Eduardo Galeano: Remembering a Forgotten Continent

In the last days of his presidency, José Mujica visited the Casmu Hospital in Montevideo to pay his respects to Uruguay’s foremost historian and poet. On April 13, Eduardo Hughes Galeano succumbed to lung cancer. A giant of progressive journalism,

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TD: Making the Environment Part of the Bank’s DNA

When Mike Pedersen joined TD Bank Group in 2007 as Group Head, Corporate Operations, he was tasked with putting an environmental strategy in place for the bank. Early on, he saw the need for full-time executive leadership to drive the

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CFI.co Meets the President and CEO of TD Bank: Mike Pedersen

As green as its corporate logo – or greener still: TD Bank Group, one of the six largest banks in North America and the first to fully offset its corporate carbon footprint, has placed the environment at the core of

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Ellen Ochoa: How Dreams Come True

Going into space is the stuff of dreams, fiction, or fantasy. Plans for space tourism may materialise in the future, but currently astronauts are a very select group numbering around 550. Growing up in California in the 1960s, schoolgirl Ellen

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Playing to Win or Playing to Survive? Urbanisation and the Knowledge Economy

It is no surprise that cities around the world have been expanding over the last few decades. The pace of this trend is breath-taking. According to the UN’s World Urbanisation Prospects, 2014 is a turning point. For the first time

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CFI.co Meets the Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Seabury Group: John Luth

John Luth thrives on turbulence. As the airline industry weathers a succession of storms – seeking refuge in consolidation, streamlined operations, and peak efficiency – the former CFO of Continental Airlines offers winning formulae to troubled carriers. Keeping airlines aloft

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CFI.co Meets the CEO of Casinos Austria International: Alexander Tucek

Battling the odds – an economic crisis, the surge in online gambling, and indoor smoking bans – Alexander Tucek has deftly managed to come out ahead. The CEO of Casinos Austria International, a gaming corporation with a global footprint and

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CFI.co Meets the MD of Lusitania Vida: Maria Manuela Rodrigues

A graduate in Applied Mathematics from the Lisbon Faculty of Sciences, Maria Manuela Rodrigues began her professional career as an actuary in the life sector of the major Portuguese insurance company A Mundial in the 1970s. Here, she was able to

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CFI.co Meets the CEO of Hellenic Bank: Bert Pijls

In late 2014, Bert Pijls arrived in Cyprus on a mission to entrench Hellenic Bank as a key player in the nation’s economy. Mr Pijls came exceptionally well prepared for the job at hand: his international banking career took him

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CFI.co Meets the CEO of Professional Traders: Sushant Buttan

Sushant Buttan is a successful entrepreneur and businessman with over a quarter century’s worth of experience in international business. With a background in computer engineering, he started a company based out of India in the early 1990’s with a small

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