She is a non-executive director of the Efficiency and Reform Board at the Cabinet Office and the Government Digital Service.

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Standard Bank has 30 bankers in Beijing now, as well as a main board director in an office close to ICBC's, who help clients of the Chinese bank interested in expanding in Africa.

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The meeting will open with welcome addresses by Vassya Bankova, chair of RSC, Mario Scalet, Head of Science unit - UNESCO Venice Office, and Berhanu Abegaz, Executive Director - African Academy of Sciences and vice chair of the Consultative Board - International Basic Sciences Programme (IBSP).

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