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Assistant Professor, Counselling Psychologist, University of Nairobi, Kenya.
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Eric Werker is the William Saywell Professor at the Beedie School of Business at Simon Fraser University. Werker’s recent research has focused on the political economy of private sector development, economic diversification in resource-rich economies, and the interface between resource projects and local and national economies. Werker is a research affiliate of the International Growth Centre and the United Nations University WIDER and has been a policy advisor to national governments and regional organizations. He earned his A.B. and Ph.D in economics at Harvard.
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Dileni Gunewardena is Professor of Economics, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. Her research focuses on human capital, gender and ethnic inequality, poverty and child nutrition. She has a Ph.D. in economics from American University, and has been a Fulbright Scholar, a Brookings Institution Echidna Global Scholar, a Global Development Network (GDN) award winner and a visiting scholar at American University’s Programme in Gender Analysis in Economics. She has consulted for the World Bank and UN agencies. She is a PEP Research Fellow and a non-residential Research Fellow at Verite Research.
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Dr. Choong Pui Yee is a Senior Lecturer with the Department of Southeast Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University Malaya. Prior to joining UM, she has worked as Senior Analyst and Program Coordinator at Penang Institute, a Malaysia think tank. She has also worked as a Senior Analyst in the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies. Her research expertise is on Malaysia domestic politics and contentious politics in the Southeast Asia region.
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PROFESSOR LARISSA McLEAN DAVIES (BA (Hons), BMus (Hons), PhD) Deputy Dean at Melbourne University Graduate School of Education, leads large-scale Teacher Education research which mobilises partnerships with Government agencies, Education Departments, and not-for-profit organisations. Her mission is to convene interdisciplinary, translational research that is taken up by education systems internationally and has long-term impact on students’ learning and opportunities.
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Assistant Professor at School of Government, Universidad de los Andes. Research Areas: Public Administration, Public Policy, Collaborative Governance.
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I am a cognitive and clinical psychologist, and Senior Lecturer in the School of Psychology and Medicine, The Australian National University. As the Director of the ANU Emotions and Health Lab, my aim is to understand questions like: How do people perceive emotion in naturalistic faces? What are the social “display rules” that govern people’s expression of emotions? How do perception and expression of emotion vary across individuals and culture? How is emotion regulation linked to mental health and wellbeing in individuals and couples?
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I'm a Senior Lecturer in and Head of the Department of Educational Studies and Leadership at the University of Ghana.
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Shravishtha Ajaykumar is a researcher. Her work focuses on integrating technology with society and strategy, with a focus on emerging technologies, CBRN deterrence, and ethics. She is currently an Associate Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation in India. She has previously worked in policy research and analysis in data privacy, geospatial technology and cybersecurity.
She has also worked in research on gender, sexuality, and culture. This culminated in her authoring "Seamingly Cultural" a book that discusses the interrelationship of fashion and society.
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Elena Verdolini is a climate economist. She is Professor of Political Economy (University of Brescia) and leader of the research group on “Sustainable Innovation and Digitalization” at the RFF-CMCC European Institute on Economics and the Environment. She is the PI of the 2D4D “Disruptive Digitalization for Decarbonization” ERC Starting Grant project, and coordinator of the AdJUST “Advancing the understanding of challenges, policy options and measures to achieve a JUST EU energy transition” Horizon Europe project. She was a Lead Author of the 6th Assessment Report of the IPCC.