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Nishan Degnarain

Chair, World Economic Forum Oceans Council

Bio Current as of August 19, 2016

Degnarain holds degrees in Economics from Cambridge University and Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Formerly with the UK Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit; then management consultant advising governments and companies in Africa on strategy. Degnarain is the Co-Founder of Harvard’s Africa Policy Journal, Harvard University’s first public policy journal with a focus on Africa. He is the Chair on Global Agenda Council on Oceans, World Economic Forum. Economic Adviser to Mauritius on the development of a long-term economic transformation programme to move Mauritius from a middle-income to a high-income country, as well as Africa Strategy.