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Education: BA in Economics, Smith College; MPhil in International Economics, Graduate Institute Geneva; MPA, Harvard University. Current role: Managing Director at the World Economic Forum, heading the Centre for the New Economy and Society and the Global Communications Group. Co-Author: Future of Growth, Future of Jobs, Global Risks and Gender Gap. Author: Fifty Million Rising (2018). Awards: BBC 100 Women (2013 and 2014); Financial Times/McKinsey Bracken Bower Prize (2014); longlisted for FT/Mckinsey Business Book of the Year (2018). Interests: economics, future of work, education and skills, gender, income inequality and technology.
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