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I am a political scientist and international development professional with two decades of experience in academia, applied policy research, and international research management. I have spent about a decade with the United Nations (UNU-WIDER) and previously worked with Harvard, MIT, and the World Bank. My projects and publications focus on inequality and inclusion, ethnic and identity politics, the state and state-building, development cooperation, and governance and democracy.
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I am a social anthropologist ( PhD in International Development from University of East Anglia, UK) and work on migration, youth mobility and gender issues in rural and semi-urban communities in North India. I have recently completed a Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada funded project on Covid-19 and Punjabi Migration. I was part of a comparative project on family resilience and well-being across low-income communities in Kenya, London and India. I am interested in applied research that builds on interdisciplinary insights and is oriented towards social impact.
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Professor of Complexity Science, University of Potsdam, Germany
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Rita is an award winning business leader 'making the world a better place' through her work as a Tech Founder at Granula.AI and Managing Director at VIZON Research Limited, Nigeria’s leading market research company. She is a Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women and Cambridge Judge Business School scholar with over 14 years of experience in Macroeconomic Policy, Software Development, Data Science and Marketing.
She is a super brilliant lady who develops other leaders as a mentor. A certified strategy expert, Rita is widely acclaimed for her successes in driving organizational growth.
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Mr Mikatekiso Kubayi is a researcher at the Institute for Global Dialogue associated with UNISA (IGD). He is also a fellow at the Institute for Pan African Thought and Conversation (IPATC) at the University of Johannesburg (UJ) as well as a PhD Candidate, also at UJ. He is an avid researcher on Power and its dynamics in the international system and specialises in the global political economy of finance. The title of his PhD research is ‘The Role of the NDB as a Development Finance Institution in Support of the BRICS Reform and Development Agenda’. He previously worked as Political Advisor
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Lakshmi Sampath Goyal is the Chief Executive Officer at Centre for Civil Society, a think tank in New Delhi, India.
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I'm Professor of Urban Management & Planning & Director of the Cities Research Institute at Griffith University, based in South East Queensland, Australia. I'm a planner by training and an active member of the Planning Institute of Australia. Before moving here in 2007, I was Head of the School for Policy Studies at the University of Bristol & formerly a member of its School for Advanced Urban Studies. My research interests include the professional lives and values of planners, the theory and practice of public participation and theoretical understandings of policy-making & implementation.
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Professor at Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) in Centre for Study of Developing Societies, School of Development Studies.
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Pradeep Ramavath J is an Associate Professor with The Centre for Livelihood and Social Entrepreneurship (CLSE), School of Social Work (SSW), Tata Institute of Social Sciences(TISS), Guwahati.
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Şahan Savaş Karataşlı is an Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro.