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With great passion, Sheila Conejos continues to promote the concept of "adapt+maintain+sustain+circulate" the built environment for a sustainable and resilient future. She is a multidisciplinary professional and academic with 25 years of experience as architect, urban planner and sustainable development specialist in Asia-Pacific. She has a PhD in Sustainable Development and Architecture and was awarded the CIOB Australasia Research Excellence Award for Doctoral Research. Sheila is an active researcher and author of a number of peer reviewed journals on urban and building sustainability.
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Raul Ferrer-Conill is an associate professor of Journalism and Media and Communication at the University of Stavanger, Norway. His research investigates digital journalism, audience engagement, gamification, and the structural changes of the datafied society. His work has been published in international journals, including Digital Journalism, New Media & Society, Journalism Studies, and Nordicom Review. He is the director of the Digital Society Research Group at UiS and the chair PolSoc Research School.
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Anas Iqtait is a Lecturer in Economics and Political Economy of the Middle East. He holds a PhD in Political Economy and an MA in International Development Policy. His research interest spans a range of areas, including: political economy, economic relations, and geoeconomics of the Middle East region; political economy dynamics shaping governance and fiscal policy of the Palestinian Authority and the Levant. Anas is a co-founder and chief editor of the ANU based Near East Policy Forum and serves as a non-resident scholar with the Middle East Institute (United States).
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Associate Professor and Head of the Business Analytics Programmes at the Singapore University of Social Sciences. Current research focuses on the applications of data mining and analytics for business and social good. Topics of interest include predictive modelling, anomaly detection, clustering, analytics project management and methodologies, etc. I have designed and taught courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, and for industry professionals and government agencies.
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Research Fellow, UNESCO CHAIR - CPAS, ANU. Rini Astuti’s research focuses on environmental and resource governance in Indonesia, including on climate change mitigation and adaptation policies. Her recent research is on transboundary haze & peatland governance. She is currently developing new research agenda on the “critical geographies of decarbonisation”. She studies Indonesian small islands as frontiers of critical material extraction for green economy agenda and traces who bears the burden and shares the benefits of global energy transitions.
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Associate Professor at University of Delaware. My research focuses on the dynamics between business, politics/institutions, and societies across the world. I am particularly interested in the role(s) of business in society, ranging from prosocial behavior in the form of CSR / responsible business to aggressive interest group advocacy. In recent years, I have become particularly interested in authoritarian populist threats to democracy: can businesspeople play a useful role in defending democracy and open societies against these threats? I believe they can.
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Over two decades in ‘marketing for a better world,’ Sameer has taught, widely published in academic outlets, reviewed, trained and consulted with government and non-profit organizations in India, Canada, Singapore, Australia, and the U.S. He is the Editor of Social Marketing Quarterly. Sameer has raised over two million dollars and published studies testing the effectiveness of audience-oriented behaviour change initiatives in various contexts, including digital fin inclusion. Sameer is open to collaborating on using behaviour change principles to influence policies and upstream stakeholders.
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Professor, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
Pittsburgh Foundation Chair for Drug Development and Immunotherapy
Co-Leader, Cancer Virology Program, UPMC Hillman Cancer Center
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
2018,7-present University of Pittsburgh, Professor
2011,7-2018,7: University of Southern California, Professor
1997,4-2011,7: University of Text Health Science Center at San Antonio, from Assistant Professor to Professor
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Man Kit (Karlo) Lei is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Georgia, USA. His research interests include social determinants of health, criminology, structural inequality, family and neighborhood studies, and quantitative methods.
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Senior Behavioral/Social Scientist for the nonprofit, nonpartisan RAND Corporation. Research areas include: homeland and national security law; regulation and policy, particularly as they relate to immigration, border security, migration, asylum and refugee processing; space governance and international law; law enforcement; and national defense; civil and criminal legislation, law, and litigation; statutory and regulatory compliance; international and customary law (including treaty-based regimes).