Prior to Robin’s current roles, he was leading the Province of British Columbia's work on social Innovation as its Executive Director of Social Innovation.  Prior to that role, he served as the Head of Research and Strategy at The MasterCard Foundation. Before joining the MasterCard Foundation, Robin was the Executive Director of McGill University’s Institute for the Study of International Development. He also worked for more than a decade at Canada's International Development Agency (Global Affairs Canada) as its Director of Research and Director of Democratic Institutions and Conflict. Before his work at CIDA, he served as the Executive Director of Harvard University’s Native American Program and is a research associate with the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development.

Robin pursued his Masters in public administration at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government as a Fulbright Scholar and as a Government of Canada Science Policy Scholar. He also holds a Master of Science from the London School of Economics where he graduated with Distinction. Robin earned his undergraduate degree in IR from McGill University where he graduated at the top his class with High Distinction and as a McGill University Scholar.

He has advised on electricity and energy sector general policy and industry reform, energy sector market structures and trading arrangements, privatisation, PPP, energy implementation strategy, energy sector institutional regulatory and legal frameworks, energy efficiency and renewable programme, rural electricity policies, energy tariff structures and advising on Energy Funds.  He has had extensive experience in transport operations and management and on advising on transport sector reform, transport master plans, transport privatisation, PPP, and regulation, with over 40 years of experience in advising governments, international development agencies and public utilities. In particular, he has had practical experience in managing bus airports and railway operations.

He was Special Adviser on Energy to the Government of Jamaica on the early years of energy reform (1990-1995) where he was involved in two of the first IPPs to come on the market in a developing country. He served as Resident Privatisation and Regulatory Advisor to the Government of Tanzania (seconded from the UK DFID 1998 -2001) and as Resident PPP Advisor to the Government of Malawi (contacted to the World Bank, 2010). He was a Resident Advisor to BPE in Nigeria on the Nigerian electricity privatisation (2007-2014). He has worked as consultant to Adam Smith Institute, Oxford Policy Management Ltd and CPCS Ltd. He is currently a Senior Consultant to London Economics Ltd.

Dr Sampson worked as a consultant for the Commonwealth Secretariat in developing and implementing training and capacity building programs on infrastructure reforms and on regulation and was engaged by the World Bank as a resource person in the establishment of PPIAF and the Africa Regulatory Forum.  He was Executive Director of the Mona Business School, University of the West Indies from 1991-1998, where he was responsible for establishing the business school and where he lectured on public enterprise, entrepreneurship and utilities and financial market regulation.

He holds a MSc., in Marketing from the University of Lancaster, England, and a PhD in Public Utilities Economics from the University of the West Indies. He is the author of ‘End of Monopoly: Competition in Electric Utility Markets- Comparative Studies, with Pablo Spiller  ‘Telecommunications Regulation in Jamaica”, in Regulations, Institutions and Commitments: Comparative Studies in Telecommunication, eds., Brian Levy and Pablo Spiller, Cambridge University Press has been recognized as of seminal contribution significantly shaping the World Bank’s utilities regulatory policies in  the mid-1990s and with Veront Satchel, ‘Rise  & Fall of Railways in Jamaica 1845-1975’, Journal of Transport History. He was awarded Commander of the Order of Distinction (CD) by the Jamaica Government in 2006 for outstanding services to public management. He has practical experience in consulting in Jamaica, UK, Tanzania, Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, Jordan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Oman, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia, South Africa, Namibia, and India.

An economist and journalist by training, Rob joined ACET from the World Bank, where he has returned as a Director. He began his World Bank career in the Africa Region, serving as an economist in the office of the Vice President, and then as public sector specialist for Southern and Eastern Africa. He was Chief of Staff to two World Bank Presidents, James Wolfensohn and Paul Wolfowitz, and later oversaw the Bank's $2 billion annual lending programs to Pakistan and Bangladesh as Country Coordinator, including serving as interim Country Director in Bangladesh in 2009-2010.

In 2010, Rob joined the World Bank Institute as Operations Manager and later was appointed as Director for Strategy and Operations. His last position at the World Bank was Director for Operations and Strategy for Finance in the office of the World Bank Managing Director and CFO. Prior to the Bank, Mr. Floyd worked for GIC Group, a global consulting firm, and Sandler, Travis and Rosenberg, LLC, a law firm specializing in international trade issues. As a journalist in the early 1990s, he covered agricultural issues from Switzerland, Thailand and Australia, and was the agriculture reporter at the Missourian.

Rob serves on the Development Committee of the Anacostia Watershed Society (AWS) and is a Global Advisor for Agromovil, an app-based platform to help get agriculture produce to market more efficiently. He studied at the University of Missouri, American University and George Mason University. He lives in University Park, Maryland with his wife.

Previously, Klaus served as Director of the Trade and Competitiveness Global Practice at the World Bank, overseeing regional operations in Africa and the Middle East and global teams for Trade and Competition Policy as well as Innovation and Entrepreneurship. During his career at the World Bank, Klaus held various operational and corporate positions, including Director of Strategy and Operations in the Finance and Private Sector Development Network; Knowledge Strategy Adviser to the Managing Director; Manager at the Independent Evaluation Group; and Senior Country Economist. He holds degrees from Harvard University and the University of Mannheim.

Dr. Kapoor has an established track record of effectively engaging Governments in high level policy dialogue, catalyzing policy change in a variety of difficult economic and political settings and supporting development initiatives through innovative project finance. As a manager and development economist with the World Bank for over twenty years, he managed an annual portfolio of projects in excess of $1 billion. He has led numerous development initiatives in diverse country settings, ranging from fragile states like Afghanistan and Somalia, to small island economies like Mauritius and Sri Lanka, to large and fast growing economies like Bangladesh and India. Prior to joining the African Development Bank Group in 2012, he held a series of senior positions with the World Bank Group, the most recent of which included the World Bank’s Representative for Uganda and Zambia and the World Bank’s Sector Manager for its poverty reduction, economic management and governance program in Asia.

Dr. Kapoor is a member of the Executive Board of the Kukuza Project Development Company as well as the Brazil-Africa Institute.
He holds a PhD degree in Economics and an MBA degree in Finance.

Aloysius was previously Vice President for Operations at the AfDB, accountable for 14 Departments, including Regional Programs, Operations Policies, Quality Assurance, Fiduciary Oversight and Resource Mobilization & Partnerships. Prior to joining the AfDB, Aloysius worked at the World Bank for 22 years where he served in various leadership and managerial capacities. Prior to the World Bank, Aloysius worked in the UK at the Midland Bank Group Economics Department on the Debt Sustainability of African countries. He also worked at The Economist Intelligence Unit in London and taught Economics at the University of Sussex.

Aloysius holds a PhD in Economics (University of Sussex), M.Sc. Quantitative Economics (Bristol University), and B.Sc. Economics & Law (University of Wales), UK.

Yaw holds a BA in Economics from Cornell University, and an M.S. and a PhD in Engineering-Economic Systems from Stanford University.