He has negotiated several partnerships with e-commerce leaders around the globe and initiated the entry of PayPal in Morocco to promote e-commerce and cross-border business. His prior international experience includes roles in financial and management consulting for Roland Berger Strategy Consultants and Surveyer, Nenniger & Chenevert Consulting Engineers (SNC Lavalin). He holds a master’s degree in international business from Hautes études commerciales de Paris (HEC Paris) and an Executive Education Program in Launching New Ventures from Harvard Business School.
Gabriela co-founded and set up the career mentoring program of the International Young Women Partnership, a volunteer network to further women’s careers, to showcase highly accomplished female professionals and to promote career information sharing among women. She also worked as a journalist in foreign affairs and new media for ZDF German Public Television. In 2008, she produced and directed a documentary on the children of Bolivian emigrants and the human cost of migration.
He was also a national election observer under Community Action for Popular Participation during Nigeria’s 2011 elections. Bako received several awards and recognitions that include a Ford Foundation International Fellowship for a master’s degree in communication and development studies at Ohio University in 2008, and an invitation to the White House to attend President Barack Obama’s Forum for Young African leaders in 2010.
Her main professional experience was acting as policy counselor attaché to the economic advisor of His Majesty King Mohammed VI of Morocco, where she contributed to several projects and policy reforms mainly in economic development, education and infrastructure. Hind started her career in France as a financial analyst at PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PwC). She completed a master’s in business administration at École Supérieure des Sciences Économiques et Commerciales (ESSEC) in France in 2007 and a master’s in public administration at Harvard University in 2013.
He received his bachelor’s degree in engineering and a master’s degree in mechanical computer-aided design at the Mohammadia Schools of Engineers, Mohammed 5th University of Rabat. He is currently conducting research on gear dynamic behavior modeling in the same university. His forthcoming publications include “Use of dynamic behavior criteria for gear shape optimization” and “FEM discretization error effects on gear meshing stiffness.”
He campaigned to transition U.S. colleges and universities to clean and renewable energy supplies. Quentin’s previous experience includes working in the United States Congress and serving as a board member for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Quentin received a bachelor’s from Howard University.
Prior to his position at Resource America, Inc., he was a proprietary trader at Morgan Stanley, where he ran the collateralized debt obligations-related business within the Global Proprietary Credit Group. Mohammed is also a lecturer at Ecole Centrale Paris, same university where he graduated from with a master’s in applied mathematics. He also holds an advanced degree (DEA) in economics and finance from University Panthéon Sorbonne (Paris I).
Previously, Blair worked on issues of post-conflict and fragile states at the World Bank, and in 2011, was selected as a UN fellow for the Middle East and North Africa. In 2012, he won the Johns Hopkins Outstanding Recent Graduate Award and was chosen as one of the top “99 under 33” Foreign Policy Leaders by Diplomatic Courier magazine. In 2013, Blair was selected by American Express as one of 12 global non-profit leaders to be part of the NGen leadership development program. He is also a Fellow at the Royal Society of Arts and a BMW Foundation Young Leader.
She joined the SIIS in 2005 as the deputy director of Department of Research Management and International Exchanges. Her academic interests include the European Neighborhood Policy and European relations with East Asia. Xiao obtained her Ph.D. from the Shanghai International Studies University in 2009, her master’s from the University of Birmingham in 2004, and her bachelor’s from Wuhan University in 2002.
With an educational background in industrial design and development studies, her research and work has focused on the role of technology and information and communications technologies (ICT) in sustainable development; natural resource management; community-based leadership initiatives; and the role of ICTs in sustainable development. She also recently launched Emé Designs, a boutique branding and design agency.
