangote, The Reverend Jesse Jackson and the Chairperson of the African Union Commission.

KOLADE ADEYEMO, Co-Founder and Chief Marketing Officer of OXOSI Kolade Adeyemo, who has gone by the title of “innovative marketer”(a term coined by his colleagues) is both the Co-Founder and Chief Marketing Officer of OXOSI, the first social commerce application to allow members to discover new, energetic, unique, rapidly growing, high quality, and heavy in-demand Pan-African fashion, art and design products. Kolade has developed quite the impressive reputation for himself in the Pan-African fashion, art and design community, as he has been dubbed one of the most influential brand managers in Pan-African consumer products industry by Applause Africa. But, unlike most, Kolade holds both a strong educational background and keen eye, as recognized in his vast scholarly accomplishments. For starters, he began college at the age of 16 where he holds a Master’s Degree in Social Sciences, and an undergraduate degree in Sociology and Africana Studies from Binghamton University. Prior to the much-anticipated launch of OXOSI, which he founded with Akin Adebowale, Kolade was the Business Director at Base Official, where he headed up organizational structure, business development, and sponsorship procurement and advised on overall strategy for several consumer, luxury and specialty retails brands. He is also Chairperson for Kairos Africa where he mentors budding African entrepreneurs on how to build sustainable and recognizable global brands.

NINA ODURO, African Development Jobs Nina Oduro is a consultant specializing in African diaspora, international development,

JULY 31 • WASHIINGTON, D.C. 2014 AFRICAN YOUTH FORUM • WORLD BANK GROUP youth and education. She is the founder and editor of AfricanDevJobs.com, a platform for Africa-based development job opportunities and career advice with a special focus on highlighting the contributions of Africans and the African diaspora in the field. She is also a Global Contributor for BlackEnterprise.com.

A youth advocate, Nina has worked as an education advisor, trainer, and facilitator for programs and initiatives aimed at positive youth development in the US and Africa. She is currently a Catalyst for the International Labour Organization’s Global Working Group on Decent Work for Youth program and was honored as the DAWNer of the Year for 2013 by members of the Diaspora African Women’s Network (DAWN). She received a Master’s degree in African-American Studies from Columbia University and an undergraduate degree in Political and Social Thought from the University of Virginia. Nina is on Twitter at @NinaBasiwa.

PAPE SAMB, CEO, Global Youth Innovation Network (GYIN) Pape Samb is a social entrepreneur specialized in international development. He has almost 20 years of experience in program and resource development, fundraising, partnership building, entrepreneurship, strategic planning, training and facilitation, global leadership, content management and public speaking. He is a passionate individual who focuses his energy on educating people about entrepreneurship and leadership and empowering women and youth around the world, helping them become self-sufficient and connecting them with resources to achieve their goals.

A driving force and empowering ‘agent of change’ for youth globally, he co-founded and serves as Chairman of the Global Youth Innovative Network (GYIN), a youth-run and led network of over 5,000 young leaders entrepreneurs, innovators and farmers in almost 100 countries. | 13

Pape is President of Exeleadmen International Consulting, a firm which focuses on providing leaders and entrepreneurs with the knowledge, tools and network to create economic value by way of creating societal value and enabling a strong entrepreneurship ecosystem for youth, women and underprivileged communities. He serves as Adjunct Professor of American University in Washington, DC at the rank of Executive in Residence in the Department of Public Administration and Policy in the School of Public Affairs, and is the Chief Business Strategist at Outward Exports, where he provides investment opportunities in the areas of agriculture, transportation, energy, health, infrastructure/ engineering to emerging markets.He is also involved in business related activities with the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI), helping to solve the worlds pressing challenges and creative positive change around the world.

PAUL BRELOFF, Managing Director of Accion Venture Lab Paul Breloff is the founding managing director of the Accion Venture Lab. He has advised CGAP (an independent research center focused on financial inclusion and housed at the World Bank) on policy and technical issues related to branchless banking and have been engaged by Root Capital, Shell Foundation, BRAC, and others on access-to-finance issues in Latin America, Asia, and Africa. Previously, Paul worked with SKS Microfinance; he has also practiced corporate law with Mayer Brown, worked as a consultant for McKinsey & Co., and worked as an advertising account executive for Leo Burnett. Paul has a bachelor of arts from Amherst College and a law degree from Yale Law School.

