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Policy director and senior fellow of the Public Policy Institute of California. Magnus Lofstrom is policy director of criminal justice and a senior fellow at PPIC, and a visiting professor at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. Focusing on crime rates and recidivism, his recent work examines criminal justice reforms in California. His research also spans issues in immigration, education, and entrepreneurship. His research has been published in numerous academic books and journals, including Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Journal of Human Resources, Demography, Criminology & Public Policy, and Journal of Population Economics. He serves on the editorial board of Industrial Relations and was a member of then–California State Controller John Chiang’s Council of Economic Advisors. Prior to joining PPIC, he was a faculty member at the University of Texas at Dallas and the University of California, Irvine.
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Senior Research Fellow and Future Leaders Fellow at the Centre for Research in Inclusion at Southampton University. Currently leading UKRI funded research into the teaching of digital accessibility. Additional specialism in methodology, higher education, critical disability studies and new media.
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Nilza Amaral is a programme manager with the International Security programme at Chatham House. Along with experience in strategic planning and policy engagement, her areas of expertise include the conduct of war, including ethics and the transformation of warfare, with a particular focus on armed drones. She has examined the relationship between drone technology and the use of force, and, more widely, the sociology of war.
Nilza holds an MSc in International Security and Global Governance, and a a BA in Politics and Society, both from Birkbeck, University of London.
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Director of the Creative Arts Research Institute - a values informed institute researching in, through and about creative arts and design practices.
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Asanka Wijesinghe is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Policy Studies of Sri Lanka (IPS) with research interests in macroeconomic policy and international trade. He is also interested in the impact of adjustment costs of trade, gravity modelling in trade, econometrics and the trade origins of populist politics. He has undertaken efficiency analyses, particularly public spending efficiency, using parametric and non-parametric efficiency analysis approaches.
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Historian of market morality and corporate social responisibility. PhD Harvard University; currently professor and chair at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada
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Associate Professor (Practice), Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. Twenty years of public sector experience.
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Advocate Ntombi Mnyikiso B.Proc, LLB is an expert Legislative Drafter for the Government of the Republic of South Africa, with more than 20 years' experience. She is a member of the Commonwealth Association of Legislative Counsel. Adv Mnyikiso is the drafter of many complex laws, including banking, taxation, finance, mining, the National Council on Gender Based Violence and Femicide legislation and other related women empowerment laws. She was part of the first group of Prosecutors to receive specialised training to prosecute in the Specialised Sexual Offences Court when they were launched.
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Joy Nyokabi is a graduate student from Kenya with interests in Africa in governance, development and international affairs. She
is currently working on her MA in Pan African studies at Syracuse University. She also holds a B.A in International Relations and a DALF C1
diploma in French. She is the founder of a Afrika Yangu, an organization which does research and advocacy.on
issues to do with social justice, race & equality and African development. She is currently working as a Teaching Assistant in the African American
Studies department of Syracuse University.
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Dr Lilija Alijeva is Presidential Fellow at the City Law School, University of London. Her research focuses on the human rights of national, ethnic, linguistic, and religious minorities. Her current research projects focus on the way international justice institutions and International Organisations protect minorities and their rights. She is part of the Minority Rights Solidarity Network steering group, which is a network of academics and practitioners working in the field of minority rights protection.