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August 26, 2020
World Economic Forum Appoints New Members to Board of Trustees.
• The Board of Trustees is the guardian of the World Economic Forum’s mission and values.
Photo: Impressions from the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2020 in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, 20 January 2020. Image provided by & copyright © World Economic Forum / Valeriano Di Domenico.
Geneva, Switzerland, 26 August 2020 - The World Economic Forum appointed two new members to its Board of Trustees today. Rwanda’s Minister of Information Communication Technology and Innovation Paula Ingabire and Chief Executive Officer of AXA Thomas Buberl join the group serving as guardians of the Forum’s mission and values. The Board oversees the Forum’s work in promoting faithful global citizenship.
The Board of Trustees comprises outstanding leaders from business, politics, academia, and civil society. Its membership is divided equally between representatives of the business community and leaders from international organizations and civil society.
Paula Ingabire has served as the Minister of Information Communication Technology and Innovation of Rwanda since October 2018. Before her appointment, she was Head of ICT at the Rwanda Development Board and the Head of the Kigali Innovation City initiative. She led the implementation of National ICT programs and coordinated the creation of SMART Africa. She is part of Girls in ICT Rwanda and has worked to propel Rwanda forward in its rapid adoption of Fourth Industrial Revolution tools. In March 2020, she joined the Forum’s Young Global Leaders community.
Thomas Buberl has served as Chief Executive Officer of AXA since September 2016. He has been a member of the AXA executive committee since 2012 and held the role of Chief Executive Officer of AXA Konzern AG (Germany). Prior roles include the Chief Executive Officer for Switzerland for Zurich Financial Services and Member of the Management Board of Winterthur in Switzerland, first as Chief Operating Officer and then as Chief Marketing and Distribution Officer. In 2008, he was nominated as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.
As of 26 August 2020, the Members of the Board of Trustees of the World Economic Forum are:
- Klaus SCHWAB Chairman of the Board of Trustees, World Economic Forum
- Peter BRABECK-LETMATHE, Vice-Chairman, Board of Trustees, World Economic Forum, Chairman Emeritus, Nestlé SA, Switzerland
- H.M. Queen Rania AL ABDULLAH of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
- Mukesh AMBANI, Chairman and Managing Director, Reliance Industries, India
- Marc BENIOFF, Chair and Chief Executive Officer, Salesforce, USA
- Thomas BUBERL, Chief Executive Officer, AXA, France
- Mark CARNEY, Finance Adviser on the 26th Conference of the Parties to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- Laurence FINK, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, BlackRock, USA
- Chrystia FREELAND, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Intergovernmental Affairs of Canada
- Orit GADIESH, Chairman, Bain & Company, USA
- Kristalina GEORGIEVA, Managing Director, International Monetary Fund, Washington DC
- Fabiola GIANOTTI, Director-General, European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva
- Al Gore, Vice-President of the United States (1993-2001); Chairman and Co-Founder, Generation Investment Management LLP, USA
- Herman GREF, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Sberbank, Russian Federation
- Angel GURRÃA, Secretary-General, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
- André S. HOFFMANN,* Non-Executive Vice-Chairman, Roche Holding Ltd., Switzerland
- Paula INGABIRE, Minister of Information Communication Technology and Innovation of Rwanda
- Christine LAGARDE, President, European Central Bank (ECB)
- Jack MA, Alibaba Board of Directors, Alibaba Group, People’s Republic of China
- Yo-Yo MA, Cellist
- Peter MAURER, President, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Switzerland
- Luis MORENO, President, Inter-American Development Bank, Washington DC
- Patrice Motsepe, Founder and Executive Chairman, African Rainbow Minerals, South Africa
- L. Rafael Reif, President, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA
- David M. RUBENSTEIN, Co-Founder and Co-Executive Chairman, Carlyle Group, USA
- Mark SCHNEIDER, Chief Executive Officer, Nestlé, Switzerland
- Tharman SHANMUGARATNAM, Senior Minister of Singapore
- Jim Hagemann SNABE, Chairman, Supervisory Board, Siemens AG, Germany; Chairman, A.P. Møller-Maersk, Denmark
- Feike SYBESMA, Honorary Chairman, Royal DSM, Netherlands
- Heizo TAKENAKA, Minister of State for Economic and Fiscal Policy of Japan (2002-2006)
- Min ZHU, President, National Institute of Financial Research, People’s Republic of China
Source: World Economic Forum
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College Consensus Publishes Annual Ranking of the Best Colleges in New York 2020 and California 2020.
Photo: Sage Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. Sage Hall was built in 1875 at Cornell University’s Ithaca, New York campus. Originally designed as a residential building, it currently houses the Johnson Graduate School of Management. Image Credit: O. Bill.
CHAPEL HILL, N.C., Aug. 25, 2020 — College Consensus, a unique new college ranking website, has published its ranking of the Best Colleges in New York 2020 and Best Online Colleges in New York 2020 at their Website.
To identify the Best Colleges in New York and Best Online Colleges in New York for 2020, College Consensus combined the latest results from the most respected college ranking systems with thousands of real student reviews to produce a unique consensus score for each school. According to College Consensus founder Jeremy Alder, “College Consensus gathers the publisher rankings and student reviews from around the web and distills the results into simple, easy-to-understand scores so students can quickly and easily compare schools. It is the ranking of all rankings, so to speak.”