PRATEEK AWASHI, UNFPA Prateek Awashi Programme is an Analyst at the United Nations Populations Fund’s (UNFPA). He works to incorporate the human rights, priorities and to increase the participation of young people in policy dialogues and programmes. He represents UNFPA in the Inter-Agency Network on Youth Development which brings together 40 entities within the United Nations to increases the effectiveness and responsiveness of the United Nation on issues of youth development. Prior to join UNFPA, he used to be a chairperson and member of the Global Steering Committee of the World AIDS Campaign. He has a master in Public Administration from Columbia University and a degree in law from the University of Pune, India.

RACHEL NYARADZO ADAMS Rachel has spent the last 5 years of her career passionately building leadership capability in young African leaders both at tertiary and corporate level. Her previous work at McKinsey & Company, Johannesburg, saw her designing, implementing and managing an innovative leadership programme aimed at accelerating the leadership development of exceptional talent. The programme, the first of its kind in the Firm, achieved unprecedented success. Previous to this work, she managed a leadership and entrepreneurial programme for the Allan Gray Orbis Foundation.

Her passion for development in Africa has now led her to Yale where she is the Associate Director for Africa in the Office of International Affairs. In her role at OIA, she focuses on working with the faculty directors of the university’s Africa efforts; working with Yale faculty and students to help deepen Yale’s involvement in Africa; developing partnerships between Yale and African institutions; supporting admissions recruitment in Africa, building Yale’s alumni networks, and expanding press and social media coverage on the continent. She is based in New Haven, Connecticut but makes regular trips to several African countries.

Rachel Nyaradzo is proudly Zimbabwean. She is a graduate of Oxford University with a 14 | Masters of Science in African Studies. She is a Mandela Rhodes Scholar, a Mellon Mays Fellow, a Felix Scholar and a Desmond Tutu Leadership Fellow. She is a contributor to the Thabo Mbeki African Leadership Institute and was published in the first ever TMALI International Journal for African Renaissance Studies. She occasionally writes for the Mail & Guardian Thought Leader Blog on topics ranging from education, race relations and diversity, religion and leadership. Rachel is also interested in acting and television.

RAQUEL OREJAS Raquel is a Junior Professional Associate at the Agriculture Global Practice in the Latin America and Caribbean region at the World Bank. Here she supports project supervision and design in Uruguay, Argentina and Paraguay. Previously she has worked in Peru as a Forest Carbon Project Coordinator and held positions at Ecosystem Marketplace, Terra Global Capital LLC and the Verified Carbon Standards Association (VCS) in Washington D.C. She has also done field work in El Salvador and Brazil in microfinance and forestry projects. Before joining the development realm, she worked for the largest Spanish conglomerate INDITEX in Fribourg, Switzerland. Raquel holds a Master of Arts in International Relations and International Economics from Johns Hopkins University SAIS, and a bachelor’s degree in business from ESADE, Barcelona.

SABEEN MALIK, Senior Policy Advisor, U.S. Department of State Sabeen Malik is a Senior Policy Advisor at the Department of State, and her portfolio includes economic and entrepreneurship issues.

She received her AB from New York University, JD from the University of Illinois, College of Law, and Master of Laws in International Business and Economic Law from the Georgetown University Law Center. Sabeen joined the Department of State as a Franklin Fellow, a prestigious fellowship for mid level and senior officials.

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SERGE KAPTO, E-Governance Expert, UNDP, Serge Kapto is Policy Specialist for E-governance and Access to Information in the Democratic Governance Group of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) at its headquarters in New York. Serge started his career with the Sustainable Development Networking Programme, a UNDP pioneering initiative that played a major role in introducing Internet to many developing countries. Serge then went on to UNDESA where he remained involved in ICT for Development issues at the United Nations ICT Task Force and the Global Alliance for ICT and Development. Prior to returning to UNDP, Serge worked on ICT for Development and e-governance at the Global Centre for ICT in Parliament in Rome. Serge also covers Governance and Post-2015, as part of the UNDP team in charge of managing the United Nations global consultations on the Post-2015 Development Agenda.

