Paranjoy Guha Thakurta is director of the School of Convergence at the International Management Institute in Delhi.

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According to Colin Chartres, who heads the International Water Management Institute, we can expect more extreme weather.

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According to a study by Frank Rijsberman, director-general of the International Water Management Institute in Colombo, Sri Lanka, improving the delivery of clean water and sanitation to the poor would be a highly cost-effective way to use additional aid to developing countries.

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Before coming back to Boston College (I am a proud alum), I spent over ten years at the International Institute for Management Development (IMD) in Lausanne, Switzerland simply the best executive education institute in the world leading executive education programs and founding their global Executive MBA program.

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Simon Johnson is a professor at MIT Sloan School of Management and a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.

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