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He is a board member of BlackRock, the UN Foundation, and the Whitaker Peace & Development Initiative. He is also founder and chairman of the World Economic Forum’s EDISON Alliance for digital inclusion, which aims to impact 1 billion lives with affordable and accessible digital solutions by 2025. 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