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Institutional affiliation: Masaryk University, Faculty of Social Studies, Czech Republic
Position: assistant professor
Highest level of education attained: PhD
Area of research expertise: labor market and flexible working regimes, labor market and work-family policy (in the perspective of different actors like state, employers, and families), eldercare and childcare policies, parental/maternity/paternity leave schemes, gender inequalities in the labor market
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Paul Akrofie has over 10 years of hands-on experience in the Creative Arts Sector,
and in Design Entrepreneurship in Africa. Currently at the British Council to deliver it's Creative Arts Programme in Ghana and across SSA.He led the implementation of the World Economic Forum's Global Shapers
"Shaping the Future of Fashion' project with Fashion Revolution on
Sustainable Fashion in Accra Ghana and as a local consulting partner with PUM.nl to facilitate its 'Making Africa Work' project. He’s served as a mentor for the MPS Fashion Management programe at the Parsons School of Design New York.
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Zdenek Uherek, social anthropologist and ethnologist, director of the English Master´s study programme Sociology of Contemporary Societies at Charles University; UNESCO–MOST programme member, a Czech Committee for the UNESCO member, Editor in Chief of the Cargo Journal for Cultural and Social Anthropology. The main subject of study is migration, Czech diasporas abroad, urban anthropology, and anthropology of Europe. He recently co-edited the Palgrave monographs Diversity and Local Contexts: Urban Space, Borders and Migration (2017) and Rethinking Ethnography in Central Europe (2015).
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Brigitte Huber (Ph.D., University of Vienna) is Professor of Marketing at IU International University of Applied Sciences Munich, and external lecturer at the University of Vienna. Her research interests include science communication, social media, influencer marketing, journalism studies, and political communication.
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Disability Inclusion Expert
Consulting, Mentoring and Coaching
I bring 30 years of experience in disability rights advocacy and disability inclusion public policy and community development in the public, non-governmental, and international development cooperation sectors to my social justice and disability inclusion consulting and coaching services.
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I received my DPhil in Political Theory from the University of Oxford in 2010. Since then, I have been teaching political philosophy at Sabanci University, Istanbul. I work on issues that lie at the intersection of social epistemology and political philosophy, such as questions of justice in the distribution of knowledge and the role of science in democratic societies.
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Professor emeritus (2019-), and academic staff member (1983-2019), International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam. Degrees: M.A. (University of Cambridge, UK), Ph.D. (University of East Anglia, UK). Worked in Southern Africa 1979-89. Areas of specialization: 1. Development ethics, human development and human security, well-being; with special reference to climate change, and to migration; 2. Methodologies in public policy analysis and evaluation; especially in analysis of policy discourse and argumentation. https://www.eur.nl/people/des-gasper
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Justin Sulik is an assistant professor in the interdisciplinary Cognition, Values & Behavior lab at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. He works on the psychology of science, including the socio-cognitive drivers of science denial, the role of trust in science in individual decision making, how non-experts explain the world around them, and the value of cognitive diversity (especially neurodiversity) in collective problem solving.
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Dr. Raul M. Abril is a research fellow at KU Leuven, Public Governance Institute and an officer of the European Commission dealing with interoperability related EU policies. He is responsible for a portfolio of interoperability programs in the EC. He has been professor at several universities and been active publishing his research. He holds a doctoral degree (Brunel University, UK), an European PhD Certification (European Doctoral School on Knowledge Management, Denmark), an Ing. Sup. Informatics (UAB, Spain), and a Master in Project Management (The George Washington University, USA).
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Luciana Cingolani is Assistant Professor of Public Administration at the Hertie School and an affiliate of the Centre for Digital Governance. Her research interests include state capacity building, digital governance, inclusion in eServices and representative bureaucracies. She has supported, among others, the work of the French Development Agency, a Horizon2020 project on public procurement transparency in Europe, the OECD-Sigma initiative and the UNDP. She has a PhD from Maastricht University in the Netherlands and a Master of Public Policy at San Andrés University in Argentina.