President and CEO, Pact. Formerly: Senior Adviser, World Economic Forum and the Inter-American Development Bank; Senior Fellow, Results for Development Institute; Formerly: Chief Operating Officer, Open Society Foundations; Group Managing Director, UBS; and during a 19-year career with the World Bank Group, Managing Director, World Bank, Chief of Staff, Vice-President of External Affairs, Country Director for the Caribbean Region, Head of Media and Chief Spokesperson; award-winning Program Editor and Senior Producer, BBC; worked in the British House of Commons as Political Assistant to Member of Parliament, James Callaghan. Has served on the Boards of the UBS Optimus Foundation and Swiss Sustainable Finance; and on a number of international advisory bodies and non-profits. For five years, served as Sherpa to the heads of government meetings of the G7 and G20. PhD, London School of Economics; Prize Research Fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford University.
A lack of trust in central government, politicians, media and, most recently, law enforcement is now a widespread global phenomenon. The 2022 Edelman Trust Barometer reports that: “Distru...
In the last 50 years, we’ve seen dramatic and unprecedented progress in human indicators, and the market system has served us well on so many levels. But deep fractures are beginning to s...
