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Born in Trinidad & Tobago and raised in Queens, New York, Sadé recently completed her second masters in cognitive neuroscience at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and continues to serve at the university as a Presidential Fellow. Committed to finding solutions to today’s most urgent problems, Sadé’s research explores poverty, economic mobility and class through the lens of neurocognition, socio-linguistics and education. Prior to Harvard, Sadé spent 5 years working in post-secondary education including 3 amazing years in Abu Dhabi and Dubai serving U.S. institutions in the Middle East instructing first year students and serving as an academic advisor. A firm believer the work of equity, diversity and inclusion, Sadé is passionate about creating a supportive, informative, and engaging experience that celebrates the intersectionality and nuance of identity. In Sadé non-existent free time, she enjoys brunches, soca music, flirting with vegetarianism and unpacking the Myer-Briggs/Strengths Quest results of anyone that would allow!

Prior to that he was a managing partner of Capital Trust S. A. , where he remains a senior advisor. At Capital Trust, Dr. Aburdene’s focus was developing strategic relationships with private equity funds such as Blackstone, Quadrangle, Perseus, Centre Partners and the Trident Funds Group. He is a member of the New York Council on Foreign Relations, the International Advisory Board of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, the Suffolk University Board of International Advisors, the Advisory Board of the Rand Center for Middle East Public Policy, the Advisory Committee of The Sadat Lecture For Peace and the Advisory Board of Search for Common Ground. Dr. Aburdene also serves on the Boards of America-Mideas. Dr. Aburdene received his Ph. D. from Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, specializing in oil economics.

As business advisor to several of Africa’s major companies and public institutions, Didier Acouetey has built up an extensive network of contacts in the African business and political community. Further, Didier Acouetey is Vice-President of “Groupe Initiative Afrique”, a Think Tank that gathers top African economic and political decision makers. He is also member of other active organizations such as Africa 2. 0 and Aspen Institute. He is also the promoter of the ‘Youth Excellency Program’, an organization that operates in different African countries to promote Young Africans Leaders. In November 2000, he has co-founded the first Africa South East Asia Chamber of Commerce in Singapore. In 2014, Didier received the African Entrepreneur Award of the Year in France. Didier Acouetey is a graduate from the Arts et Métiers school in Paris, and holds a Bachelor degree and a MBA from ESCP EAP.

She is also a senior research associate at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at the University of East Anglia (Norwich, U. K. ) and a research associate at the Institute for European Environmental Policy in London and Brussels. Her current research interests include EU-Africa relations in the field of environment and natural resources, policy integration and coordination, and transnational networks. Ms. Adelle also has considerable research experience in the governance aspects of policy level (regulatory) impact assessment, especially with regards to its potential to integrate sustainable development into the policy making process. She is co-editor (with Andrew Jordan) of Environmental Policy in the European Union: Contexts, Actors and Policy Dynamics (2012).