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Ghida Fakhry

International broadcast journalist

Ghida Fakhry is a veteran international broadcast journalist with over 25 years experience working with some of the world’s major television news networks. Before relocating to London, she was based in Washington DC where she served as Host and Executive Producer for TRT World’s flagship programs: Inside America with Ghida Fakhry, a weekly US political program and Bigger than Five, a monthly global affairs program.

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Irakli Garibashvili

Prime Minister of Georgia

Irakli Garibashvili is a Georgian politician currently serving as the Prime Minister of Georgia since 2021. He previously served as the Prime Minister from 2013 until 2015. Garibashvili began his political career in 2012 as a founding member of the "Georgian Dream" party, which won elections that same year. He also served as Minister of the Interior from 2012 to 2013 and Minister of Defense from 2019 to 2021.

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Nikol Pashinyan

Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia

Nikol Pashinyan is the Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia since May 2018.
Since 1992, he had been actively engaged in journalism. He was on the staff of Dprutyun, Hayastan, Lragir, Lragir-Or and Molorak newspapers. In 1998, he founded Oragir daily, which was closed down by a court decision in 1999 for political reasons. In 1999, he was appointed editor-in-chief of Haykakan Zhamanak daily and held the post until 2012.

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Ali Asadov

Prime Minister of the Republic of Azerbaijan

Ali Asadov is an Azerbaijani politician serving as the 10th Prime Minister of the Republic of Azerbaijan since 2019.

Born in 1956 in Baku, he graduated from secondary school No. 134 in the capital of Azerbaijan. The same year he entered the Plekhanov University of Economics in Moscow, graduating in 1978.

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Dritan Abazović

Prime Minister of Montenegro

Dritan Abazović was born on December 25th 1985, in Ulcinj - Montenegro, where he finished primary and secondary school. In 2004, Abazović enrolled at the Faculty of Political Sciences at the University of Sarajevo. He acquired the title of graduate political scientist in record time, completing a four-year faculty in just two years and seven months. He enrolled in master's studies in 2007, at the University of Montenegro, majoring in International Relations at the Faculty of Political Sciences. He defended his doctoral dissertation in the field of Political Theory, entitled "Global Politics - Ethical Aspects of Globalization" in 2019 at the Faculty of Political Sciences in Sarajevo.

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Roberta Casali

Vice-President of the Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Ms. Roberta Casali is the Vice-President for Finance and Risk Management of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). She assumed the position in January 2022.

Ms. Casali is responsible for the overall management of the operations of the Office of Risk Management, the Controller’s Department, and the Treasury Department.