To help prospective New York students evaluate the higher education options that fit their individual needs, College Consensus identified the Empire State’s best-ranked colleges:
Traditional
- Cornell University - Ithaca, NY
- Columbia University in the City of New York - New York, NY
- Colgate University - Hamilton, NY
- Vassar College - Poughkeepsie, NY
- Barnard College - New York, NY
- Hamilton College - Clinton, NY
- Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art - New York, NY
- Union College - Schenectady, NY
- New York University - New York, NY
- CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice - New York, NY
Online
- Columbia University in the City of New York - New York, NY
- New York University - New York, NY
- Syracuse University - Syracuse, NY
- SUNY College at Brockport - Brockport, NY
- Stony Brook University - Stony Brook, NY
- University at Buffalo - Buffalo, NY
- Marist College - Poughkeepsie, NY
- Rochester Institute of Technology - Rochester, NY
- Canisius College - Buffalo, NY
- Molloy College - Rockville Centre, NY
New York is known as an epicenter for all things innovative. “Ranking the best colleges and universities in New York,” Managing Editor Carrie Sealey-Morris explains, “is pretty close to a fool’s errand.” With more than 200 institutions, “New York’s higher education excels in the areas where New York dominates,” including areas as far afield as theater and medicine, finance and fine arts.
Photo: Stanford University Campus. Image Credit: HD.
College Consensus has also published its ranking of the Best Colleges in California 2020 and the Best Online Colleges in California 2020.
To help prospective California students evaluate the higher education options that fit their unique needs, College Consensus identified the best-ranked colleges in the Golden State:
Traditional
- Stanford University - Stanford, CA
- Pomona College - Pomona, CA
- Claremont McKenna College - Claremont, CA
- University of California-Los Angeles - Los Angeles, CA
- University of California-Berkeley - Berkeley, CA
- Harvey Mudd College - Claremont, CA
- California Institute of Technology - Pasadena, CA
- University of California-Santa Barbara - Santa Barbara, CA
- California State University-Stanislaus - Turlock, CA
- University of California-Davis - Davis, CA
Online
- Stanford University - Stanford, CA
- University of Southern California - Los Angeles, CA
- California State University-Dominguez Hills - Carson, CA
- California State University-Northridge - Northridge, CA
- California State University-Chico - Chico, CA
- California State University-San Bernardino - San Bernardino, CA
- Mount Saint Mary’s University - Los Angeles, CA
- California State University-Fullerton - Fullerton, CA
- Fresno Pacific University - Fresno, CA
- University of San Diego - San Diego, CA
American higher education didn’t start in California, but California might have perfected it. As Managing Editor Carrie Sealey-Morris explains, “Higher education takes place on an unprecedented scale in California.” There is no other state like California, combining size, population, and diversity: “the third-largest state by land size, and the largest in population, higher education in California excels and is on par with the world’s leading educational institutions.”
Source: College Consensus
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Deutsche Bank to plant 40,000 fruit-bearing trees to support rural livelihood in Maharashtra, India.
• The fruit-bearing trees will support migrant laborers who have moved back to their villages due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Photo: Green Tree. Image Credit: Stanley Zimny.
Photo: Red fruit on a tree. Image Credit: Martin LaBar.
Mumbai, India — Deutsche Bank and Swades Foundation have announced a partnership to plant 40,000 fruit-bearing trees in the Raigad district of Maharashtra, impacting the lives of over 4,000 people living there.
The initiative marks 40 years since Deutsche Bank opened its first branch in the country in Mumbai and four years of a successful partnership with the Swades Foundation to transform the lives of tribal and other indigent families in Raigad district. The trees, which will begin bearing fruit in 3-4 years, are expected to generate an INR 6 crore annual income for the beneficiaries.
“Supporting small-scale agriculture has a significant impact on reducing rural poverty. It offers the most direct route for people in rural areas to benefit from land and labor - their principal assets,” said Kaushik Shaparia, Chief Country Officer, Deutsche Bank India. “We’re confident that our partnership with Swades Foundation will meaningfully transform the lives of people in Raigad district.”
“Deutsche Bank’s relentless efforts towards rural upliftment in India are noteworthy. We are happy to be part of the shared vision to transform and empower India at a grassroots level. Deutsche Bank has been one of our biggest supporters in rural transformation in the last four years. We look forward to celebrating many more exciting milestones together,” said Ronnie Screwvala, Founder, Swades Foundation.
Deutsche Bank’s partnership with Swades Foundation, now in its fourth year, has impacted the lives of 43,500 people in the Raigad district of Maharashtra so far and has involved the bank’s employees volunteering 2,500 hours since April 2018. Deutsche Bank has worked with Swades Foundation to touch the lives of over 10,000 rural families, providing sustainable access to clean water in homes and promoting agri-based livelihoods. Greater access to potable water alone has improved the standard of living of over 1,000 families in the district. The more judicious use of the resource has brought over 1,200 acres of additional farmland under irrigation, allowing for higher crop rotation.
Following the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, Deutsche Bank and Swades Foundation have together distributed over 11,000 grocery and daily essentials kits in rural homes in Raigad since April.
Deutsche Bank has been operating in India since 1980 with a strong presence in the businesses of corporate banking, investment banking, retail banking, private wealth management, and global business services. With close to 13,000 staff and operations across various locations in India, it is one of the leading foreign financial services providers in the country.
Source: Deutsche Bank
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