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Lilan Dayananda is a social tech entrepreneur and co-founder and CEO of ELZIAN AGRO. He is a Commonwealth Youth Awardee for excellence in development works in 2022 and was nominated for Queen’s Commonwealth Trust Youth Award 2022. Lilan is among the top 10 Social Entrepreneurs of the Global South Development Expo. He is a successful graduate of the Silicon Valley based Founder Institute’s accelerator program. For years, his initiative organization has come up with award-winning innovative solutions that can apply to Precision Agriculture.
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I am Professor and Co-Chairperson at the Centre of Excellence in Teacher Education, Tata Institute of Social Sciences a University in Mumbai, India. I teach Philosophy of Education and Inclusive Education for Masters students and lead a national project on inclusive education and international project on comparative teacher education. I am involved in a transnational course development on Global Teacher Education Policy and Practice with three Indian Universities and a University from the UK. Along with two colleagues, I have recently initiated a South Asian Research Hub on Inclusive Education
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I am a Senior Behavioral Scientist and a community psychologist at the RAND Corporation who specializes in community capacity building and community-based participatory research and evaluation of health promotion, prevention and intervention, and community development projects.
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Eman Moustafa. I am a Research Manager at the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), Cairo, Egypt, and a Senior Economist at the Investment Policy Advocacy Division of the General Authority for Investment and Free Zones, Cairo, Egypt
I hold a Ph.D. in Economics from Kingston University London, UK, a master’s degree in Economics from Queen Mary University of London, UK, and a bachelor’s degree in Economics and Statistics from the Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University, Egypt.
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Professor of Complex Adaptive Systems. Chair of the Polder Foundation that aims to use Complexity Science and System Dynamics for a less segregated and more equal inclusive world.
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Dr Annabel Dulhunty is a Lecturer of development studies and social policy at the Crawford School of Public Policy. She is interested in comparative overseas development assistance policies and programs, especially on their impact on inequality and alignment with a feminist foreign policy agenda.
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I am an Associate Professor of Mathematics Education and Teacher Education at the University of South Florida, USA. I am an expert on innovation in clinically rich teacher preparation- and specifically on equipping teachers to meet the mathematics needs of all students. I study how teachers can use meta-processes such as professional consultation and use of research literature to inform their teaching to create more effective classrooms for students who have previously struggled with mathematics.
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Hoyu Chong is a Senior Policy Analyst at Information Technology & Innovation Foundation's Center for Clean Energy Innovation, where she focuses on federal clean energy RD&D portfolio by emission sectors. Previously, Ms. Chong was a Practice Area Lead at Beacon Economics, a boutique consulting firm where she led its Sustainable Growth and Development and Housing and Land Use practice areas. She worked heavily with geographic information system (GIS) software and data in support of economic and policy analysis related to energy, the environment, housing, land use, and transportation.
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Professor of engineering, expert in transportation and mobility, at the University of Patras. Her most recent research interests include the areas of simulation of Autonomous Vehicles, modeling of the impact of human factors on traffic and traffic safety, analysis of soft mobility and micromobility systems (pedestrians, bikes, e-scooters).
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I am an Associate Professor of Epidemiology at Indiana University. I study the health impacts of poverty alleviation programs (e.g. cash transfers, microfinance).