SOPHIA MURADYAN, Senior Incubation Specialist at infoDev Sophia is Business Incubation Specialist at infoDev since 2012. Before joining infoDev, Sophia has worked for 10 years as a Project Manager in Enterprise Incubator Foundation (EIF), the largest ICT business incubation and innovation promotion initiative in Armenia. She was engaged in design and management of several innovative private-public projects such as the infoDev Regional Mobile Applications Lab (mLabECA), E-society for Innovation and Competitiveness project of the World Bank, the SUN Microsystems Regional Lab, the Microsoft Innovation Center and the Armenian-Indian Center for Excellence in ICT. Sophia has implemented numerous entrepreneurship and innovation promotion initiatives to provide business support and seed financing for start-ups and teams with innovative ideas and products, and has strong expertise in feasibility analysis and M&E frameworks for business incubators. Sophia holds Master’s degree in Sociology from the Yerevan State University, and has been also accredited by London School of Economics and Open | 15 University, UK.

TSEGAHIWOT BELACHEW, Ashoka’s Changemakers’ Global Digital Media Strategist Tsega Belachew, Ashoka’s Changemakers’ Global Digital Media Strategist. As a change manager and global digital media strategist (web and social media) at Ashoka: Innovators for the Public, Belachew sees great possibilities in the equalizing power of technology and in the solutions and stories from the grassroots driven by changemakers. She is especially inspired by system-focused social entrepreneurs who relentlessly transform problems in Africa and the rest of the World.

SEYNABOU SAKHO Seynabou, a Senegalese National, is currently an Adviser in the Office of the Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer of the World Bank. Prior to that she was an Economic Advisor in the World Bank Operations Vice Presidency. Her experience at the World Bank includes leadership of innovative multi-sectoral operations and analytical reports ranging from middle income countries, low income countries, FCS and small states. In particular, she led the preparation of the first ever policy loan to be granted to a city (Rio de Janeiro) as well as the first debt restructuring operation for Jamaica. Her analytical work interests have focused on fiscal decentralization and service delivery in health and education, fiscal and debt sustainability issues, as well as micro issues related to firms’ productivity, informality, and gender. Her work was published in the Journal of Development Economics, the Journal of African Economics, and the World Bank Policy Working Paper series. Prior to joining the Bank she worked in a microfinance company for women in Senegal and taught Economics at the University of Pennsylvania. Seynabou holds a Ph.D. and a MA in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania; a M.Sc. in Finance and Economics from the London School of Economics and a M.Sc. in Statistics and Economics from the Ecole Nationale de la Statistique in Paris, France DELORES MCLAUGHLIN, Senior Policy Advisor Economic Security Plan International Delores McLaughlin is the Senior Policy Advisor for Economic Security focusing on promoting economic rights of children and youth. She has more than 30 years of experience in social and economic development programming, policy and advocacy.

She joined Plan International in 1994 as the co-leader of a global initiative to build capacity for microfinance applying a business model for sustainability. Since 2007 she has been leading an effort to advance Youth Economic Empowerment (YEE) which offers support for young people to make the transition into decent work. Currently Delores is working with the World Bank and other partners to explore ways to engage Public and Private Sector actors to find solutions for increasing employment opportunities for youth.

Delores has a Master’s Degree in International Development. She is a member of the faculty of Boulder Institute of Microfinance, serves on the advisory committee for the Global Youth Economic Opportunities Conference, and is a member of the Child Youth Finance International Advisory Group.

LOLA WALKER, Senior Technical Advisor–Integrated Children Health and Social Services, USAID Health Damilola (Lola) Walker joined USAID’s Office of HIV and AIDS in April 2014 through the Global Health Fellow Program, as Senior Technical Advisor for Integrated Children’s Health & Social Services, and is based on the Orphans and Vulnerable Children’s team. Lola’s particular focus is on a recently-launched portfolio of intervention-linked studies to test the effectiveness of different integration models on key health, nutrition and development outcomes across sites in Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland and Zimbabwe. Lola has over 10 years of experience in developing, managing and advising global health programs, with 16 | a particular focus on the needs of children and adolescents affected by HIV and AIDS.

Prior to joining USAID, Lola worked for the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, the Children’s AIDS Fund, the Reach Out Mbuya HIV/AIDS Initiative in Uganda, and consulted with the Ministry of Health in Uganda. She holds a Master’s Degree in Public Health from Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and Bachelor’s degrees in Microbiology and Human Biology from Michigan State University. She is fluent in Yoruba, speaks basic French, and has extensive working with public health programs in East, West and Southern Africa.

STEFANIA PIFFANELLI, Deputy Director, UNIC Ms. Stefania Piffanelli is the Deputy Director of the United Nations Information Center (UNIC) in Washington. Ms. Piffanelli brings to the job over 20 years of experience with the UN, the academia and the private sectors. Before joining UNIC Washington, she managed the work of the UN Peacebuilding Commission and the Peacebuilding Fund in Sierra Leone both out of New York and Freetown. Previously, Ms. Piffanelli served as the Special Assistant to the UN Deputy Secretary-General and in the Executive Office of the Secretary- General under Secretaries-General Ban and Annan. She also held a number of positions in the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs in the areas of development and gender equality.

Earlier in her career, Ms. Piffanelli worked as a consultant for the UNDP Bureau for Eastern Europe and Central Asia and for UNDP Lebanon. Prior to her work with international organizations, she worked as a junior fund manager in Italy.

She holds a PhD in Economics from New York University and a graduate degree in Economics from the University of Bologna, Italy. She speaks English, Italian and French and has some knowledge of Spanish. She is an Italian citizen.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Sponsors

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Partners D.C. Africa 2.0 This Pan-African Civil Society Organization consists of 500 young emerging leaders from across the continent and it’s Diaspora. Africa 2.0 counts 27 international chapters around the world with 22 located in Africa. Defining itself as a community of like-minded, critical thinkers sharing a collective vision for Africa and a commitment to finding and implementing sustainable solutions capable of leapfrogging and fast-tracking Africa’s growth in partnership with the rest of the world.

World Bank–International Monetary Fund African Society The World Bank Group-IMF African Society is an association of Africans and friends of Africa, comprised of the staff of the World Bank Group (WBG) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Created more than four decades ago, the Society’s dual purpose is to provide support to staff of African descent and to give back to Africa. The Society’s 1,500 members include African staff in | 17 various country offices of the two organizations around the world; moreover they constitute one of the highest concentrations of African professionals in any single body in the world. In addition to excellent technical expertise, Africans in the World Bank and the IMF possess diverse, yet unique talents and socio-cultural credentials that enhance the relevance and quality of the two institutions’ contribution to global development work

Focal Point Focal Point, Inc. offers a variety of services from product design and prototyping to manufacturing and system integration. We work with industry-leading manufacturers to complement their product lines with private label products we design, produce, warehouse, distribute and service. While our expertise has been in the visual communications industry, we have served many clients from a variety of markets. We back all of our designs and products with first-class service and training.

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Yvonne Kirabo – Co-President, Genevieve Young African Society Oceane Keou Elikia Kamga Nenkam – Co-President, Antoine Ngoupou Young African Society Yemisi Ajumobi Marie Meka Iyioluwa Teleola Akinlawon Cedric Metangmo Melinda Maame Boakye Grace Aguna Deciat Celi Marie Dean Mustafa A. Animashaun Charlene D’Almeida Audrey Ifeyinwa Achonu Jaoujata Toure Samba Mbaye Laure Deffa Barry Pierrette Manfoumbe Moussodou Pilar Camacho Lopez Pipeloluwa Mabayoje Raquel Orejas Tagarro Maleele Choongo Arkiatou Boissaye Elizabeth Crespo Lanny Isimbi Isabel Shirin Enyonam Wetzel Judith Soffe Nwana Lanny Isimbi Nene Mane Mohamad Edirissa Faal Sushma Rajan

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