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Elumelu Foundation Names Reid Whitlock New CEO

Press Release/UBA Lagos, Nigeria, 16 February 2015. The board of Trustees of the Tony Elumelu Foundation announces the appointment of Professor Reid E. Whitlock as Chief Executive of the Foundation, commencing 15th February 2015. Professor Whitlock’s appointment follows Dr Wiebe Boer, the inaugural Chief Executive of the Foundation, becoming Director of Strategy at Heirs Holdings, […]

Ajay Banga at White House Cybersecurity Summit

Feb 12, 2015/MasterCard Ajay Banga, MasterCard president and CEO, will participate in the White House Summit on Cybersecurity and Consumer Protection at Stanford University tomorrow, Friday, February 13. The summit will feature remarks by President Obama and will bring together leaders from across the country who have a stake in […]

Warning—Falling (U.S. Treasury) Objects

February 12, 2015 by iMFdirect By Nigel Chalk and Jarkko Turunen The remarkable collapse in the price of oil—a key global price that has virtually halved in the space of just a few months—has received a lot of attention lately. Meanwhile, another significant shift has taken place in recent months […]