Kenya Association of Manufacturers’ CEO, Betty Maina was appointed
to a 26-person panel by UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday.
Betty is among a strong panel that consists of a former head
of state, a queen and a Nobel Peace prizewinner tasked with recommending new
social and environment goals in the world.
The panel has a year to come up with a new bold development
vision for the 193 UN member states serving as a replacement for the Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs) at the end of 2015.
Here is the 26-person
panel:
- Queen Rania of Jordan
- German former president Horst Kohler
- Japan’s former prime minister Naoto Kan
- 2011 Nobel Peace prizewinner Tawakel Karman
- South Africa’s Graca Machel
- Mayor of Istanbul Kadir Topbas
- Nigeria’s finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
- East Timor’s finance minister Emila Pires
- Mexico’s foreign minister Patricia Espinosa
- South Korea’s foreign minister Kim Sung-Hwan
- Colombia’s foreign minister Maria Angela Holguin
- Dutch Chief Executive officer of Unilever Paul Polman
- Kenya Association of Manufacturers Chief Executive officer Betty Maina
- Head of Economic Anaylsis Unit for Benin government Fulbert Gero Amoussouga
- President of Brazil’s Institute for Applied Economic Research Vanessa Petrelli Correa
- Former vice foreign minister for Chine Wang Yingfan
- President of the Cuban Agency of Environment, Gisele Alonso
- Former director general of the French Development Agency Jean-Michel Severino
- Professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Abhijit Banerjee
- Development commissioner for European Commission and former Latvian minister Andris Piebalgs
- Economic advisor to President Vladimir Putin Elvira Nabiullina
- Swedish minister for International Development Gunilla Carlsson
- Chairman of the US Center for American Progress John Podesta
- President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono of Indonesia
- Liberia’s President Ellen Johnson
- Britain’s Prime Minster David Cameron
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